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View book details for Enriched Care Planning for People with Dementia
A Good Practice Guide to Delivering Person-Centred Care
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
The correlation between 'disengagement' and illness in people with dementia living in long-term care settings is becoming more widely recognised, and developing and adapting front-line staff responses to the changing needs of individuals is a crucial factor in addressing this …
View book details for Multicoloured Mayhem
Parenting the Many Shades of Adolescents and Children with Autism, Asperger Syndrome and AD/HD
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Jacqui Jackson has seven children. Luke (author of Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome) has Asperger Syndrome, Joe has ADHD, and Ben has autism. Life is anything but straightforward, but the chaos of the Jacksons' lives is threaded through with humor …
View book details for Poetry and Story Therapy
The Healing Power of Creative Expression
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Poetry and short stories can act as powerful springboards to growth, self-enhancement and healing. With the guidance of a skilled facilitator, participants can engage with their own creative expression, and with that of others, and in doing so find opportunities …
View book details for The Jumbled Jigsaw
An Insider's Approach to the Treatment of Autistic Spectrum `Fruit Salads'
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
The Jumbled Jigsaw exposes autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) not as single entities but as a combination of a whole range of often untreated, sometimes easily treatable, underlying conditions. Exploring everything from mood, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive and tic disorders to information processing …
View book details for Art Therapy and Postmodernism
Creative Healing Through a Prism
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
This comprehensive book brings together the voices of international art therapists with diverse backgrounds and experiences and asks them to consider the role of postmodernism in their understanding of art therapy. These practitioners share a common postmodern belief that art …
View book details for Quality Matters in Children's Services
Messages from Research
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Quality Matters in Children's Services brings together authoritative research to explore critical concerns for those working with vulnerable children, young people and their families. Subjects covered include reunification, stability and wellbeing, kinship care, educating vulnerable young people, child protection, domestic …
View book details for Fragrance and Wellbeing
Plant Aromatics and Their Influence on the Psyche
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
For thousands of years fragrance has been used, across many varied cultures, for altering mental and emotional states, and as part of spiritual practice. This book explores the impact of fragrance on the psyche from biological, anthropological, perfumery and aromatherapy …
View book details for Introducing Advocacy
The First Book of Speaking Up: A Plain Text Guide to Advocacy
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
The book is clearly written and is consistent in style and presentation. Advocacy draws attention to the need for the individual's views to be expressed, communicated and understood by those around them and that advocacy is not what other people …
View book details for Improving Memory through Creativity
A Professional's Guide to Culturally Sensitive Cognitive Training with Older Adults
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Creativity stimulates older adults both mentally and emotionally and has numerous cognitive and social benefits. Providing culturally-sensitive strategies for improving memory through creativity, this timely book outlines innovative techniques and gives essential insight into effective clinical work in a world …
View book details for New Developments in Autism
The Future is Today
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
This international collection provides a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge research on autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) by well-known experts in the field, stressing the importance of early diagnosis and a good working relationship between parents and professionals. The contributors cover a …
View book details for Assessing Children's Needs and Circumstances
The Impact of the Assessment Framework
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Drawing on in-depth interviews with social workers and their managers, and families and young people themselves, the authors of this important book show how the principles embodied in the Assessment Framework have been applied to social work practice. Revisiting the …
View book details for Being White in the Helping Professions
Developing Effective Intercultural Awareness
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
In this reflective yet practical book, the author challenges white helping professionals to recognize their own cultural identity and the impact it has when practising in a multicultural environment.Judy Ryde reveals how white people have implicit and explicit advantages and …
View book details for Integrated Yoga
Yoga with a Sensory Integrative Approach
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Practising yoga creates a sense of calm and focus and heightens awareness of the body's functions and movements. For children with sensory processing difficulties - because they either have low sensory thresholds and are overwhelmed by sensory stimulation, or because …
View book details for Meeting the Needs of Ethnic Minority Children - Including Refugee, Black and Mixed Parentage Children
A Handbook for Professionals Second Edition
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Experts from a variety of disciplines contribute to this substantially revised edition of this popular handbook - new chapters are included on identity work, refugee children, and the work of the Asian Project. The book also examines the central importance …
View book details for Asperger Syndrome in Adolescence
Living with the Ups, the Downs and Things in Between
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Childhood and adult experiences of individuals with Asperger Syndrome (AS) are becoming increasingly well documented, yet the crucial formative teenage years have, so far, been neglected. Adolescence is a difficult time for any teenager, but when you have Asperger Syndrome …
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
In the United States alone, there are roughly three million individuals living with a developmental disability, but less than a third are active in the labor market. This book provides a comprehensive approach to developing a successful jobs program for …
View book details for Qigong for Multiple Sclerosis
Finding Your Feet Again
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
This book has been written to help people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) improve their physical and psychological functioning using the Chinese system of movement and meditation known as Qigong, closely related to Tai Chi. Qigong focuses on the important basic …
View book details for Blue Bottle Mystery
An Asperger Adventure
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
This is a warm, fun-filled fantasy story for children with a difference: the hero is Ben, a boy with Asperger Syndrome. When Ben and his friend Andy find an old bottle in the school yard, they little realize the surprises …
View book details for Living Alongside a Child's Recovery
Therapeutic Parenting with Traumatized Children
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Conventional parenting is not adequate to address the needs of children whose emotional development has been frozen, distorted or interrupted as a result of trauma. Therapeutic parenting is a psychodynamic model of parenting tailored for traumatized children, providing a safe, …
View book details for Working with Gangs and Young People
A Toolkit for Resolving Group Conflict
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Concern about gang culture is on the increase, but remains surrounded by myths. While gangs may lead young people into dangerous situations and breed community division, distrust and fear, the friendship, support, security and sense of belonging they offer are …
View book details for The Time of the Therapeutic Communities
People, Places and Events
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
From the 1950s onwards different movements, ideas and key figures have contributed to the initiative which is now recognized as Therapeutic Communities (TCs). This book follows these post-war changes (such as "libertarianism" and the "open door movement") through to the …
View book details for A Toss of the Dice
Stories from a Pediatrician's Practice
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Our hopes and dreams for our children are deeply felt by all parents. When we realize our children cannot fully achieve what we had hoped for them, it is a grief that tears at our hearts... The bottom line is …
View book details for What Makes a Good Nurse
Why the Virtues are Important for Nurses
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
In recent years, the human values at the heart of the nursing profession seem to have become side-lined by an increased focus on managerialist approaches to health care provision. Nursing's values are in danger of becoming marginalised further precisely because …
View book details for Sexuality and Severe Autism
A Practical Guide for Parents, Caregivers and Health Educators
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Sexual health and sexuality can be difficult subjects for parents and caregivers to broach with autistic children, made more challenging when children are at the severe end of the autism spectrum. Some parents may even question the validity of teaching …
View book details for Help for the Child with Asperger's Syndrome
A Parent's Guide to Negotiating the Social Service Maze
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Parents of children diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome frequently find themselves embarking on an exhausting and disheartening hunt for the services and interventions that their child needs - and is entitled to. Gretchen Mertz presents a readable and comprehensive parent's guide …
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