Jessica Kingsley Publishers: 1951 books
Supporting People through Loss and Grief
An Introduction for Counsellors and Other Caring Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
What are the different theories of grief? What skills do you need for effective counselling? How can you support people experiencing loss and grief?
This handbook provides a comprehensive guide to counselling and supporting people experiencing loss and grief. It introduces the different models...
Effective Grief and Bereavement Support
The Role of Family, Friends, Colleagues, Schools and Support Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
` …a profoundly significant book on a topic rarely discussed and little researched, dealing with sudden or unexpected death. The authors have brought together the latest knowledge in the field, and explore how social networks and professionals working with the bereaved can help. This is an important...
Grief Demystified
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Being able to offer support to the bereaved is an important part of many frontline professions, such as nurses, teachers, funeral directors and anything in between. Yet very little theoretical information about grief has filtered down into mainstream knowledge, and what has is often misinterpreted.
Giving...
The Simple Guide to Child Trauma
What It Is and How to Help
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
· What is trauma?
· How does it affect children?
· How can adults help?
Providing straightforward answers to these complex questions, The Simple Guide to Child Trauma is the perfect starting point for any adult caring for or working with a child who has experienced trauma. It will help them...
Successful Project Management in Social Work and Social Care
Managing Resources, Assessing Risks and Measuring Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Managers in social work and social care contexts are required to manage a wide range of projects: long-term and short-term, on large and small scales, in partnership with other agencies, and covering a broad range of issues and contexts.
Management of these projects requires specific expertise,...
by Hilary Comfort, Liz Hoggarth
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
*Highly Commended in the Health and Social Care category of the 2011 BMA Medical Book Awards*
For those involved in commissioning and running projects working with people, measuring performance and assessing outcomes are an essential part of applying for and maintaining funding, and a way of...
by Anne Murphy, Sonia Ospina, Ashly Pinnington
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Social care needs excellent leaders now more than ever. Effective leaders aim high, listen to what the service users want and need, inspire their staff and continually question what they are doing and why.
This book draws together the latest research on fundamental leadership issues in social...
Freefall into Fiction
Finding Form
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Barbara Turner-Vesselago's first book, Writing Without a Parachute, showed writers how to fall in love with writing. This new book builds on this experience and encourages writers to pursue their work with intention and without inhibition.
Freefall into Fiction: Finding Form is designed to...
by William Hague, Mary McAleese, John Hall
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Now more than ever, public servants must consider and reassess how to keep moral courage in public life alive. With ethical expectations and needs changing and government policies under increasing moral scrutiny, Claire Foster-Gilbert of Westminster Abbey Institute gathers a series of essays and lectures...
Inside Transracial Adoption
Strength-based, Culture-sensitizing Parenting Strategies for Inter-country or Domestic Adoptive Families That Don't "Match", Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Is transracial adoption a positive choice for kids?
How can children gain their new families without losing their birth heritage?
How can parents best support their children after placement?
Inside Transracial Adoption is an authoritative guide to navigating the challenges and issues that parents...
A Creative Guide to Exploring Your Life
Self-Reflection Using Photography, Art, and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
An award-winning psychologist and professional photographer join forces in writing this unique creative guide to exploring and understanding your life: who you are, what you value, and what you wish to achieve.
A Creative Guide to Exploring Your Life brims with imaginative exercises and examples...
Writing Without a Parachute
The Art of Freefall
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Writing Without a Parachute: The Art of Freefall shows both beginning and experienced writers how to get the thinking mind to step aside, so that writing becomes truly creative - a vulnerable and open-hearted engagement with the moment. Here for the first time, writing teacher Barbara Turner-Vesselago...
Video Modeling for Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
A Practical Guide for Parents and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Video modeling takes visual learning to the next level by using new technologies to create an effective teaching tool. This book explains how professionals and parents can use innovative video modeling techniques to support the development of young children with autism spectrum disorders in school,...
by Shaun McNiff
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1998
Art therapy and all of the other creative arts therapies have promoted themselves as ways of expressing what cannot be conveyed in conventional language. Why is it that creative arts therapists fail to apply this line of thinking to research? In this exciting and innovative book, Shaun McNiff, one...