Family and Parenting - Emotional Health Academy

Websites

Action for Children 

Down to earth parenting advice you can trust, including free and confidential live chat with a parenting coach.

Family Lives 

A national family support charity providing help and support in all aspects of family life.

Separated Families

Information and advice for everyone affected by family separation to help bring better outcomes for children.

Gingerbread

Supporting single parent families. 

Getting Help

Family Hubs

Offer a range of services for families with young children.
 

Home Start West Berkshire

Helping families with young children through challenging times.
 

West Berkshire Local Offer

Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND) local offer. 

Books

Brain-Body Parenting: How to Stop Managing Behaviour and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids | Mona Delahooke

Parenting guidance based on an approach that considers the essential role of the entire nervous system, which produces children's feelings and behaviours.

Dinosaurs Divorce | Marc Brown

A picture book to help young people and their families deal with the anxieties that may arise when divorce occurs.

The Truth About Children and Divorce: Dealing with the Emotions So You and Your Children Can Thrive | Robert Emery

Robert Emery applies his 25 years experience as a researcher therapist and mediator to offer parents a new road map to divorce.

The Divorce Journal for Kids | Sue Atkins

This journal gives children aged 7+ a safe place to express their feelings about divorce and the resulting changes, so that they can start to understand them.

Blame My Brain: the Amazing Teenage Brain Revealed | Nicola Morgan

A comprehensive and fully updated guide to the biological mysteries that lie behind teenage behaviour.