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Authors: Eliane Whitehouse, Warwick Pudney
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Category: Book

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Pages: 80
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ISBN: 0865713499
Dewey Decimal Number: 305
EAN: 9780865713499
ASIN: 0865713499

Publication Date: July 1, 1998
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Product Description
A Volcano in My Tummy: Helping Children to Handle Anger presents a clear and effective approach to helping children and adults alike understand and deal constructively with children's anger. Using easy to understand yet rarely taught skills for anger management, including how to teach communication of emotions, A Volcano in My Tummy offers engaging, well-organized activities which help to overcome the fear of children's anger which many adult care-givers experience. By carefully distinguishing between anger the feeling, and violence the behavior, this accessible little book, primarily created for ages 6 to thirteen, helps to create an awareness of anger, enabling children to relate creatively and harmoniously at critical stages in their development.

Through activities, stories, articles, and games designed to allow a multi-subject, developmental approach to the topic at home and in school, A Volcano in My Tummy gives us the tools we need to put aside our problems with this all-too-often destructive emotion, and to have fun while we're at it.

Elaine Whitehouse is a teacher, family court and private psychotherapist, mother of two and leader of parenting skills workshops for eight years. Warwick Pudney is a teacher and counsellor with ten years experience facilitating anger management, abuser therapy and men's change groups, as well as being a father of three. Both regularly conduct workshops.

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Just what I needed! July 23, 2009
Lowly Peon (Anchorage, AK)
This book gives great, simple imagery for kids to put with their behaviors and feelings. I picked this up in preparation for my first ever anger management group (I'm a therapist who works with kids), and was so impressed.

It really helped too that when I bought it Mt. Redoubt in Alaska was at risk of erupting so kids in school knew ALL about how volcanoes worked and could really connect it to themselves!

4 out of 5 stars

Helpful book to read to children January 19, 2009
Liana Lowenstein (Toronto, Canada)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

I am a social worker and I have read this book to many of my clients. It is a helpful resource to help children appropriately express anger. Readers may also be interested in the following books:

Assessment and Treatment Activities for Children, Adolescents, and Families: Practitioners Share Their Most Effective Techniques

Creative Interventions for Troubled Children & Youth

More Creative Interventions for Troubled Children and Youth

How to Take the Grrrr Out of Anger

Hot Stuff to Help Kids Chill Out: The Anger Management Book

3 out of 5 stars

not really for counseling January 13, 2009
J. Dembeck (Texas)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I am a counselor in private practiced, and purchased this book as a resource to help some of my young clients. It does include some good materials, but honestly is geared much more toward a classroom or school group setting. A few of the parents of my clients are teachers - they love it!

3 out of 5 stars

A real help when working with children July 26, 2008
Patricia McGuire MD FAAP (Cedar Rapids, IA)
8 out of 11 found this review helpful

I am a developmental and behavioral pediatrician, who has worked with children for many years on issues of emotional control. I have training in hypnosis to help children learn to envision their emotions, the behaviors of their emotions, and how to become the boss of their emotions. I have found this book to be an excellent adjunct to helping them with the idea of visualization of how anger and axiety affect them.

I really feel that people working with children exhibiting anger, should review this book to understand how anxiety might look depending on the child. Research has shown that many angry children (and adults) reach that behavior from anxiety that keeps building up until they need to address it some way.

4 out of 5 stars

Written for teachers/counselors more than parents April 22, 2008
Learning All The Time (USA)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful

The premise of the book is that anger is okay and natural, and you do not need to feel ashamed or scared when you are angry. You can talk about your anger, and try to physically calm your body, but you cannot be abusive and hurt yourself, others, or property.

If you are a parent hoping to help a child with anger issues, this is probably not the best book for you. It is basically a series of lesson plans designed for teachers/counselors to use when teaching students about anger and constructive ways to manage their anger.

OTOH, I do plan to adapt a few of the lessons for my family. There are a few useful stories and worksheets that could reinforce some of the messages I am trying to get through to my children, such as: using "cold water" words to diffuse someone else's anger; figuring out "what lit the fuse" for an outburst of anger; slowly escalating your words "using your muscles" to explain when someone is bothering you, rather than exploding all at once; and coming up with "safe ways" to express anger, among others.

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