The PPLF Deep-Dive Workbook — structured reflective exercises, self-assessment tools, case scenarios, and professional training content for parents and clinicians.
The free PPLF introduction describes the four needs. This 15-page workbook takes them into structured, evidenced, reflective practice across five parts — for parents, educators, clinicians, and anyone supporting children with ADHD or high emotional needs.
A psychological deep-dive into the four needs — Powerful, Playful, Loving, Free — with their roots in choice theory, SDT, attachment theory, polyvagal theory, and Adlerian psychology. Includes the inner child concept and a reflection on how your own history shapes your responses.
A Family Needs Audit, practical strategies for building each need at home, extended scenarios (the homework battle, the child who hits), pattern mapping exercises, inner child reflections for each dimension, and the PAUSE Practice — a five-step in-the-moment tool.
A Classroom Needs Audit, behaviour-as-need mapping guide, classroom scenarios (the child who calls out, the child who has given up), needs mapping for specific children, and reflection on the educator's own needs.
How ADHD puts each of the four needs under particular pressure — with specific, evidence-informed strategies for home and school, and reflective prompts for immediate application.
Three structured commitment exercises — one for the child, one for yourself, one for the pattern you most want to change — plus a final reflection on the one insight you want to carry forward.
PDF format. Instant download. Written by Dr John Connolly, Senior Clinical & Health Psychologist. Suitable for individual and group use; professional training contexts.