Jessica: 2764 books
Understanding Dyscalculia and Numeracy Difficulties
A Guide for Parents, Teachers and Other Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Dyscalculia is a specific learning difficulty that affects the acquisition of numerical skills. A far larger number of pupils, while not dyscalculic, fail to acquire the basic numerical skills required for everyday life.
Whatever the cause of poor numeracy it is essential that these difficulties...
Gardening for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Special Educational Needs
Engaging with Nature to Combat Anxiety, Promote Sensory Integration and Build Social Skills
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Winner of the American Horticultural Therapy Association's Book Publication Award 2014
A garden or nature setting presents the perfect opportunity for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and special needs to learn, play and strengthen body and mind. This book empowers teachers and parents...
by Jessica Locke
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
If you’ve ever felt as though having people in your home and showing hospitality was difficult, frustrating, too much work, or too expensive, Simplified Hospitality is the book for you! Not sure what to do? Don’t have any extra money in your budget? Not sure how to involve the kids? Wondering...
All About Me
A Step-by-Step Guide to Telling Children and Young People on the Autism Spectrum about Their Diagnosis
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Based on direct work with over 250 individual children, Andrew Miller wrote this book in order to provide parents and professionals with information, tools and guidance to help introduce children to autism in the absence of specialist support. This in-depth guide describes the practicalities of disclosure,...
Ethical Maturity in the Helping Professions
Making Difficult Life and Work Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
How do we, as humans, arrive at what we call morally or ethically good or bad decisions? What processes are involved in making ethical decisions? Is there a way to move towards ethical maturity and how will being ethically mature assist us with any future decisions we might make?
Ethical Maturity...
Play Therapy with Abused Children
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
Praise for the first edition:
'Ann Cattanach writes with enormous empathy and warmth, and with a refreshing lack of sentimentality... [This] is an unpretentious and optimistic book, and a very positive addition to recent publications.'
- British Association of Play Therapists
'I...
Living with Emetophobia
Coping with Extreme Fear of Vomiting
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
Emetophobia, the extreme fear of vomiting, can affect just about every aspect of sufferer's life, from everyday considerations (`what food will be 'safe' for me to eat?') to matters that involve making huge, potentially devastating decisions (`I can't have this baby, I can't face morning sickness')....
Handbook for Practice Learning in Social Work and Social Care, Third Edition
Knowledge and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
This fully updated and expanded third edition of a classic text provides a comprehensive introduction to key theory, knowledge, research and evidence relating to practice learning in social work and social care.
It outlines the theories that underpin social care practice, the main assessment...
Substance Misuse
The Implications of Research, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Substance misuse and its pervasive problems is a constant challenge for social work, health and related professionals today. With heightened political and policy emphasis on all aspects of substance misuse, it is paramount that professionals remain up-to-date on current issues and their responsibilities....
Palliative Care, Ageing and Spirituality
A Guide for Older People, Carers and Families
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
This sensitive and compassionate book provides older people who are nearing the end of life and their loved ones, as well as the professionals who work with them, with a greater depth of understanding of spiritual issues surrounding death and dying. Illustrated with the experiences of many older people,...
Washing My Life Away
Surviving Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005
How many of us double check that we really have locked the door or switched off the iron? For some people, such mundane everyday worries can become life-ruining obsessions. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) affects one in fifty people and one of them was Ruth Deane. In this frank and personal account...
I Can Beat Obesity!
Finding the Motivation, Confidence and Skills to Lose Weight and Avoid Relapse
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
I Can Beat Obesity! is not just about losing weight. It is about changing your psychological mindset and finding the drive and strength to improve your health. Having recovered from disordered eating herself, Nicola Davies recognises that beating obesity is not about fad diets and yo-yoing weight,...
by Jane Barlow, Anita Schrader
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Emotional maltreatment is widespread and has a profoundly harmful effect on a child's development. The effects of abuse are often carried into adulthood, and emotionally abused children are more likely to experience a range of problems as adults including depression, substance misuse and eating disorders....
Surviving Post-Natal Depression
At Home, No One Hears You Scream
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2000
Research indicates that at least one in ten new mothers experience post-natal depression, yet there is little help available to sufferers. Cara Aiken's book will help them, and the professionals who work with them, to understand this illness. The book tells the stories of ten women from very different...