Healthy Schools: understanding behaviour
All behaviour is a communication. Positive adult-child relationships can support emotion regulation and increase resilience and wellbeing. These resources are helpful to foster positive interactions and understand more about co-regulation.
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For families
Use these resources to encourage connection and closeness through joint family activities: - Haringey Mental Health Support Team's 14-page tool supports parents and care-givers. Subjects covered include promoting emotionally aware parenting, conversations, ‘holding’ or ‘containing’ the space for children and young people to feel emotionally safe:
- Share this document from Educational Psychology if a family is experiencing issues with a young person:
For teachers
- This 1-page flexi-table can be used by teachers or families to help children and young people improve achievement by supporting time-management and structure: Flexi-table (PDF, 100KB)
- This Anchor Approach resource helps adults interpret what children do and say and suggests strategies to try to improve communication: Hear and Say in all Universal Needs (PDF, 348KB)
We've also created a series of documents to support Emotionally Friendly Communication:
- Overview: how and why
- Reduce conflict and stress
- Encourage positive conversations
Primary books
Books for young children that explore feelings and behaviour:
- The Bad-Tempered Ladybird by Eric Carle
- Angry Arthur by Hiawyn Oram
- Bad Mood Bear by Hiawyn Oram
More resources
Some behaviours can be eased by better emotion regulation and good mental health. Check our pages on Emotion regulation and mindfulness.
Page last updated:
May 17, 2022