Family Transitions

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

 

Dad at Home

This site offers great help and advice for dads at home.

 

Bereavement: Helping parents and children cope when someone close to them dies (Association of Child Psychotherapists)

This leaflet suggests ways that adults can help children to come to terms with grief and bereavement.

 

Divorce and Separation: Helping Children and Parents to Cope (Understanding Childhood - Association of Child Psychotherapists)

This information may help you to understand how you and your children may be feeling and to think about what may be best for all of you when relationships go seriously wrong or break down.

 

Fathers: Understanding the Vital Role that Fathers, and Father Figures, Play in Children's Emotional Development (The Association of Child Psychotherapists)

Dads really do matter. Children need fathers - just as they need mothers - to love them, to be interested in them and to respond to their needs, making them feel valued and understood.

 

Grandparents and the extended family: Understanding the importance of wider family relationships for children and their parents (Association of Child Psychotherapists)

This leaflet will explore the ways that grandparents in all kinds of families can make a difference to children's lives and what a 'grandparental' relationship means.

 

Sibling rivalry: the arrival of a new brother or sister (Understanding Childhood - Association of Child Psychotherapists)

This information helps you to understand and manage sibling rivalry.