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Helping Children Who are Anxious or Obsessional & Willy and the Wobbly House

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Helping Children Who are Anxious or Obsessional & Willy and the Wobbly House is a practical guidebook paired with a beautifully illustrated storybook. It supports teachers, parents, and professionals in helping children aged 4-12 to understand and connect with unresolved feelings influencing their behaviour. The storybook follows Willy, a boy who finds the world an unsafe and wobbly place, and his neighbour Joe, who is overly orderly and struggles to enjoy life. Together with the Puddle People, they embark on adventures to overcome their anxieties and rigid routines, discovering more fulfilling ways to live.
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Ideal for parents, teachers, and professionals working with children aged 4 to 12 who experience anxiety, obsessional behaviour, or difficulties managing emotions.

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The guidebook is intended to help children who are insecure or worry too much; suffer from phobias or nightmares; find it difficult to concentrate to let go and have fun; have suffered a trauma; and are worryingly good or seem like little adults. Willy and the Wobbly House is a story for children who are anxious or obsessional.

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This practical guidebook, with a beautifully-illustrated storybook, enables teachers, parents, and professionals to help children aged 4-12 connect with unresolved feelings affecting their behaviour.

This is a guidebook to help children who:

  • are insecure or worry too much
  • suffer from phobias or nightmares
  • find it difficult to concentrate, to let go and have fun
  • have suffered a trauma
  • are worryingly good or seem like little adults
  • use order and routine as a way of coping with 'messy' feelings
  • retreat into dullness as a way of managing their being in the world
  • develop obsessive-compulsive behaviour in order to ward off their too-powerful feelings

Willy and the Wobbly House is a story for children who are anxious or obsessional. Willy is an anxious boy who experiences the world as a very unsafe, wobbly place where anything awful might happen at any time. Joe, the boy next door, is too ordered and tidy to be able to ever really enjoy life. Follow their adventures with the Puddle People who help them break out of their fixed patterns and find far richer ways of living in the world.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780863884993

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Multiple-component retail product

Date Published: 31 January 2001

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Speechmark Publishing Ltd

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Nicky Armstrong

Audience: Primary and secondary education, Professional and scholarly, Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 297.0mm

Weight: 420g

Pages: 100

About the Author

Dr Margot Sunderland is Director of Education and Training at The Centre for Child Mental Health London, Honorary Visiting Fellow at London Metropolitan University and Integrative Child Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Trainer with over two decades of experience in working with adults, teenagers and children. She is a First Prize award winning author, with 20 books in child mental health, published in nineteen countries.

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