“It’s not about getting the answer you want, but listening to the one you get.” That’s what this new animated video produced by Aardman on behalf of Gloucestershire’s Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC) , hopes to teach Gloucestershire’s young people, as part of a commitment to tackle Violence and Intimidation against Women…
TIC+ Counsellor Morgan Koronis discusses the use of creativity in counselling and the power storytelling can have on young people’s mental health in this piece for International Children’s Book Day. An Alternative Means to Expression With a background in dramatherapy, I bring a lot of my own passion for the intentional healing power of creativity…
Alicia Bell, Assistant Psychologist at TIC+, explores the relationship between disordered eating and social media, and the impact it may have on young people’s eating behaviours in her article for Eating Disorder Awareness Week 2022. Within recent years there has been a notable rise in the number of young people demonstrating disordered eating behaviours and…
Written by Memoona Ahmed for TIC+. When I was a teenager (not so long ago, I might add), I tried to be a lot of different people. I tried to be the smart one, the confident one (I read a lot of books with cutthroat women protagonists), the ‘popular’ one and sometimes the quirky one!…
The challenges of this year have been hugely disruptive for children and young people, causing increasing anxiety, worry, stress and uncertainty about the future. But even at the height of the pandemic, being in gardens, parks and other green spaces has become a top coping strategy, with 45% of people saying that being among nature…