Jessica Kingsley Publishers: 1951 books
Can't You Hear Them?
The Science and Significance of Hearing Voices
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The experience of 'hearing voices', once associated with lofty prophetic communications, has fallen low. Today, the experience is typically portrayed as an unambiguous harbinger of madness caused by a broken brain, an unbalanced mind, biology gone wild. Yet an alternative account, forged predominantly...
Healing Child Trauma Through Restorative Parenting
A Model for Supporting Children and Young People
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
How can we help heal children who have been abused or neglected?
Healing Child Trauma Through Restorative Parenting details how children can be helped to recover with the use of Restorative Parenting, an innovative model informed by psychological and neurological understanding of trauma and...
A Community-Based Approach to the Reduction of Sexual Reoffending
Circles of Support and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
A Circle of Support and Accountability is a group of trained volunteers who meet on a regular basis with a high risk sex offender living in their community. This innovative strategy, which helps the offender both to maintain accountability and reintegrate into the community, is proven to be effective...
Mindful Living with Asperger's Syndrome
Everyday Mindfulness Practices to Help You Tune in to the Present Moment
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
Based on his own life experiences, travels and meditations, Chris Mitchell reflects on how mindfulness practice can help people with Asperger's Syndrome (AS) with daily challenges including negative thought patterns, emotional and sensory issues, and navigating the social world.
This practical...
Asperger Syndrome in the Family
Redefining Normal
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2001
Liane Holliday Willey and one of her daughters both have Asperger Syndrome. In Asperger Syndrome in the Family she looks, with honesty, wisdom and humor, at the implications this has for her family, both the Aspie and the non-Aspie members. Through personal vignettes, frank discussions and practical...
When Young People with Intellectual Disabilities and Autism Hit Puberty
A Parents’ Q&A Guide to Health, Sexuality and Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Puberty, personal hygiene and sex can be difficult topics to broach with your child, especially when they have an intellectual disability or autism. The authors of this guide provide honest answers to challenging questions and provide solutions to the dilemmas that many parents face on a daily basis....
Everyday Heaven
Journeys Beyond the Stereotypes of Autism
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2004
Everyday Heaven is the much-awaited fourth installment in Donna Williams' series of best-selling autobiographies about her life with autism. A humorous, riveting, roller-coaster of a book, Everyday Heaven covers the monumental nine years from the time Ian left their accidental, 'autistic marriage',...
Tic Disorders
A Guide for Parents and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
This is the essential one-stop guide for parents of children and young people with tic disorders and the professionals who work with them.
Drawing on current research and their own clinical experience, the authors provide up-to-date information on tic disorders and review the psychological,...
Person-Centred Teams
A Practical Guide to Delivering Personalisation Through Effective Team-work
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Person-Centred Teams provides much-needed guidance on person-centred working following the roll out of personalisation and personal budgets across health and social care.
In order to deliver personalisation you need to work with staff in person-centred ways. Straightforward and easy-to-read,...
by Charlotte L. Clarke, Heather Wilkinson, John Keady
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Risk is central to professional practice, assessment and decision-making in dementia care. Yet theories of risk are often complex and difficult to translate into everyday practice.
This book outlines some of the key issues in risk perception, assessment and management in dementia care in a...
Being White in the Helping Professions
Developing Effective Intercultural Awareness
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
In this reflective yet practical book, the author challenges white helping professionals to recognize their own cultural identity and the impact it has when practising in a multicultural environment.
Judy Ryde reveals how white people have implicit and explicit advantages and privileges that...
Poetry and Story Therapy
The Healing Power of Creative Expression
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Poetry and short stories can act as powerful springboards to growth, self-enhancement and healing. With the guidance of a skilled facilitator, participants can engage with their own creative expression, and with that of others, and in doing so find opportunities to voice their truth, affirm their...
Safeguarding Black Children
Good Practice in Child Protection
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Providing an exploration of the key issues, this book offers practical advice on how to improve the safeguarding and welfare of black children and young people in need.
With contributions from academics, researchers and practitioners, it promotes an understanding of the particular cultural...
Helping Adults with Asperger's Syndrome Get & Stay Hired
Career Coaching Strategies for Professionals and Parents of Adults on the Autism Spectrum
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Employment expert Barbara Bissonnette provides strategies that professionals and parents need to guide individuals with Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) to manageable jobs, and keep them employed.
Career counselors and coaches, vocational rehabilitation specialists, other professionals,...