Jessica: 2764 books
Art Therapy with Children on the Autistic Spectrum
Beyond Words
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2001
Recent research has shown that art therapy can be particularly effective for children with autism and related communication disorders. The extensive range of symptoms experienced by autistic people makes them extremely individual in presentation, so any treatment used must be tailored to a range of...
Self-Neglect and Hoarding
A Guide to Safeguarding and Support
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Self-neglect and hoarding is present in 1 of 5 social work cases in mental health and older people's services. These cases can be the most alarming and challenging on a social worker's caseload.
A skilled, thorough risk assessment of the behaviours of self-neglect is needed in order to ensure...
by Jessica Jung
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
This book contains inspirational messages God has given me over a matter of months that I now would like to share with the world. It contains my personal testimony as well as love letters I have written to God. I have written this to inspire others to form a more intimate relationship with God and...
Exploiting Childhood
How Fast Food, Material Obsession and Porn Culture are Creating New Forms of Child Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Children deserve to live a life that is safe from exploitation and harm, but are we failing in our duty to protect them?
Childhood today is big business - it is impossible for any child growing up to avoid pervasive and intense marketing from companies. Whether it be for fatty foods resulting...
Supporting Women after Domestic Violence
Loss, Trauma and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
This is really interesting and compelling book. Abrahams' writing style is readable and engaging and is interspersed with reference to research and powerfully, the words of women who have experienced domestic violence. Right from the beginning of this book, there are passages that challenge stereotypes...
Safeguarding Children Across Services
Messages from Research
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Safeguarding Children Across Services brings together the latest evidence on safeguarding children from abuse and neglect. Providing an overview of 15 research projects, it addresses the key policy and practice issues across health, social care and education services and the family justice system.
The...
by Linda Gast, Anne Patmore
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Central to a social worker's role is the ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds, but social workers can often feel anxious and unsure of how to approach anti-discriminatory practice.
This book, grounded in practice experience, is an accessible guide to diversity issues in social...
by Brian R King
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Containing life-changing strategies and solutions, this book will enable everyone who knows, lives with or works with an individual with autism to achieve a positive relationship that fosters cooperation and mutual respect.
The author has dedicated over 20 years to studying, observing and implementing...
The STAR Detective Facilitator Manual
A Cognitive Behavioral Group Intervention to Develop Skilled Thinking and Reasoning for Children with Cognitive, Behavioral, Emotional and Social Problems
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
The STAR Program is designed to teach children and those involved in their care psychological techniques to improve self-control and prosocial competence. The program employs cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) principles and uses a child-centered approach to teach attention skills, emotional control,...
Communication Skills for Working with Children and Young People
Introducing Social Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
For those working with children, effective communication is a crucial part of building relationships and encouraging children's emotional and intellectual development.
This practical guide identifies the child and their relationship with the adult as the basis upon which real communication...
Rebuilding Lives after Domestic Violence
Understanding Long-Term Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
Rebuilding Lives after Domestic Violence examines in-depth the long-term outcomes for women who have suffered domestic violence and abuse, based on interviews conducted over seven years.
Through these interviews the author reveals the factors which help or hinder a successful transition from...
by Maggie Kindred
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Practitioners in health and social care are often required to work with clients who do not want to work with them, and these 'reluctant' clients can often be the most challenging, but most rewarding, to work with.
This practical, jargon-free book covers all the issues that practitioners are...
An Asperger Dictionary of Everyday Expressions
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
This revised and expanded edition adds over 300 new expressions that help unlock the meaning of everyday expressions.
Both informative and entertaining, the book addresses an important aspect of social communication for people with Asperger Syndrome, who use direct, precise language and `take...
Preventing the Emotional Abuse and Neglect of People with Intellectual Disability
Stopping Insult and Injury
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
There's so many different types of abuse, and it all comes down to the same thing. It's making people nothing. And Fran was nothing. There was never anything nice said about her, everything was negative. And she had to put up with that, and we had to put up with that, until we all sort of believed...