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Without You – Children and Young People Growing Up with Loss and its Effects
by Tamar GranotIn this sympathetic book, Tamar Granot explains the immediate and long-term effects of loss on children and adolescents. She describes how loss is experienced at different ages, explaining the significant consequences it can have on the development of personality. Without You provides valuable guidance for parents and carers of bereaved children.
Understanding Your One-Year-Old (The Tavistock Clinic - Understanding Your Child)
by Sarah Gustavus-JonesAcknowledging the crucial role of relationships and parenting, Sarah Gustavus Jones offers guidance and reassurance in this sensitive exploration of the issues central to your child's developing physical and emotional needs.
Managing with Asperger Syndrome
by Malcolm JohnsonThis insider account provides much-needed information about a subject of increasing interest: people with Asperger Syndrome (AS) working in management positions. Johnson provides useful examples and guidance on adapting to the workplace and coping with the pressures and demands of professional roles.
Managing Sex Offender Risk (Research Highlights in Social Work)
by Tony Ward Andrew Kendrick Donald GrubinBased on key research into assessment, treatment and recidivism, this book offers practical guidance on improving intervention techniques with sex offenders. The contributors explore the monitoring and surveillance strategies and cognitive-behavioural techniques currently in use, and give clear directions for future practice.
Asperger Syndrome in Young Children: A Developmental Approach for Parents and Professionals
by Cassandra Coe Laurie Leventhal-BelferThe authors provide a diagnostic model based on assessment of the child in contrast to 'neurotypical' children, considering relationships at home, school or in care. They show how to develop early intervention strategies and aid parents, teachers and mental health professionals in making informed decisions to nurture the development of AS children.
Different Minds: Gifted Children with AD/HD, Asperger Syndrome, and Other Learning Deficits
by Deirdre V LoveckyExplaining why certain children are gifted and how giftedness is manifested, each chapter addresses the relevance for children with AD/HD and Asperger Syndrome. Lovecky guides parents and professionals through methods of diagnosis and advises on how best to nurture individual needs, positive behaviour and relationships at home and at school.
Communicating Partners: 30 Years of Building Responsive Relationships with Late Talking Children including Autism, Asperger's Syndrome (ASD), Down Syndrome, and Typical Devel
by James D. MacDonaldThe program focuses on five key stages of communication development - interactive play, nonverbal communication, social language, conversation, and civil behaviour - and five life-long responsive strategies to use every day to build relationships within the child's own world.
Perspectives on Rehabilitation and Dementia
by Faith Gibson Linda Clare Suzanne CahillThis book offers new insights into the application of a well-established approach to people who have traditionally been thought not to benefit from them. It demonstrates that rehabilitation has positive outcomes for people with dementia's quality of life and self-esteem, especially if rehabilitation is seen as a positive philosophy of practice.
Goodbye, Mr. Wonderful: Alcoholism, Addiction and Early Recovery
by Chris McCullyGoodbye, Mr. Wonderful gives a detailed account of the early stages of recovery from alcoholism. From his admittance into hospital to his life as a writer in the Netherlands, McCully offers a detailed and often analytical reflection on what it feels like to be a recovering alcoholic.
Women Who Offend (Research Highlights in Social Work)
by Margaret Malloch Loraine GelsthorpePresenting research that will underpin effective practice with women who offend, this unique and thought-provoking text aims to help professionals meet the needs of this group as well as providing a theoretical resource for policy makers and academics.
Understanding Your Two-Year-Old (The Tavistock Clinic - Understanding Your Child)
by Lisa MillerLisa Miller guides parents through their two-year-old's development, from how to deal with a 'bossy boots' to understanding the central importance of toys, and the development of language and nonverbal communicative skills. She describes ways in which parents can help a young child express or resolve difficult feelings or jealousy.
Asperger Syndrome, Adolescence, and Identity: Looking Beyond the Label
by Latika Vasil Harvey MolloyThis book is based on extensive interviews with adolescents diagnosed with AS. It includes six life stories, which present an authentic and fascinating look at the lives of the teenagers and how AS has shaped their growing identities. The stories provide the basis for a discussion of common themes and issues facing teenagers with AS.
Good Practice in Adult Mental Health (Good Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice)
by David HewittThis text is a guide to good practice within adult mental health care, providing a comprehensive introduction to mental health and illness. It is designed to aid mental health professionals and workers, and any individuals coming in to contact with mental illness, in recognising a mental health need or problem and offering appropriate support.
Homeschooling the Child with Asperger Syndrome: Real Help for Parents Anywhere and On Any Budget
by Lise PylesPacked with inspiring ideas and tips that can be used with any curriculum and on any budget, Homeschooling the Child with Asperger Syndrome explains how to design a varied study programme built around the child's own interests, making use of simple material as well as computers and on-line resources.
The Child's Own Story: Life Story Work with Traumatized Children (Delivering Recovery)
by Richard Rose Terry PhilpotThe authors explain the concepts of attachment, separation, loss and identity, using these contexts to describe how to use techniques such as family trees, wallpaper work, and eco- and geno-scaling. They offer guidance on interviewing relatives and carers, and how to gain access to key documentation, including social workers' case files.
Surviving the Special Educational Needs System: How to be a ‘Velvet Bulldozer'
by Sandy RowRow illustrates how the special educational needs system works and empowers parents to demand help for children with special needs. This practical book challenges the theoretical established literature on SEN, providing an accessible and effective resource for those needing advice on their rights to services and help for their children.
Creative Writing in Health and Social Care
by Fiona SampsonThis unique and comprehensive 'map' of the topic of creative writing in health and social care brings together contributions from health and social care professionals and provides the information needed to teach, counsel and write. Case studies range from work with pre-literate children in post-war Macedonia to people with dementia in Britain.
The Seduction of Children: Empowering Parents and Teachers to Protect Children from Child Sexual Abuse
by Christiane SandersonThis informative book offers practical strategies for the protection of children that anyone involved in the life of a child will find indispensable. Providing the reader with an understanding of typical/normative sexual development in children, the author enables parents and teachers to recognize the warning signs of sexual abuse.
Little Windows into Art Therapy: Small Openings for Beginning Therapists
by Deborah SchroderDrawing on her own development as an art therapist and her extensive experience of supervising new therapists and students, Schroder provides practical advice on encouraging nervous or reluctant clients, or those unfamiliar with art therapy, to benefit from artmaking. She argues for a two-way sharing of art between therapist and client.
Appraising and Using Social Research in the Human Services: An Introduction for Social Work and Health Professionals
by Michael SheppardThis accessible introduction provides social work students and practitioners with the knowledge they need both to evaluate research and to apply it to their own practice. Exploring a range of research methodologies, the author discusses the strengths and limitations of each and shows the reader how to identify the assumptions underlying them.
Foster Placements: Why They Succeed and Why They Fail (Supporting Parents)
by Ian Gibbs Ian Sinclair Kate WilsonBased on exhaustive research, the authors discuss the primary concerns in foster placement planning, considering the high frequency of placement breakdowns, their impact on the child's behaviour and school performance, and the challenges this places on foster families.
Social Work and Evidence-Based Practice (Research Highlights in Social Work)
by David SmithEvidence-based practice - what it might mean, how it can be achieved, whether it should be aspired to - is the subject of much debate and argument in social work. The authors demonstrate why evidence-based practice is important, but also why it is important to think clearly and carefully about its implications for the social work profession.
Giggle Time - Establishing the Social Connection: A Program to Develop the Communication Skills of Children with Autism
by Susan Aud SondersGiggle Time is a program for parents, teachers and other professionals to help develop the non-verbal, verbal and social reciprocity skills of children with autism. It describes in accessible detail how to communicate with children with autism and gives clear instructions on "how to" techniques for developing language skills.
Child Neglect: Practice Issues for Health and Social Care (Best Practice in Working with Children)
by Danielle Turney Geraldine Macdonald Jan Horwath Helen Buckley Moira WalkerThis book addresses the key themes in child neglect, draws on current research and practice knowledge and sets out the implications for practice. With a joint health and social work focus, this interdisciplinary book is an essential resource for all professionals working towards integrated and collaborative childcare services.
Adam's Alternative Sports Day: An Asperger Story
by Jude Welton9 year old Adam dreads Sports Day, so he is delighted when Mr Williams announces that this year there will be an Alternative Sports Day with some very different challenges. There will be quizzes, riddles, and a treasure hunt - all the things that Adam enjoys. This book offers insights into how a child with AS copes with the challenges of school.