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Provides guidance for both employers and staff on promoting positive mental health and supporting those experiencing mental ill health in the workplace

The importance of good mental health and wellbeing in the workplace is a subject of increased public awareness and governmental attention. The Department of Health advises that one in four people will experience a mental health issue at some point in their lives. Although a number of recent developments and initiatives have raised the profile of this crucial issue, employers are experiencing challenges in promoting the mental health and wellbeing of their employees. Mental Health & Wellbeing in the Workplace contains expert guidance for improving mental health and supporting those experiencing mental ill health.

This comprehensive book addresses the range of issues surrounding mental health and wellbeing in work environments - providing all involved with informative and practical assistance. Authors Gill Hasson and Donna Butler examine changing workplace environment for improved wellbeing, shifting employer and employee attitudes on mental health, possible solutions to current and future challenges and more. Detailed, real-world case studies illustrate a variety of associated concerns from both employer and employee perspectives. This important guide:

• Explains why understanding mental health important and its impact on businesses and employees
• Discusses why and how to promote mental health in the workplace and the importance of having an effective 'wellbeing strategy'
• Provides guidance on managing staff experiencing mental ill health
• Addresses dealing with employee stress and anxiety
• Features resources for further support if experiencing mental health issues

Mental Health & Wellbeing in the Workplace is a valuable resource for those in the workplace wanting to look after their physical and mental wellbeing, and those looking for guidance in managing staff with mental health issues.

An easy to follow guide to creating a mindful approach to life

In this updated Second Edition of Mindfulness, mindfulness expert Gill Hasson explains how, instead of rushing through your life, you can take things at a slower pace and feel calmer and more grounded. You will discover how being mindful opens you up to new ways of thinking and doing things, reducing stress and increasing your enjoyment of life.

With ideas, tips and techniques to help you enjoy a more mindful approach to life, you'll learn how to:

• Adopt more positive ways of thinking and behaving
• Become calmer and more confident
• Let go of the past and break free from unhelpful thoughts and behaviour
• Bring about positive changes in your relationships
• Achieve a new level of self-awareness and understanding

Too often, you don't fully experience what is and is not happening now. Mindfulness explains how to be more aware and better able to stay in the present moment so that you can benefit from a fresh new approach to your life.

Develop balance and harmony in all areas of life through mindfulness

The second edition of the Mindfulness Pocketbook: Little Exercises for a Calmer Life brings you exercises and practices to achieve greater balance and harmony in all areas of your life. You'll find new ideas for enjoying nature, being mindful at work, staying physically active, and encouraging creativity. With this book, you can discover how mindfulness opens you up to new ideas and fresh ways of doing things. You'll have a new approach to reducing stress and increasing your enjoyment.

This revised edition of the bestselling Mindfulness Pocketbook shares guidance on new paths to living more harmoniously.

• Be mindful in the outdoors, communing with nature
• Use mindful techniques to enhance creativity
• Practice mindful physical activity for a healthy body and mind
• Add mindfulness to your workday

The new section in this pocketbook edition encourages you to treat yourself to small pleasures, learn a new skill, and take time for relaxation and holidays. A calmer, more balanced life is closer than you think!

Colour and Doodle Your Stress Away

It's impossible to stay 'on' all the time. Just as a car engine overheats if you continue to rev it, keeping your mind in high gear puts it under a level of pressure it can't sustain. If you're feeling overwhelmed, stressed, anxious or agitated, and unable to think clearly, take your foot of the pedal, and clear your mind with The Mindfulness Colouring and Activity Book, from Gill Hasson, the author of the best-selling book Mindfulness.

This portable book contains colouring, games, and activities all designed to give you a break from your everyday concerns, switch off your mind, wind down and relax. They give your mind something specific to focus on, allowing thoughts to flow easily but without any complex thinking or planning. Each activity provides a balance between challenge and skill. The level of engagement keeps your attention so focused that you become fully absorbed in the moment, preventing stressful thoughts from entering your head.

The Mindfulness Colouring and Activity Book includes:

- Colouring

- Zentangles

- Optical illusion activities

- Origami

- Mazes

- Word Puzzles

- Doodling activities

- Drawing games

- Observation games

Bestselling personal development author Gill Hasson is back with this pocket sized guide to dealing with your emotions. Learn how to understand yourself and those around you with practical tips and tricks that will help you be more assertive, forge stronger relationships and manage anxiety.

Did you know that the way you approach your own thoughts and feelings determines your happiness and success in every area of your life? Just think about it for a second, it's not necessarily the smartest people that are the most successful or the most fulfilled in life, being clever or highly skilled isn't enough. Your ability to manage your feelings, other people and your interactions with them are what makes all the difference.

This highly practical book is full of advice, tips and techniques to help you:

• Understand and manage your emotions
• Become more assertive and confident
• Develop your social skills and your interactions with others
• Handle difficult situations, events and other people

The Emotional Intelligence Pocketbook is your practical how-to guide for understanding yourself and those around you.

Learn how to improve and maintain your health and wellbeing with a practical and achievable self-care guide

Are you looking after yourself? For so for many of us, with so much to do and think about, self care - taking care of our mental, emotional and physical health and wellbeing - often falls by the wayside.

The Self-Care Handbook equips you to make positive, helpful choices for incorporating self-care into your life. It explains how to take responsibility for your own wellbeing and provides ideas and practical advice on how you can better look after yourself.

Bestselling author Gill Hasson shows you how to develop the mindset, routines and habits that can protect, maintain and improve your health and wellbeing. The Handbook presents straightforward approaches that can help you feel good about yourself, manage stress and anxiety, achieve a work-life balance, increase your physical health and much more. This book will help you:

• Encourage a positive, healthy relationship with yourself and strengthen your wellbeing
• Understand and implement the factors that can protect, maintain and improve your mental and physical health and wellbeing
• Manage overwhelm and simplify a busy life
• Know how best to relax, switch off and enjoy yourself
• Look after yourself when you're going through difficulties, setbacks or a crisis

The Self-Care Handbook is an important resource for anyone wishing to integrate healthy behaviours and activities and look after their physical and mental wellbeing.

All children feel afraid at times, from being afraid of the dark, to monsters, to things that might happen, and need manageable, step-by-step strategies for coping with their fears. This book reassures children that everyone feels scared sometimes and that being afraid is not silly. Kids will learn that they can face their fears in a number of ways:

• Take action, like having a night-light so it's not too dark
• Set a goal, like be able to ride a rollercoaster without being afraid
• Take steps toward feeling less scared, like playing an instrument in front of one person, then more, then the whole school
• Stop scary thoughts, by telling them, Go away I'm not listening

Kids Can Cope Series

These inviting picture books offer kids a wide range of practical strategies they can use to cope with difficult feelings and situations, such as anger, worry, teasing, and jealousy. With gentle humor, charming illustrations, and kid-friendly advice-- plus additional information for children and adults at the back of each book--the Kids Can Cope series gives kids the tools they need to face challenges.

Jealousy can sometimes feel like having a green-eyed monster inside. Kids need effective strategies to understand the feeling and let go of their jealousy.

This picture book on how to deal with jealousy acknowledges that jealousy is a common and natural human emotion, and goes on to provide practical tools to help kids, such as:

• Get help with your feelings and talk to a grownup or friend
• Think helpful thoughts by focusing on what you can do
• Work toward getting what you want
• Practice gratitude for what you do have

At the back of the book, kids will find a special section with additional activities to manage jealousy. Also included is a note to adults with advice on helping children recognize jealousy and find positive ways to deal with their feelings.

These inviting picture books offer kids a wide range of practical strategies they can use to cope with difficult feelings and situations, such as anger, worry, teasing, and jealousy. With gentle humor, charming illustrations, and kid-friendly advice--plus additional information for children and adults at the back of each book--the Kids Can Cope series gives kids the tools they need to face challenges.

Kids Can Cope Series

These inviting picture books offer children a wide range of practical strategies they can use to cope with difficult feelings and situations, such as anger, worry, teasing, and jealousy. With gentle humor, charming illustrations, and kid-friendly advice--plus additional information for children and adults at the back of each book--the Kids Can Cope series gives kids the tools they need to face challenges.

When children can't do something or can't have something they want, they often feel frustrated. And feeling frustrated can make them feel wound up or angry, tense and hot, or helpless. They might get discouraged, and feel stuck, like it's not worth trying anymore. Kids need effective strategies to work through their frustration.

This picture book on how to deal with frustration provides practical tools to help kids, such as:

• Spot the warning signs of frustration
• Try to calm down
• Step back from frustration
• Break a frustrating task down into smaller parts

Kids Can Cope Series
These inviting picture books offer kids a wide range of practical strategies they can use to cope with difficult feelings and situations, such as anger, worry, teasing, and jealousy. With gentle humor, charming illustrations, and kid-friendly advice--plus additional information for children and adults at the back of each book--the Kids Can Cope series gives kids the tools they need to face challenges.

Everyone gets angry, including kids. But when anger strikes, it can often feel overwhelming and hard to control. In this picture book, readers find ways to manage their emotions and feel calmer.

Strategies for cooling down and coping with anger are clearly explained, from using breathing exercises and doing an angry dance to seeking help from trusted and caring adults. Paired with the text are friendly and reassuring illustrations featuring diverse children in a variety of situations. Readers will enjoy seeing kids their own age as they learn how to deal with anger in healthy ways.

At the back of the book, kids will find a special section with additional ideas and activities they can use to deal with angry feelings and thoughts. Also included at the end of the book is a note to caregivers with advice on helping children understand and use the tools and methods from the book.

Kids Can Cope Series

These inviting picture books offer children a wide range of practical strategies they can use to cope with difficult feelings and situations, such as anger, worry, teasing, and jealousy. With gentle humor, charming illustrations, and kid-friendly advice--plus additional information for children and adults at the back of each book--the Kids Can Cope series gives kids the tools they need to face challenges.

Slow down and enjoy life's special moments!

Moments of Comfort: Embracing the Joy in Life's Simple Pleasures is a beautifully illustrated book that delivers the little moments of warmth, reassurance, hope, and optimism that every so often, is just what you need to get through the day.

The perfect antidote to a difficult day or a long week, Moments of Comfort explains why the small pleasures and shots of joy are so important and offers advice, perspectives, insights, and ideas into how you can include them in your everyday life.

In this book, you'll get:

• Practical ideas and insights into how you can take advantage of more of life's simple pleasures
• Guidance on how you can find more peace, encouragement, and connection in the world around you
• Advice on finding the strength to keep going through the difficulties, challenges and tough times in life

Ideal for anyone looking for some encouragement and enjoyment in their life, Moments of Comfort is a perfect gift for someone you know who might need some support and reassurance, inspiration and hope right now. And of course, that someone could be you!

All children worry sometimes, and they often need help learning how to deal with anxiety. In this encouraging picture book, readers learn ways to help themselves when they feel anxious, nervous, or fearful. Strategies for how to calm down and cope with worries are clearly explained, from breathing exercises and playing with friends to seeking help from an adult.

Accompanying the text are gentle illustrations featuring diverse children in a variety of situations. Readers will enjoy seeing kids their own age working to overcome challenges and deal with nervousness, worry, and other difficult feelings in healthy ways.

At the back of the book, kids will find a special section with additional ideas and activities they can use to deal with worrying thoughts. Also included at the end of the book is a note to caregivers with advice on helping children understand and use the tools and methods from the book.

Kids Can Cope Series

These inviting picture books offer children a wide range of practical strategies they can use to cope with difficult feelings and situations, such as anger, worry, teasing, and jealousy. With gentle humor, charming illustrations, and kid-friendly advice--plus additional information for children and adults at the back of each book--the Kids Can Cope series gives kids the tools they need to face challenges.

When things don't go as expected or as planned, children may feel sad and upset, let down or angry. They may not want to join in for a while. Overcoming disappointment can be difficult, but this picture book helps with manageable strategies:

• Think and do things differently
• Say well done to the winners
• Keep on trying
• Have a Plan B
• Feel gratitude for what you have

Kids Can Cope Series
These inviting picture books offer kids a wide range of practical strategies they can use to cope with difficult feelings and situations, such as anger, worry, teasing, and jealousy. With gentle humor, charming illustrations, and kid-friendly advice--plus additional information for children and adults at the back of each book--the Kids Can Cope series gives kids the tools they need to face challenges.

Explore strategies, ideas and advice for overcoming loneliness

Anyone, whatever their age, gender, culture or abilities, can find themselves separate and disconnected from others and feeling lonely. If you feel lonely you are lonely. And it's not nice.

But your situation can change for the better!

In Lonely Less: How to Connect with Others, Make Friends and Feel Less Lonely, bestselling author Gill Hasson delivers practical strategies you can implement immediately to counter loneliness and connect with other people.

The book recognises that as social beings, we each need to interact with others; to connect in positive ways and feel that we are understood, that we belong and are valued by others.

It offers:

• A guide to meeting new people and making friends
• Advice on how best to 'fit in' with others
• Ideas on how to spend time alone
• Recommendations for keeping connected when working from home
• Expert advice on managing existential loneliness; the disconnection that can follow a traumatic experience

Whether you're looking to empower yourself or help someone else, Lonely Less is a must-read in order to better connect with others, take part in social activities, make friends, be understood and feel a sense of belonging.

All kids feel shy at times. They might not know what to do or what to say. Or it might take them a while to warm up to people. This picture book helps children overcome shyness with manageable strategies:

• Plan ahead for parties by practicing what to say or do
• Invite a friend home to practice with just one person instead of a group
• Join an activity, team, or club, and ask a friend to join too
• Build up courage through positive self-talk

Kids Can Cope Series

These inviting picture books offer children a wide range of practical strategies they can use to cope with difficult feelings and situations, such as anger, worry, teasing, and jealousy. With gentle humor, charming illustrations, and kid-friendly advice--plus additional information for children and adults at the back of each book--the Kids Can Cope series gives kids the tools they need to face challenges.

With this deeply practical book, mindfulness will become a locked in habit.

Every day you'll learn (at least!) three new approaches, and will discover:
- How to calm down, gain perspective and regroup
- How to vary the intensity or focus of mindful exercises for any situation
- How to use mindfulness as a starting point for how you approach everyday challenges
- Why three weeks is enough to pierce the bubble of stress you're used to carrying around with you.

With this deeply practical book, you'll learn how to stop being satisfied with less, focus on what really mattered to you, and learn how to use positive thinking, mental alertness and good energy to attract abundance to your life.

Every day you'll learn (at least!) three new approaches, and will discover:
- How abundance is a state of mind that you can tune in to.
- How improving your self-esteem will help you attract happiness and success.
- How to move towards a life of effortless prosperity.
- Why three weeks is enough to change your attitude and begin creating an abundant life.

Think your way to a more positive life

Positive thinking is an approach and a set of skills that we can all learn. But it's not just about how and what you think; you've got to do something In a range of situations, positive thinking needs to be followed by positive action. The good news is that whatever life has thrown at you in the past and whatever is you want to achieve in the future, the Positive Thinking Pocketbook will help you think and behave more positively.

Inside, you'll find out how to use tips, techniques and advice on creating a positive mindset and developing your positive thinking. Next, you'll find out how to apply that positive thinking to a range of potentially difficult situations.

• Little approachable exercises make it easy to get started
• Full of scenarios, ideas, advice, tips and techniques
• Learn how to overcome negative thinking, get motivated and stay motivated
• Discover how to make positive thinking a habit

Whenever you want a shot of positivity, simply pick out a few ideas, tips and techniques that appeal to you and give them a try