Chapter 19

Tools and sheets attached to this chapter

The sources behind these tools and sheets, by publisher

• Official guidance

  Autism spectrum disorder in under 19s: recommendations

  NICE.Background on support that reduces distress. Does not validate a single card for every child.

• Official guidance

  Challenging behaviour and learning disabilities

  NICE.Background on preventive support and reducing the need for restrictive interventions. Clinical and service guidance for people with learning (intellectual) disabilities and behavior that challenges. Restrictive responses are treated as a last resort, not excluded. This does not teach parents to restrain a child.

• Public information

  Tips for Connecting and Communicating

  CDC.Background on giving a child your attention, listening and naming feelings. For parents of toddlers and preschoolers. It does not evaluate short calming scripts or this card.

• Official guidance

  WHO guidelines on parenting interventions to prevent maltreatment and enhance parent-child relationships with children aged 0-17 years

  World Health Organization.Background on parenting programs that aim to reduce harsh responses and strengthen the parent-child relationship. Preparing the calm response ahead and repairing afterwards is this plan's own adaptation. Program guidance. It does not describe one child, and none of it is a treatment plan.

• Research

  Meta-analysis of emotion socialization interventions

  PubMed.Evidence that structured programs can improve parents' emotion-socialization practices and young children's emotional competence. The trials involved parents of children aged 18 months to 6 years 11 months. They did not test this card or show whether a particular repair worked in one household.

An official recommendation, a study, an inference we drew and a design choice we made are four different things. The line under each source says which one it is doing here.