The Piper Model ─ Personalised Interventions Promoting Emotional Resilience in Children With Social, Emotional and Mental Health Needs

This book is intended to be both a practical evidence-based tool and 'awareness-raising' resource for teachers, teaching assistants, mentors and all adults who work with children and young people who present as 'extremely challenging' in the school context. In every school there are a small number of pupils, less than five percent, who take up more than fifty percent of the staff's time. This book provides school staff with a different way of thinking and, in doing so can enable those children or young people "to turn themselves around" - building life-long resilience skills and providing the staff themselves with ways of drawing on their own personal strengths; this combined with a new way of working that enables them to avoid "burn-out" when working with this particularly vulnerable group of children and young people.

Dennis Piper is a former head teacher who now offers specialist consultancy around Special Educational Needs and Social, Emotional and Mental Health, work which has won international recognition for innovation. Dennis also works as an Associate Lecturer and Academic Tutor at Manchester Metropolitan University.