Help Your Child Develop Emotional Literacy The parents' guide to happy children

This book shows how parents can facilitate their child's emotional and mental well being right from the start. It explains emotional literacy and draws on recent research to offer parents advice and to provide practical step-by-step activities for developing emotional and mental health in their children, from birth to adulthood.

Dr Betty Rudd, co-director of Hygeia Health Limited, is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist, Specialist Teacher and parent of four. She was in the original team which brought Circle Time from the USA to the UK and is named by the British Psychological Society as a specialist in emotional literacy and body language. Consequently, she is sought after by national and international media for her comments on these issues. Betty helped to write the government document Every Child Matters, and is listed in Who's Who in the World for her outstanding contributions in her field of endeavour. Her latest book Talking is for All will be published by Sage in 2008.