Jessica Kingsley Publishers: 1951 books
How to Understand Your Gender
A Practical Guide for Exploring Who You Are
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
'For anyone who's ever wished they had a smart, kind, friend with whom they could calmly and safely discuss gender issues: this most excellent book is that kind of friend'. - Kate Bornstein, author of Gender Outlaw
Have you ever questioned your own gender identity? Do you know somebody who...
by Angie Ash
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Those who speak up about poor, corrupt or unethical practice often do so at a great personal cost. This timely book explores our understanding of the ethics of whistleblowing and shows how managers and organisations can support individuals speaking out.
While some professional guidelines formalize...
by Gillian Ruch, Fritz-Reudiger Volz, Joan Orme
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Excellent social work education and training is vital for ensuring best practice, and it is important to understand the key approaches and methods in order to provide the best teaching and ensure effective learning.
This volume provides an overview of social work education, including the background...
Relationship Development Intervention with Children, Adolescents and Adults
Social and Emotional Development Activities for Asperger Syndrome, Autism, PDD and NLD
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2002
Remove our emotional bonds with family, colleagues and friends and few of us would want to go on living. Yet establishing and maintaining such bonds is particularly difficult for people on the autism spectrum. This volume contains over 200 enjoyable and stimulating activities and exercises ranging...
Life Story Books for Adopted Children
A Family Friendly Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
Through words, pictures, photographs, certificates and other 'little treasures', a Life Story Book provides a detailed account of the child's early history and a chronology of their life. This clear and concise book shows a new family-friendly way to compile a Life Story Book that promotes a sense...
Violence Against Women
Current Theory and Practice in Domestic Abuse, Sexual Violence and Exploitation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Violence against women is a pervasive problem in society and responding appropriately to those who experience it and those who perpetrate it is a constant challenge for social work, health and related professions today.
This volume seeks to address issues surrounding violence against women...
Vulnerable Children and the Law
International Evidence for Improving Child Welfare, Child Protection and Children's Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Global support for improving child welfare and upholding the rights of children is strong, but in practice often fails to recognise the emerging gap between traditional child welfare practices and the evolving nature of child vulnerability.
This book takes an international perspective on child...
Creating Inclusion and Well-being for Marginalized Students
Whole-School Approaches to Supporting Children’s Grief, Loss, and Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
It is increasingly challenging for teachers to educate without a deeper understanding of the experience of their students. This is particularly the case in marginalised groups of young people who are subject to loss, grief, trauma and shame. Through a snapshot of the diverse student populous, this...
Best Practice in Professional Supervision
A Guide for the Helping Professions
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Best Practice in Professional Supervision is an authoritative guide to being an excellent supervisor, covering the role, functions and dispositions involved. The authors consider basic skills, the practicalities of forming and maintaining the supervision relationship, and the organisational context...
Divorce and the Special Needs Child
A Guide for Parents
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Going through a divorce is always tough, but when a child with special needs is involved it can be especially challenging. This book takes a clear and comprehensive look at every aspect of the legal divorce process, and addresses all of the legal issues that divorcing parents of children with special...
Understanding Nonverbal Learning Disabilities
A Common-Sense Guide for Parents and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
This easy-to-read guide offers a complete overview of Nonverbal Learning Disabilities (NLDs) and the wide variety of symptoms that different types of NLD present.
Maggie Mamen enables readers to select the most relevant strategies for coping with and managing their particular symptoms. She...
by Shirley Riley
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
Contemporary Art Therapy with Adolescents offers practical and imaginative solutions to the multifaceted challenges that clinicians face when treating young people. The author fuses the contemporary theories of clinical treatment with the creative processes of art therapy to arrive at a synthesis...
Clayworks in Art Therapy
Plying the Sacred Circle
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2002
Clay is universally recognized as a medium of creative expression, and it also has great potential for therapeutic application. These two properties of clay are celebrated together in a book that explores the history, theory and techniques of claywork in eliciting therapeutic outcomes. Vignettes and...
Peace Inside
A Prisoner's Guide to Meditation
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
This moving book provides an inside-view of life in prison, and people's remarkable ability to make sense of their lives there as they learn to meditate. Drawing on years of intimate correspondence between prisoners and charity workers of the Prison Phoenix Trust, it traces prisoners' struggles through...