Louise Michelle Bombèr

The Handbook of Transitions brings together in one book some of the key passages on change and transitions from Louise Michelle Bombèr’s best loved writing, updated for today’s demands and uncertainties. So that when you are thinking about transitions a child or young person may be facing, or if you have recognised that a child or young person you know is generally struggling with transitions at the moment, you’ll readily find thoughts and ideas to help you. Themes include the need for a deep sense of felt safety, through access to consistent, reliable, empathic adults, and a safe base: structure, issues such as power, choice and control, timing, transitional objects and rituals, interruptions, moving school, handling exclusions, and much more. You’ll also find thoughts around what these pupils need from the adults around them to support them to navigate transitions.

Louise Michelle Bombèr, Jennie Fellows, Louise Kilshaw, Luke Palmer, Tamsin Lotter and Catherine Michell

Louise Michelle Bombèr, Kim Golding And Sian Phillips

Louise Michelle Bombèr

Louise Michelle Bombèr

Inside I’m Hurting provides educational professionals with a much-needed classroom handbook of new strategies, practical tools and the confidence for supporting these children from an attachment perspective, thus promoting inclusion in the school system. Contents include: how attachment difficulties can affect a child’s ability to learn; providing an ‘additional attachment figure’ in schools; the benefits and challenges of getting alongside children who have experienced trauma and loss; transitions during the school day; permanency and constancy; being explicit; regulating arousal levels; handling conflict; wondering aloud; lowering the effects of shame; working with transition from primary to secondary phase; developing effective home/school partnership (includes a photocopiable initial meeting prompt card); providing staff support; recommendations for future action.

Louise Michelle Bombèr

What would a genuinely supportive school day look like in real practice, for children who have experienced attachment difficulties and developmental vulnerability? What are the core features of an attachment-friendly school? How can we promote inclusion and positively affect learning outcomes amongst pupils in need, at risk, in care and adopted? Loiuse Bombèr, teacher, therapist, trainer and author of the critically acclaimed number one selling book on behavioural difficulties, Inside I’m Hurting, draws on her extensive experience in working with these children and young people.

Louise Michelle Bombèr

Attachment aware school sSeries: Boxed set of 5 pocket guides.

Book 1: The key adult in school.
Book 2: The senior manager in school.
Book 3: The key teacher in school.
Book 4: Team pupil in school.
Book 5: The parent and carer in school.

Louise Michelle Bombèr & Daniel A. Hughes

The way we teach our pupils and the way we run our schools is under scrutiny right now. In the midst of all the change going on, we often end up losing sight of the educative tool that is the most important of all – ourselves! Bomber and Hughes’ book gives educators permission to engage with pupils relationally. They provide alternative ways to the kinds of behaviourist models, fear-based approaches and increased levels of power, authority and control still exercised in many schools at present, which disturb already troubled pupils and further prevent them from accessing school.

Dr Bryn Williams

When family courts are making decisions about the best interests of children in legal proceedings there are often two conflicting questions posed in order to determine good outcomes: (i) Is change possible in the family within the timescales for the child? and (ii) Do the parents have the capacity to change? This terminology is used as though these two concepts were clearly defined and well-evidenced. With the move away from reliance on expert evidence in the court arena there is a need to provide practitioners in the social care and legal professions with a framework for formulating how the child s best interests can be met within their timescales and whether capacity to change is likely.

Louise Michelle Bombèr

When children from insecure backgrounds become adolescents, the challenges they experience themselves and present for those around them can get a lot harder to sort out, before the teenager can fully integrate into society. These adolescents can quickly acquire ‘bad kid’ or ‘anti-social’ labels. They may form attachments by joining gangs, but in doing so, further alienate themselves from other more constructive options on offer.The contributors to this much needed book have all worked successfully on the front line with teenagers whose ability to make healthy relationships, or to find learning exciting or even possible, has been severely compromised by their past experiences of trauma, neglect and abuse.

Each expert practitioner offers practical strategies, underpinned by attachment theory and their own extensive experience, to enable teachers, psychologists, therapists and social workers to reach out to young people in new ways, establishing genuine connection and real possibilities for learning and hope