Jessica Kingsley Publishers imprint: 1689 books
No Matter What
An Adoptive Family's Story of Hope, Love and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
'I love you, no matter what.' This book tells the uplifting true story of an ordinary couple who build an extraordinary family - describing Sally and Rob Donovan's journey from a diagnosis of infertility to their decision to adopt two children who suffered abuse in their early life. Writing with incisive...
Dance and Movement Sessions for Older People
A Handbook for Activity Coordinators and Carers
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
This practical handbook will empower activity coordinators and carers to run safe, rewarding and health-giving dance and movement sessions with older people, including with those who are frail, who have limited mobility or who are living with dementia.
The authors describe the many benefits...
What the hell happened to my brain?
Living Beyond Dementia
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Kate Swaffer was just 49 years old when she was diagnosed with a form of younger onset dementia. In this book, she offers an all-too-rare first-hand insight into that experience, sounding a clarion call for change in how we ensure a better quality of life for people with dementia.
Kate describes...
Activities for Older People in Care Homes
A Handbook for Successful Activity Planning
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1970
When tasked with providing activities for older people in care homes, it can be difficult to know where to begin. What constitutes an activity? How can you make sure activities are as positive and person-centred as possible? What can you actually do? Written by an experienced activity coordinator,...
by Sandy Burgener, Prudence Twigg
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Memory loss can create problems in every aspect of a person's life. The challenge of communicating thoughts and feelings can be made even harder by other people's negative perceptions of dementia.
This book provides practical guidance for coping with progressive memory loss, and includes examples...
People with Dementia Speak Out
Creative Ways to Achieve Focus and Attention by Building on AD/HD Traits
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
In People with Dementia Speak Out, twenty-three people from diverse backgrounds share their experiences of living with dementia.
The contributors are honest about the frustrations and fears they face, but overall there is remarkably little self-pity and a great deal of optimism. The personal...
by Rachel Thompson, Dave Pulsford
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
For friends, family members and carers of people with dementia, understanding the condition and coping with the impact it has on their lives can be extremely challenging. This book, written specifically for these groups, explores each stage of the "journey with dementia" and explains not...
Finding Meaning in the Experience of Dementia
The Place of Spiritual Reminiscence Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
This groundbreaking book is based on the findings of the first major study on spiritual reminiscence work with people with dementia. Carried out over a decade, the study confirmed spiritual reminiscence to be an effective means of helping people with dementia to find meaning in their own experience,...
Doll Therapy in Dementia Care
Evidence and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Advocating doll therapy as an intervention for people with dementia, this book combines theory and evidence to show its many benefits and present guidelines for best-practice.
Despite being widely and internationally used, doll therapy is a controversial and often misunderstood intervention....
The Looked After Kid, Revised Edition
My Life in a Children’s Home
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Placed in care at a very early age, Paolo Hewitt went to live with a foster family where he endured extreme abuse and humiliation.
Following years of abuse he was sent to Burbank children's home at the age of ten where he met a gang of children. Like him, they were outsiders struggling to find...
But We All Shine On
The Remarkable Orphans of Burbank Children's Home
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
We orphans are the most important kids in the world.'
Stepping into the past, Paolo Hewitt embarks upon an inspiring journey to track down a group of friends he grew up with at Burbank Children's Home.
We meet Des, the boy who reinvented himself; Norman, the runaway child who crossed...
Life Story Work with Children Who are Fostered or Adopted
Creative Ideas and Activities
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Life story work is one of the key therapeutic approaches to working with adopted or fostered children. While it sounds simple, there is much more to this work than producing photo albums or memory boxes for children.
This accessible book is full of tried and tested activities and creative ideas...
Girls Growing Up on the Autism Spectrum
What Parents and Professionals Should Know About the Pre-Teen and Teenage Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
'This book is not only reassuring; it is inspiring, and bursting with ideas and achievable strategies. The authors write with authority and conviction, and tackle even the most difficult and delicate of topics. If ever you needed to be convinced that girls with ASD can overcome the difficulties and...
LEGO®-Based Therapy
How to build social competence through LEGO®-based Clubs for children with autism and related conditions
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2014
This complete guide to LEGO® Therapy contains everything you need to know in order to set up and run a LEGO® Club for children with autism spectrum disorders or related social communication difficulties and anxiety conditions.
By providing a joint interest and goal, LEGO® building can become...