Jessica Kingsley Publishers imprint: 1689 books
Safeguarding Children Living with Trauma and Family Violence
Evidence-Based Assessment, Analysis and Planning Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Offering a systematic approach to evidence-based assessment and planning for children living with trauma and family violence, this practical book shows how to assess and analyse the needs of the child, make specialist assessments where there are continuing safeguarding concerns (using the Assessment...
Integrating Art Therapy and Yoga Therapy
Yoga, Art, and the Use of Intention
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
This dynamic approach to therapy combines yoga and art to heal the whole person - body, mind and spirit - through the use of intention.
In this practical guide art therapists will learn how to incorporate yoga poses, mudras and meditation, and yoga therapists to introduce art directives, into...
With Nature in Mind
The Ecotherapy Manual for Mental Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
What is ecotherapy, how does it relate to mental health, and how can it reduce emotional distress and promote general wellbeing?
This book explains how a deeper connection to nature can improve quality of life, by combining the therapeutic power of mindfulness and being out in the natural world....
Challenging Stress, Burnout and Rust-Out
Finding Balance in Busy Lives
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
A balanced lifestyle enhances health, happiness and wellbeing. With practical techniques and strategies, this book explores how this balance can be found and how stress and anxiety, which are linked to being overworked and over busy, may be alleviated.
It begins by examining the state of work-life...
Mindful Art Therapy
A Foundation for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2015
The mindful art therapy presented in this book places inner contemplation, openness and visual language at its centre, showing how traditional Eastern wisdom can be integrated into modern psychotherapeutic practice for mind-body wellness.
This book introduces a foundation for mindful art therapy...
Dramatherapy with Myth and Fairytale
The Golden Stories of Sesame
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Myths and fairytales are our rich heritage; a veritable feast of ancient wisdom passed down through the ages in the memorable form of stories. While almost any story will have deep meaning to some individuals, some of the time, this book presents a collection of stories that these maestros of dramatherapy...
The Core Concepts of Occupational Therapy
A Dynamic Framework for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
The profession of occupational therapy has a highly specialised language, but until now there have been no standard definitions of its key terms.
Based on the work of the terminology project group of the European Network of Occupational Therapy in Higher Education (ENOTHE), this book selects...
by Giorgos Tsiris, Camilla Farrant, Mercedes Pavlicevic
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
This practical guide aims to inspire ethically-aware practitioners to become ethically-aware researchers, evaluators and participants. Conducting a research project, whatever the setting, requires not only knowledge of research methods but also an in-depth understanding of research ethics. Embedded...
Collaboration and Assistance in Music Therapy Practice
Roles, Relationships, Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Relating the innovative ways in which assistants and collaborators can become an integral part of a course of music therapy, this book explores how the involvement of a diverse range of individuals, such as family members, learning support assistants, caregivers and medical staff, can contribute to...
Healing World Trauma with the Therapeutic Spiral Model
Psychodramatic Stories from the Frontlines
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
The Therapeutic Spiral Model (TSM) was developed as a clinical method of addressing deep issues of trauma, notably post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) relating to physical and emotional abuse and addiction. A modified form of classical psychodrama and experiential psychotherapy, it is today used...
How to Do Restorative Peer Mediation in Your School
A Quick Start Kit – Including Online Resources
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Developed for schools exploring the use of restorative approaches to conflict resolution, this manual explains how to set up and run a restorative peer mediation programme, to provide students with the skills needed to nurture a climate of care and co-operation. Peer mediation can help peers solve...
Cyberbullying and E-safety
What Educators and Other Professionals Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
“I'd die without my Blackberry” – one young person's comment sums up a generation of young people who are increasingly living their daily lives through their phones and the internet. Cyberbullying is rife, affecting one in five 10–19 year olds. It causes anxiety, unhappiness and mental health...
Life Skills and Career Coaching for Teens
A Practical Manual for Supporting School Engagement, Aspirations and Success in Young People aged 11–18
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Setting out a year-long curriculum based programme for education and youth professionals, this book provides a challenging and engaging workshop-based approach to developing school engagement and ambitions in young people aged 11-18.
The programme, which is informed by CBT, helps professionals...
Social Narratives
A Story Intervention for Children with Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Social Narratives are a simple, evidence-based intervention to help children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and other developmental delays to understand appropriate social behaviours and overcome the anxiety associated with social situations. This practical guide explains how to create and use...