In this book, the second of a series, you will join me on a journey exploring the world of child and family practice seen through the question of 
+ Why are so many children and adults struggling?
+ What does the research REALLY say?

You'll love this book if you meet any of the following:

✅ You're a professional who supports young people and families eg a GP or a teacher or a social worker or police officer or a concerned parent or carer who is concerned at the growing levels of challenges seen in our homes and communities.  You may be a policy maker

✅ You're perplexed and want to be part of the solution not part of the problem

✅ You feel as if you something significant is missing but are not sure what

✅ You want to understand more about what you are seeing and what you can do

✅ You want to feel more hopeful and less discouraged but are not sure where to focus

✅ You're ready to learn and to grow and change yourself but you are not sure what to focus on

✅ You're fed up of quick fixes and empty promises

✅ You want to work with others to create a better future for yourself, your family and your community

Many professionals and parents can feel stuck and discouraged in the face of the many challenging situations we are hearing about every day

You spend a lot of time:

- Wondering why there are so many mental health issues for adults and young people

- Watching anxiously about what is coming next

- Wondering when someone is going to do something and wondering what you can do

_ Wanting to feel more confident but not feeling clear yourself 

- Wondering how to get people talking together but increasingly discouraged

- Talking with others who feel as equally discouraged as you

- Trying to stay optimistic but unclear how to do that

Ask me how I know about all that.  It's because that;s where I started.

None of the above is doing the stuff you want to be doing... you would like to be enjoying your life and your role and having good relationships with your family, and colleagues and local community.  

The good news is that since having spent time trying to figure out what to really focus on one day I discovered what I was looking for.... a missing idea that helped to make sense both of what I was seeing AND what I should focus on.   This term Relationship Health is so important.  More importantly, challenging situations still look challenging but they also look very different:


Since understanding this term and the research behind it: 

👉 I now know what to focus on and why when challenging situations are present.  Even though there may not be quick fixes, there is finally a path and that path is something I have much more control over than I initially realised.  

👉 I am much clearer about the process of figuring out my own role in different situations.  

👉 I used to know that some things ''worked' and some didn't - I just wasn't sure why - now I am much clearer about why..  

👉 This is a term that helps me to get together and work with other ACTION-TAKERS who also want to be part of the solutions to challenges not part of the problems and are committed to progressing more relationship health in their own homes, work settings and communities.     I am, excited to be helping people who want to grow...

👉 I feel more optimistic as I have seen that difficult situations can be turned around.  I have seen this in my own home and work roles and those changes feel really good.

👉 I know that the positive change can be achieved when we have a clear path to work on together.