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View book details for Asperger Syndrome and Anxiety
A Guide to Successful Stress Management
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Many people suffer from feelings of stress and anxiety in their everyday lives. For people with Asperger Syndrome (AS), this stress can be particularly difficult to manage. On a daily basis people with AS must fit into a world that …
View book details for Speaking of Dying
A Practical Guide to Using Counselling Skills in Palliative Care
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Good counselling skills are often not taught to the professionals who need them most. Compassionate and tactful communication skills can make the difference between an awkward encounter with a dying patient, and an engaging, empathic bond between two people.Louis Heyse-Moore …
View book details for Independence, Social, and Study Strategies for Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
The BASICS College Curriculum
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
The BASICS College Curriculum presents a hands-on approach to learning essential life and study skills for college students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This book focuses on the transition to college, developing key academic skills, navigating campus social life, and …
View book details for Let's Learn About Adoption
The Adoption Club Therapeutic Workbook on Adoption and Its Many Different Forms
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
There are many kinds of adoption -- and in this workbook the children of The Adoption Club find out about all of them!The children of The Adoption Club are all different. There's Mary who was adopted from China by her …
View book details for Seated Taiji and Qigong
Guided Therapeutic Exercises to Manage Stress and Balance Mind, Body and Spirit
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Practising Taiji and Qigong is the perfect antidote to the stresses of modern life and a great way to stay healthy. Now caring professionals can help those with limited mobility to experience the benefits of Taiji and Qigong with this …
View book details for The Overweight Patient
A Psychological Approach to Understanding and Working with Obesity
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
`Kathy Leach provides a thoughtful, well-written text that addresses the `great weight debate' in an engaging and compassionate way.'-The Psychologist, Vol. 20, March 2007`The main body of the book focuses on clinical work, offering insightful ways of thinking about and …
View book details for Can I tell you about ADHD?
A guide for friends, family and professionals
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Meet Ben - a young boy with ADHD. Ben invites readers to learn about ADHD from his perspective. He helps children understand what it means to have ADHD and describes what it is and how it feels. Ben explains how …
View book details for Betraying the NHS
Health Abandoned
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Based on his experiences of helping to fight cuts and closures in Suffolk, Michael Mandelstam delivers a damning verdict on the mismanagement of the NHS at national, regional and local level. He charts the widespread cutbacks and closures, both rural …
View book details for Taking Liberty
A guide to secure accomodation for children and young people
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
First published in 1998, this guide aims to help children and young people understand why they have been placed in secure accommodation and what to expect while they are there. Concise and easy to read, Taking Liberty answers some of …
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
This professional text covers every aspect of Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD), from science to services, from the most disabling Kanner's syndrome to the most high-functioning Asperger syndrome, and from birth to old age. The book contains the latest research on …
View book details for The Compassionate Practitioner
How to create a successful and rewarding practice
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Focusing on the importance of relationship-building, this handbook explains how to turn new clients into regulars and make your practice flourish.If you can create trust, loyalty and a sense of safety in new clients, they are more likely to commit …
View book details for Too Safe For Their Own Good?, Second Edition
Helping children learn about risk and life skills
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Young children have a limited understanding of the risks surrounding them: they fall over, bang their heads, scrape their knees and worse. Parents and practitioners can try to create a risk-free environment, but this can reduce children's chances to to …
View book details for Teaching at Home
A New Approach to Tutoring Children with Autism and Asperger Syndrome
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
This book offers inspiration and encouragement for parents of children with Autism or Asperger syndrome who are considering home schooling their children, and also provides useful pointers for teachers and carers.'- Link: Autism Europe'In this resource for parents, Holland describes …
View book details for Narrative Play Therapy
Theory and Practice
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Narrative Play Therapy is a highly effective play-based psychological intervention that enables therapists to help children communicate difficult experiences and complex emotions through co-constructed stories. This is the definitive guide to the approach, offering both a coherent theoretical outline and …
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Children's homes in England must follow rules, or standards, that are set by the government. This guide tells you what the rules are, and how they apply to you and to where you live.Use this guide to find out about …
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 …
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
This pocket-sized guide can be taken conveniently to meetings, interviews and visits, to be used as a quick reference point for information about the practical application of restorative justice.The book covers every stage of the process, from how a facilitator …
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Seb is a loner. Brilliant with numbers but hopeless with people, he prefers the company of computers and his only friend, Guzzle. Things change for the better when he makes friends with Kristie, Madeline and Jen, and a new computer …
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
The protection of vulnerable adults is a fast emerging area of work for local authorities, the NHS and other agencies. Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and the Law, sets this within a comprehensive legal framework. The relevant law and guidance is extensive. …
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