Welcome to the world of the homunculi! The homunculi are miniature agents with problem solving missions and special gadgets who live inside the brain and help out with distressing feelings and behaviours. Now adapted for use in the classroom, as well as pairs and individuals, this practical second edition allows you to use this fun CBT-based activity with children and young people aged 7-16. This well researched approach is proven to help children who have difficulty identifying troubling feelings such as anger and fear and can be used in a variety of potentially distressing situations including bullying or tricky transitions from primary to secondary school. Complete with a large format skull poster, character and storyboard templates and downloadable record sheets this unique resource includes everything needed to get started on making stories cartoons or videos. Additional online resources show you how the programme was put in action in real-life individual and classroom settings, showcasing how the weirdly wonderful homunculi characters and stories created by children can come to life.
Anne Greig is an educational psychologist, accredited CBT practitioner and honorary lecturer at Dundee University. Anne has developed expertise in the areas of autism, psychotherapy and mental health. She is on the editorial board of the BPS Journal Educational and Child Psychology. She is also part of a group of psychologists working alongside colleagues in Bethlehem to create counselling approaches in schools. She works as a clinical practitioner at the National Diagnosis and Assessment Service for Autistic Spectrum Disorders Tommy MacKay is a psychologist working in education, child psychology, health psychology, neuropsychology and psychotherapy. Tommy has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the British Psychological Society. He is the clinical director of the National Diagnosis and Assessment Service for Autism Spectrum Disorders and Co-Founded the National Centre for Autism Studies and post-graduate training programme at the University of Strathclyde.
2nd edition of the Homunculi Approach to social and Emotional Wellbeing extended to be used for the whole classroom and mainstream schools, as well as pairs and individuals to build emotional and social resilience with the help of problem-solving agents and special gadgets for 7-16-year olds
•1st edition (978 1 84310 551 0) published in 2013 still sells 400 copies a year with the new edition adapted for mainstream schools with the whole classroom approach
•The authors who developed the programme frequently train head teachers and teachers in schools across the UK and have presented the approach to over 5000 professionals is 2009
•Includes unique bonus resources such as videos created by children in classrooms using the homunculi approach
