Latest Blogs From Fegans
First Love: Teenage Relationships
Relationships can be more intense for teens often because they are highly attuned to what others might be thinking of them, but also because the adolescent brain is ‘a work in progress’....
The Internet: a Blessing and a Curse
According to child safety experts, the most common age for a child to get a phone is between 12-13, in the UK this ties in with when a child is in the early years of secondary school, and...
Volunteer Blog – Parent Support Worker
by Sally Ross “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" is a proverbial phrase used to encourage optimism and a positive can-do attitude in the face of adversity or misfortune. I stole...
PRESS RELEASE Children are Missing out on Contact with their Fathers finds DAD.info Survey on Post-Separation Parenting
38% of Mums say their children do not spend time with their Dads following separation or divorce One in five Dads (19%) who lost contact did not see their children for over six...
REPORT Divorce 1000* Hearing the voices of 1000* parents with lived experience of separation and divorce
Inspired by the thousands of distressed children in our Fegans counselling rooms and the heartbroken parents in our DAD.info forum, this survey was devised to gain insight into the impact...
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Releasing Anger
A child who is very angry may be so full of the emotion they cannot contain it and need to release some of it before they can begin to calm down. Here are some ways they can do...
The Power of Bubbles
A pot of blowing bubbles is a wonderful resource. Dinah, one of our counsellors, always has one in her counselling tool kit. Most supermarkets sell them, she tells us how when the power of...
PRESS RELEASE How Remote Counselling is Helping Teenagers in Lockdown
"For teenagers, online is their natural mode of communication so they are very relaxed and willing to embrace the counselling sessions. The technology itself is really no big deal to them...
How Remote Counselling is Helping Teenagers in Lockdown
"For teenagers, online is their natural mode of communication so they are very relaxed and willing to embrace the counselling sessions. The technology itself is really no big deal...
How to Make a Face Mask with a Window
When face-to-face counselling resumes, our counsellors will need to wear face masks to protect the children who come for counselling. Masks can be scary, and act as a barrier between the...
What to do When Things get Fraught
Tense, nervous household? What to do when things get fraught. DON’T PANIC and STAY CALM Having to spend so much time together with other family members when we...
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