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Music and the Social Model: An Occupational Therapist's Approach to Music with People Labelled as Having Learning Disabilities
by Jane WilliamsAccessible and inspirational, the unique approaches in this book provide everything you need to know to empower people with learning difficulties to experience and enjoy music. Written from an Occupational Therapy perspective, it offers a host of tips, resources and examples, including downloadable tracks performed and composed by The LA Buskers.
Can I tell you about Dementia?: A guide for family, friends and carers (Can I tell you about...?)
by Jude WeltonMeet Jack - an older man with dementia. Jack invites readers to learn about dementia from his perspective, helping them to understand the challenges faced by someone with dementia and the changes it causes to memory, communication and behaviour. This illustrated book is an ideal way to introduce dementia to children and aid family discussions.
Involving Senior Citizens in Group Music Therapy
by Joseph PinsonThis practical guide to running music therapy groups with senior citizens provides effective strategies that encourage therapists to be creative and engaging, and involve participants fully in the music-making process. The author explains how to choose or create music that is accessible to older people, relating to the group's shared experiences.
Mediation Skills and Strategies: A Practical Guide
by Tony WhatlingA concise text that offers a straightforward, comprehensive collection of mediator skills and strategies. Combines hands on advice, theory and practical examples for novice and experienced mediators.
Safeguarding Adults and the Law
by Michael MandelstamThe safeguarding of vulnerable adults continues to increase in importance. Now in its second edition, this book sets this complex area of work within an extensive legal framework, providing many useful pointers for practitioners and students. It comprehensively reflects recent changes to the law, and includes many new case studies.
Attachment in Common Sense and Doodles: A Practical Guide
by Miriam SilverAn informal introduction to attachment and what it means for understanding and helping children who have experienced trauma, neglect or abuse. Doodles featuring throughout the book bring the ideas to life - ideal for parents or professionals caring for fostered, adopted and looked after children.
Adoption Is a Family Affair!: What Relatives and Friends Must Know, Revised Edition
by Patricia Irwin JohnstonThis book is packed with everything you need to know if a friend or family member is going to adopt or has adopted a child. Answering questions on how adoption works, how kids understand adoption as they grow up, what your role will be, and more, it will help to encourage informed, happy and healthy family relationships.
Working with Drug and Alcohol Users: A Guide to Providing Understanding, Assessment and Support
by Tony WhiteAn accessible guide to providing effective support to substance users. The book uses transactional analysis to provide models for understanding substance use, assessing clients, intervention and treatment. Counseling techniques such as motivational interviewing and relapse process work are included, and case studies feature throughout.
How Behavioral Optometry Can Unlock Your Child's Potential: Identifying and Overcoming Blocks to Concentration, Self-Esteem and School Success with Vision Therapy
by Joel H. WarshowskyThis comprehensive guide to behavioral optometry and vision therapy will be a welcome resource for adults investigating how to best help children whose lives are negatively impacted by vision problems. It fully explains the variety of conditions that could be causing problems and the therapies, techniques and aids that can treat them.
Party Planning for Children and Teens on the Autism Spectrum: How to Avoid Meltdowns and Have Fun!
by Kate E ReynoldsThis book highlights the aspects of parties that can cause anxiety for those on the autism spectrum and outlines practical solutions to these issues. It covers party invitations, prizes, food and venues, with chapters suggesting activities for age groups 2-8, 9-12 and teenagers and will enable caregivers to plan stress free parties with ease.
Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft Revised Edition
by Mary Hopkins-BestThis book offers support and practical tools to help parents prepare for and support the toddler's transition between the familiar environment of their biological parent's home or foster home to a new and unfamiliar one, and considers the issues that arise at different developmental stages.
Parenting Girls on the Autism Spectrum: Overcoming the Challenges and Celebrating the Gifts
by Eileen Riley-HallEach chapter in this book explores a topic of concern for parents of children on the autism spectrum, offering support on issues such as school, friendships, meltdowns, special gifts, therapies and interventions. This book is full of advice and insight on the unique and rewarding challenges presented when you have a daughter on the autism spectrum.
Can I tell you about Selective Mutism?: A guide for friends, family and professionals (Can I tell you about...?)
by Alison Wintgens Maggie JohnsonHannah invites readers to learn about selective mutism from her perspective, helping them to understand what it is and what it feels like to have SM. This illustrated book is packed with accessible information that will be an ideal introduction for family, friends and teachers, clearly showing them how they can support a child with the condition.
Reflections of Body Image in Art Therapy: Exploring Self through Metaphor and Multi-Media
by Margaret R HunterThe art-based activities in this book use a range of media to engage with common body image concerns and encourage self acceptance. It will be valuable to professionals working with girls and women struggling with eating disorders. All the exercises, and their benefits, are fully explained with illustrative case studies and sample artworks.
Effective Working with Neglected Children and their Families: Linking Interventions to Long-term Outcomes (Safeguarding Children Across Services)
by Elaine Farmer Eleanor LutmanUsing findings from a research study conducted over five years, this book gives an insight into current social care provision for children suffering from neglect. It highlights the complex and enduring needs of the children most likely to drop out of range of social care systems, and offers practical guidelines for reengaging children and services.
Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma
by Deborah D. GrayThis is a comprehensive guide to nurturing adoptions, explaining the theory behind the impact of neglect and trauma on children's development, and what attachment means. It provides professionals with the knowledge and advice they need to help adoptive families build positive relationships and help children heal.
Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents
by Deborah D. GrayThis classic text is a comprehensive guide for prospective and actual adoptive parents on how to understand and care for their adopted child and promote healthy attachment. It explains what attachment is and provides parenting techniques matched to children's emotional needs and stages to enhance children's happiness and emotional health.
The Adventure of Maisie Voyager
by Lucy SkyeWhen Maisie's Aunt Hetty is kidnapped, a trail of cryptic clues lead her to abandoned mines and a hunt for treasure. It is up to her to save her family and she has a big adventure and big decisions ahead. This captivating novel offers a positive heroine with a unique outlook on life that all children will relate to, especially those with autism.
How to Give Clients the Skills to Stop Panic Attacks: Don't Forget to Breathe
by Sandra ScheinbaumA guide to overcoming panic attacks through lifestyle change and mind-body relaxation, this book promotes breathing techniques as the foundation to controlling anxiety. Including step-by-step exercises and motivational scripts, it is an invaluable resource for mental health professionals that helps provide additional support to clients.
Autism All-Stars: How We Use Our Autism and Asperger Traits to Shine in Life
by Temple Grandin Stephen Shore Donna Williams Deborah Lipsky Wendy Lawson Stan Hood Mark Mark Boerebach Roger Meyer Iain Payne Colin Webber Peter Myers Sondra Williams Malcolm Johnson Jessica Peers William Hadcroft Damian Santomauro Yenn Purkis Robert McLachlan Leith McMurray`Contributors from across the world share their experiences of creating a successful life on the autism spectrum. The positive and inspiring voices in this book explain how it is possible to draw on autistic strengths not just to make your way in the world, overcoming challenges and obstacles, but also to make your life a real success.
Palliative Care, Ageing and Spirituality: A Guide for Older People, Carers and Families
by Elizabeth MacKinlayThis sensitive and compassionate book provides older people who are nearing the end of life and their loved ones, as well as the professionals who work with them, with a greater depth of understanding of spiritual issues surrounding death and dying.
Attachment, Trauma, and Healing: Understanding and Treating Attachment Disorder in Children, Families and Adults
by Michael Orlans Terry M. LevyClear and authoritative, this is a comprehensive overview of attachment theory, covering how attachment issues manifest and the authors' unique treatment models, 'corrective attachment therapy' and 'corrective attachment parenting'. This updated edition incorporates advances in child and family psychology that have occurred since the first edition.
Little Volcanoes: Helping Young Children and Their Parents to Deal with Anger
by Éliane Whitehouse Warwick PudneyThis book is packed with advice and strategies for understanding and managing anger in children under five, with guidance on how to help a parent or caregiver to cope with their angry feelings too. The authors outline the different reasons children may feel, and offer strategies to combat negative feelings and minimize outbursts.
The Equality Act 2010 in Mental Health: A Guide to Implementation and Issues for Practice
by Melba Wilson Sarah Carr Cheryl Brodie Barbara Vincent Sue Waterhouse Eleanor Hope Scott And Durairaj Tony Jameson-Allen Marcel Vige Peter Gilbert Jo HonigmannThe Equality Act 2010 in Mental Health provides a critical guide to the Act: what it means for mental health services and how it should be implemented. It addresses each of the nine characteristics protected by the Act in turn, examining the research and practice issue associated with each and offering positive guidance.
22 Things a Woman with Asperger's Syndrome Wants Her Partner to Know
by Rudy SimoneRudy Simone covers 22 common areas of confusion for someone dating a female with AS, including advice from her own experience and that of other couples. She talks with humour and honesty about the little things that might be different from a relationship with a neurotypical woman and discusses first dates, sex, and even having children.