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This accessible resource presents guidelines for creating an emotionally and socially healthy school and offers case studies that illustrate how good practice improves behavior and promotes inclusion.
Promoting Calmness, Anger Management and Stress Reduction
Promoting Calmness, Anger Management and Stress Reduction
This chapter sets out a range of tried and tested approaches to promoting calmness, conflict resolution, anger management and stress reduction. As massage is one of these techniques, it also includes an example of safe touch policy.
We also need to promote the emotional state, such as calmness, a sense of well-being, and feeling safe and valued, that make it easier to learn. If learners arrive in, or get into, a stressed state it is well worth taking the time to de-stress them through relaxation techniques or a physical activity. (Weare, 2004: 5)
Circle Time
Circle time is a proactive creative approach, which is used to promote positive relationships and behaviour within the school. To ...
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