Jessica: 2764 books
Attaching Through Love, Hugs and Play
Simple Strategies to Help Build Connections with Your Child
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Capturing the warmth and fun of forming close relationships with children, this book offers simple advice to parents of children who find it difficult to attach and bond - whether following adoption, divorce or other difficult experiences.
Attachment therapist Deborah D. Gray describes how...
Understanding Dyspraxia
A Guide for Parents and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
This fully-updated second edition of Helping Children with Dyspraxia has been revised to reflect current practice and developments, providing clear and positive answers to questions commonly asked by parents and teachers about dyspraxia.
Maureen Boon draws on her considerable experience of...
by Jessica Whitethread
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
How Rachel ended up babysitting for the most eligible single father in the greater metro area, she still doesn't really understand.
Pierce Krakauer is any girl's dream, and twice a week the handsome thirty-five year old personally gives her a ride home after babysits his infant son. She can't...
Toddler Adoption
The Weaver's Craft
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Toddler Adoption looks at the unique joys and challenges of adopting and parenting a toddler. When a child aged is adopted between the ages of 12 to 36 months, they often show signs of cognitive and emotional immaturity, which can cause behavioral and relational issues. This book offers support and...
Attaching in Adoption
Practical Tools for Today's Parents
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Attaching in Adoption is a comprehensive guide for prospective and actual adoptive parents on how to understand and care for their adopted child and promote healthy attachment. This classic text provides practical parenting strategies designed to enhance children's happiness and emotional health....
by Sherrie Eldridge
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
As an adoptee, do you have mixed feelings about your adoption? If you do, you are not alone - adoptees often experience complex feelings of grief, anger, and questions about their identity.
Sherrie Eldridge is an adoptee and adoption expert, and in this book she draws on her personal experiences...
Follow the Child
Planning and Having the Best End-of-Life Care for Your Child
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Drawing on her family's own experiences and those of other parents facing the death of a child from illness or a life-limiting condition, Sacha Langton-Gilks explains the challenges, planning, and conversations that can be expected during this traumatic period. Practical advice such as how to work...
Addressing the Challenging Behavior of Children with High-Functioning Autism/Asperger Syndrome in the Classroom
A Guide for Teachers and Parents
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2002
How do teachers and parents of children with autism address a child's social skills? And what do they do about problem behaviors? This book provides possible explanations for these behaviours, and a wealth of practical help for both teachers and parents to address them. Teachers learn how to create...
The Art of Business
A Guide to Self-Employment for Creative Arts Therapists
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2013
Working as an independent contractor or in private practice is often the ideal scenario for creative therapists who want to control their own career and make decisions about the jobs and clients they take on. This practical guide to successful self-employment takes you through every step of the process,...
Next Steps in Parenting the Child Who Hurts
Tykes and Teens
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
Written by an experienced adoptive parent, this clear, sensitive and practical handbook is designed to encourage and support adoptive and long-term foster parents, their children and adolescents. An adopted child may well have suffered abuse, neglect or inconsistent parenting in the past; he or she...
Parenting without Panic
A Pocket Support Group for Parents of Children and Teens on the Autism Spectrum (Asperger's Syndrome)
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Ever wish that parenting a child or teen on the autism spectrum came with instant access to a support group?
Brenda Dater has provided parents with exactly that. In this book she draws on her extensive experience as a support group leader and parent of a child on the spectrum to offer trusted...
by Vera I Fahlberg
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Children who are cared for in an out of home placement are in need of support and stability. This classic text offers information and advice for professionals and carers on how to help these children, who will often have attachment difficulties.
Vera I. Fahlberg, M.D. shares her experience...
Counselling Skills for Becoming a Wiser Practitioner
Tools, Techniques and Reflections for Building Practice Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Conveying the reality of the counselling room, this book provides helpful tips and techniques to enable practitioners to develop and refine their skills.
At the heart of this book is the idea of 'situated action'. By this we mean suspending purely intellectual faculties and exploring a different...
Narrative Play Therapy
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
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...