Press and Media
This page features newspaper and media articles featuring the Anna Freud Centre, its staff and its associates. It includes:
In 2000, the Anna Freud Centre was asked by Nursery World, one of the UK's leading publications on child care and child development, to contribute a series of articles relating to various aspects of child development and behaviour.
Click on the links below to read those articles:
- Moving On: Managing Transition
- Acting the Part: Expression through Play
- Going Back: Reverting to less mature behaviour is often an indication that children are feeling vulnerable
- Truth to tell: If children are telling lies, its usually because they are trying to avoid a painful situation. Getting to the root of the problem will change the need to lie
- The low down: In the hurly-burly world of a busy nursery it can be difficult for staff to notice children's sadness. Child psychotherapists from the Anna Freud Centre explain how to spot the signs and how to offer help
- A painful subject: Biting alarms adults but is often a cry for attention by a child who is feeling abandoned, frustrated or afraid. Child psychotherapists from the Anna Freud Centre offer helpful insights into a disturbing habit
- Scream and Shout: Young childrens tantrums can be exhausting to deal with, so it helps if everyone, especially parents, understand why they occur
- Routine Matters: Children need adults to set boundaries in order to feel secure and have a neasure for their independence
- Worry Not: Dealing with children's anxieties so they can move on into maturity requires tact and understanding by adults
- Pressing Needs: There is usually a reason for attention-seeking behaviour and to help the child it's vital to identify underlying problems
- Surgery Hours: Visits to the doctor or dentist cannot be avoided, but the terror that they strike in some children can
- Show of Strength: Understanding how children's capacity for empathy is obstructed can shed light on why they may become bullies
AFC 50th anniversary celebrations: Childhood Memories Exhibition
A 2002 exhibition in which celebrities discussed their childhood memories. The exhibition was organized to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Anna Freud Centre. Click here to view the exhibition online (link).
Children Behaving Badly - When your child won't eat (PDF)
The Anna Freud Centre was involved in 'When your child won't eat,' an episode of the Channel 4 programme Children Behaving Badly, which was broadcast on 15 August 2002.
As a follow-up to the episode, this document offers hints and guidelines on eating for toddlers, and nursery and junior school-aged children.