Child Development

The information provided on these pages is intended for patients already under the care of the Healthy Family Team.

 

Play It's More Than You Think

This Leaflet contains tips on how to make the most of play time as well as learning and developing important life skills along the way.

 

Separations and changes in the early years: Understanding the anxieties of parents and children from birth to four years (Association of Child Psychotherapists)

When babies are born they leave the warm and comfortable world of the womb and enter an unknown world. It is their first experience of separation and the beginning of a lifelong series of steps and challenges. 

 

Understanding Childhood (The Childhood Psychotherapy Trust)

Understanding Childhood is a series of leaflets written by experienced child psychotherapists to give insight into children's feelings and view of the world and help parents, and those who work with children, to understand their behaviour.

 

Understanding Childhood: key stages in your child's emotional development from birth to adulthood (Association of Child Psychotherapists - ACP)

Understanding Childhood is a series of leaflets written by experienced Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists to give parents, grandparents, carers and professionals additional insight into children's feelings and view of the world and to help make sense of their behaviour.