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Decision-Making, Personhood and Dementia: Exploring the Interface
by Murna Downs John Keady Jill Manthorpe Wendy Hulko Clive Baldwin Sinead Donnelly Andre Smith Cheryl Tilse Daniel Tsai Grant Gillett Marg Hall Sion Williams MaryLou HarriganBased on papers from the Centre for Research on Personhood in Dementia workshop, experts discuss the interface between dementia, personhood and decision-making. Drawing on a range of perspectives, the book forges new understandings of relationships between informal decision-making and formal biomedical or legal processes for assessing competence.
Mental Health, Service User Involvement and Recovery
by Julie Gosling Tony Leiba Aloyse Raptopoulos Humphrey Greaves Liz Green Philip Kemp Tom WilksAs the momentum for personalisation and recovery approaches grows, service users are increasingly participating as partners in all aspects of health and social care delivery, policy-making and professional training. This book provides an overview of service user involvement in mental health, its origins and current practice and policy.
Job Success for Persons with Developmental Disabilities
by David WieganIn the USA alone, there are roughly three million individuals living with a developmental disability, but less than a third are active in the labour market. This book provides a comprehensive approach to developing a successful jobs program for persons with developmental disabilities, drawn from the author's extensive experience and real success.
Activities for Adults with Learning Disabilities: Having Fun, Meeting Needs
by Helen Sonnet Ann TaylorThis valuable resource for people working with adults with learning disabilities provides over 60 sessions of fun activities that aim to entertain and stimulate the minds of people with learning disabilities. The sessions are divided into different types of activity including cookery, arts and crafts, drama and dance, and outside events.
Chen: Living Taijiquan in the Classical Style
by Jan SilberstorffIn this book, Master Jan Silberstorff, a leading Chen practitioner, shares his expertise and insights into Chen style Taijiquan, explaining its background and key principles. He discusses the different Chen forms and the importance of each, as well as the place of competition and the effect on participants.
Transforming Tales: How Stories Can Change People
by Rob ParkinsonThis book reveals the true impact of stories on our lives and how stories can create feelings of hope, take away psychological distress and even stimulate the immune system. It contains over 90 short stories, and allows readers to understand the patterns storytellers use to captivate attention and how truths are often encapsulated in stories.
Tackling Addiction: Pathways to Recovery
by George De Leon Brian Kidd Betsy Thom Albert Zandvoort Alex Stevens David Best Mark Gilman Wendy Dawson Tim McSweeney KuladhariniThis edited collection brings together the thoughts and experiences of researchers, practitioners and service users from the fields of health, addiction and criminal justice and centres on current developments in addiction policy and practice. Tackling Addiction examines what recovery, addiction and dependence really mean.
Basic Theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine (International Acupuncture Textbooks)
by Zhu Bing & Wang HongcaiTraditional Chinese medicine has a complex history, yet the basic principles at the heart of practice have remained the same for hundreds of years. Without a solid understanding of these fundamental theories, effective practice is impossible. This book provides a complete introduction to everything that students and practitioners need to know.
Siblings: The Autism Spectrum Through Our Eyes
by Jane Johnson and Anne Van RensselaerThe needs of a child with autism often overwhelm a family, leaving neurotypical children feeling overshadowed. For the first time, the 'neurotypical' siblings get to have their say. They recount the good, the bad, and the downright annoying in a way that all young people in a similar situation will immediately recognise.
Introduction to Counselling Survivors of Interpersonal Trauma
by Christiane SandersonVictims of sexual and physical trauma can feel lost and disconnected from themselves and others. Christiane Sanderson's book explains how counsellors can restore connection to self and others, and facilitate recovery within a safe and supportive therapeutic relationship.
Biochemical Imbalances in Disease: A Practitioner's Handbook
by Angelette Muller Kate Neil Ada Hallam Michael Culp Basant Puri Laurence Trueman Michael Ash Christabelle Yeoh Zeller Pimlott Denise Mortimore Helen Lynam Surinder Phull Justine Bold Jean Monro Jane Nodder Smita HancilesBiochemical imbalances caused by nutritional deficiencies are a contributory factor in chronic illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, auto-immune conditions and cancer. This handbook for practitioners explains how to identify and treat such biochemical imbalances in order to better understand and manage a patient's ill-health.
Psychiatry in Prisons: A Comprehensive Handbook (Forensic Focus)
by Simon Wilson Ian CummingPsychiatry in Prisons provides a comprehensive overview of the history, problems and development of psychiatric health care in prisons. It tackles a broad range of issues, from familiar mental health issues such as substance misuse, self-injury and health screening to complex legal, moral and philosophical dilemmas.
Telling Tales About Dementia: Experiences of Caring
by Lucy WhitmanIn this book, thirty carers from different backgrounds and circumstances share their experiences of caring for a parent, partner or friend with dementia. This unique collection of personal accounts will be an engaging read for anyone affected by dementia in a personal or professional context, including social workers, practitioners and care staff.
Developing College Skills in Students with Autism and Asperger's Syndrome
by Sarita FreedmanFreedman outlines the skills required for success in further and higher education in relation to the strengths and weaknesses of individuals with ASDs, and explains how those weaknesses can be ameliorated to enable success at college. She provides intervention strategies that can be implemented throughout the period leading up to college entrance.
The Insightful Body: Healing with SomaCentric Dialoguing
by Julie McKaySomaCentric Dialoguing offers therapists effective techniques for improving communication with clients, and for helping clients articulate the messages of their body. In this accessible introduction to the approach, Julie McKay outlines the core techniques, describing how they can be applied to make therapeutic sessions more effective.
Asperger Syndrome and Anxiety: A Guide to Successful Stress Management
by Nick DubinThis book offers practical advice on how individuals with AS can manage their anxiety more effectively. Dubin shares his own tried and tested solutions along with up-to-date research on stress management for individuals with AS. He explores key problem areas that can lead to anxiety such as lack of social skills.
Using Expressive Arts to Work with Mind, Body and Emotions: Theory and Practice
by Mark Pearson Helen WilsonThis book combines theory, research and activities to produce practical suggestions for enhancing client participation in the therapy process. It surveys the literature on art therapy; somatic approaches; emotion-activating models; use of music, writing and dreamwork; and the implications of the new findings in neuroscience.
Getting to Grips with Asperger Syndrome: Understanding Adults on the Autism Spectrum
by Carol HaglandThis is a guide for those caring for or supporting an adult with AS. It will help them understand the condition and the difficulties it may cause so that they can offer support. Practical strategies are offered to combat problems that may arise, and common issues that specifically occur with individuals diagnosed later in life are addressed.
Faith and Fertility: Attitudes Towards Reproductive Practices in Different Religions from Ancient to Modern Times
by Gautam Allahbadia Titilayo Aderibigbe Michael Barnhart Swati Allahbadia Ray Noble Cecilia Chan Jim Richards Phyllis Creighton Mohammad Iqbal Gideon Weitzman Celia Chan Hoi Yan Mark Washofsky Sulbha AroraFaith and Fertility is a comprehensive collection of essays by academics and faith leaders. The reader is introduced to the cultural and religious understanding of fertility as it is practised among diverse international faith traditions. Each chapter is written in an accessible style, outlining each faith's history, core beliefs and values.
Reflecting On and Developing Your Practice: A Workbook for Social Care Workers (Knowledge and Skills for Social Care Workers)
by Suzan CollinsWorking in residential or domiciliary settings involves a continuing process of learning. Every day, social care workers face challenges that force them to think about what they do and how they do it. This is an interactive workbook providing social care workers with guidance on how to improve your knowledge through training and development.
Reflective Practice in Mental Health: Advanced Psychosocial Practice with Children, Adolescents and Adults (Reflective Practice In Social Care Ser.)
by Sarah Carr Caroline Grimbly Don Brand Felicity De Zulueta Florian Ruths Judith Lask Paul Godin Paul Richards Pete Fleischmann Rebecca Peters Tirril Harris Tony WestThe book addresses the complexities and dilemmas faced by practitioners involved in mental health care, and enable the reader to reflect on their understanding. Case studies covering psychodynamic theory, cognitive behavioural therapy, systemic family therapy, attachment therapy and therapeutic group-work are also included.
Adopting after Infertility: Messages from Practice, Research and Personal Experience
by Gayle Letherby Gill Haworth Jan Way Jenny Gwilt Julia Feast Lone Schmidt Lorraine Culley Nicola Hudson Penny Netherwood Peter Selman Petra Thorn Sally Baffour Anthea HendryKnight Olga Van Van den AkkerAdopting after Infertility is an informative interdisciplinary book that addresses the issues that professionals and adopters themselves face when going through the adoption process and the impact of infertility on their experiences. The book includes chapters on the effects of infertility, why people choose adoption and the assessment process.
A Non-Violent Resistance Approach with Children in Distress: A Guide for Parents and Professionals
by David Aldridge Carmelite Avraham-KrehwinkelParents, teachers and other professionals often struggle to know how to deal with disruptive, abusive or aggressive behaviour. This book addresses the urgent need for a realistic, practical and effective approach to dealing with severe disruptive behaviour in children and adolescents.
The Love-Shy Survival Guide
by Talmer ShockleyLove-shyness is a condition which causes a phobia of romantic and sexual situations. This book is designed to help Love-Shys overcome this fear and to meet, date, and maintain romantic relationships. A self-confessed Love-Shy, Shockley explores the condition, its links with Asperger's Syndrome and how it differs from normal shyness.
Cha Dao: The Way of Tea, Tea as a Way of Life
by Solala TowlerIn China, the practice of drinking tea is about much more than soaking leaves in a cup of hot water. Cha Dao takes us on a fascinating journey through the Way of Tea, from its origins in the sacred temples of ancient China, through its links to Daoist concepts such as or non-striving, to the affinity between Tea Mind and the Japanese spirit of Zen.