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View book details for Midnight's Captive: Part 3
The Dark Warriors
St. Martin's Press
The desireand dangerreaches the boiling point in the third installment of this exclusive Dark Warriors e-serial from New York Times bestselling author Donna Grant. With everything in their world changingfor better or for worseLaura and Charon do not know who …
View book details for Becoming Enemies
U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, 19791988
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Becoming Enemies brings the unique methods of critical oral history, developed to study flashpoints from the Cold War such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, to understand U.S. and Iranian relations from the fall of the Shah in 1978 through the …
View book details for DiMag & Mick
Sibling Rivals, Yankee Blood Brothers
Lyons Press
DiMag & Mick is a portrait of DiMaggio and Mantle as the old and young exemplars of what was a more confident, masterful age not only in baseball but in the country where they were held up as cultural heroes …
Scarecrow Press
The Lithuanian people have undergone historic changes quite different from those of other European nations. In earlier centuries geography provided strategic advantage and opportunities for expansion but in recent times the country has more often experienced location as a geopolitical …
View book details for Emergency Preparedness
A Safety Planning Guide for People, Property and Business Continuity
Bernan Press
Emergency Preparedness: A Safety Planning Guide for People, Property, and Business Continuity provides step-by-step instructions for developing prevention and response plans for all types of emergencies and disasters. It helps the reader to create an organization-wide emergency management plan that …
View book details for Young Children's Rights
Exploring Beliefs, Principles and Practice Second Edition
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published in association with Save the ChildrenPriscilla Alderson examines the often overlooked issue of the rights of young children, starting with the question of how the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child applies to the youngest children, …
View book details for What's Happening to Tom?
A book about puberty for boys and young men with autism and related conditions
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Tom notices that his body is changing. Tom's voice is different and hair is growing in new places. There are other changes happening too. Tom learns that he has started growing into a man. Following Tom as he begins to …
View book details for Creating Change for Complex Children and their Families
A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Multi-Family Work
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
The strain of caring for children struggling with severe and complex mental health needs affects the entire family. The staff at the innovative Croft Child and Family Unit have developed a unique approach of working intensively with the whole family, …
View book details for Supporting Positive Behaviour
A Workbook for Social Care Workers
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Communication problems, frustration and boredom can manifest themselves in physical outbursts, and working in a residential or domiciliary setting can involve responding to challenging behaviour towards staff and other residents. Supporting Positive Behaviour examines the underlying reasons for the behaviour, …
View book details for Can I tell you about Autism?
A guide for friends, family and professionals
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Meet Tom - a young boy with autism. Tom invites readers to learn about autism from his perspective, helping them to understand what it is and explaining the challenges he faces with issues such as social communication, sensory overload and …
View book details for A Community-Based Approach to the Reduction of Sexual Reoffending
Circles of Support and Accountability
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
A Circle of Support and Accountability is a group of trained volunteers who meet on a regular basis with a high risk sex offender living in their community. This innovative strategy, which helps the offender both to maintain accountability and …
View book details for Crystalline Lifetime
Fragments of Asperger Syndrome
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
This beautiful book is written by an astute 17 year-old with Aspergers Syndrome. It tells some of his life story in his own poetic words; I am sure many of you, with or without Aspergers, will relate to his poetry, …
View book details for Making Sense of Child and Family Assessment
How to Interpret Children's Needs
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
The application of assessment frameworks hinges on human qualities and skills which are naturally prone to bias and inconsistency. Making Sense of Child and Family Assessment aims to support workers in analysing and making sense of the information gathered, and …
View book details for Creating Person-Centred Organisations
Strategies and Tools for Managing Change in Health, Social Care and the Voluntary Sector
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Person-centred thinking and planning are approaches that enable people using social care and health services to plan their future, and use a personal budget to commission personalised services.Creating Person-Centred Organisations is a guide for organisations who want to deliver personalised …
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
When Mabelline sets out on a journey to visit her pen pal Rosa, she doesn't expect to be staying quite as long as she does. Mabelline quickly takes Rosa and her son Carlos to her heart, but she knows right …
View book details for Can I tell you about Peanut Allergy?
A guide for friends, family and professionals
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Meet Danny - a boy with a peanut allergy. He explains that peanut allergies can be very serious, but once you know how to manage them, they don't have to get in the way of living a fun and full …
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
The Social Worker's Guide to Child and Adolescent Mental Health provides a comprehensive guide to working with children and young people who are experiencing mental health problems, and equips the reader with the knowledge and skills to provide the best …
View book details for Music Therapy in Schools
Working with Children of All Ages in Mainstream and Special Education
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
The majority of music therapy work with children takes place in schools. This book documents the wealth and diversity of work that music therapists are doing in educational settings across the UK. It shows how, in recent years, music therapy …
View book details for Silent Grief
Living in the Wake of Suicide Revised Edition
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Silent Grief is a book for and about "suicide survivors" - those who have been left behind by the suicide of a friend or loved one.Author Christopher Lukas is a suicide survivor himself - several members of his family have …
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
This wide-ranging collection of essays offers valuable insights into the cultural issues involved in the practical application of social work theories. Leading contributors explore the challenges faced by indigenous populations and ethnic minority groups, examining how they can gain control …
View book details for Quality of Life and Disability
An Approach for Community Practitioners
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
A refreshing book that can hold the reader's interest throughout. Quality of Life and Disability should be a compulsory text for all students in the disability field and would make a useful one for experienced practitioners including social workers.'- Australian …
View book details for Healthy Care
Building an evidence base for promoting the health and well-being of looked after children and young people
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Children and young people who are looked after are among the most socially excluded of all young people. They are reported to have greater health needs than their peers, yet are less likely to receive adequate health care and treatment, …
View book details for Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children
Creative Ideas for Therapy, Life Story Work, Direct Work and Parenting
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children is full of creative ideas for how you can use stories therapeutically with children in counselling, life story work or direct work. Psychologist Kim S. Golding shows how you can use stories …
View book details for Hearing the Person with Dementia
Person-Centred Approaches to Communication for Families and Caregivers
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Losing the ability to communicate can be a frustrating and difficult experience for people with dementia, their families and carers. As the disease progresses, the person with dementia may find it increasingly difficult to express themselves clearly, and to understand …
View book details for Working with Parents of a Newly Diagnosed Child with an Autism Spectrum Disorder
A Guide for Professionals
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Finding out that a child has an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can put an enormous strain on families, and the quality of support offered by professionals at this time can make a huge difference to how they adjust to the …
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