Jessica Kingsley Publishers: 1951 books
Observing Children with Attachment Difficulties in Preschool Settings
A Tool for Identifying and Supporting Emotional and Social Difficulties
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
For preschool children with emotional difficulties arising from difficulties in attachment, standard observations used in early years settings are not always helpful in identifying their problems and providing guidance on how they can be helped.
Combining an accessible introduction to attachment...
Nurturing Attachments Training Resource
Running Parenting Groups for Adoptive Parents and Foster or Kinship Carers - With Downloadable Materials
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
Nurturing Attachments Training Resource is a complete group-work programme containing everything you need to run training and support sessions for adoptive parents and foster or kinship carers. Based on attachment theory and developed by expert author and trainer Kim Golding, this rich resource provides...
Assessing Adoptive Parents, Foster Carers and Kinship Carers, Second Edition
Improving Analysis and Understanding of Parenting Capacity
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Assessing prospective adoptive parents, foster carers, kinship carers and special guardians is an extremely complex task, and one that happens within a pressurized time frame.
Currently, assessments draw substantially on interviews, which can generate a lot of information but little analysis...
Crafting Secular Ritual
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Answering the call for new rituals in our secular age, this book recognises the essential importance of rituals to the psychological, physical and spiritual health of individuals, families, organisations, and society as a whole. The book examines and explains the history, function and place of emerging...
What Counsellors and Spiritual Directors Can Learn from Each Other
Ethical Practice, Training and Supervision
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
This new edited collection explores the intersection of spiritual direction and counselling/psychotherapy, and the relationship between the two. Citing the influencing effect prayer and counselling have had on each other, the contributors offer insight into the similarities and differences of spiritual...
The Forgiveness Project
Stories for a Vengeful Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Silver Medal Winner in the Essays category of the 2015 Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards
What is forgiveness?
Are some acts unforgivable?
Can forgiveness take the place of revenge?
Powerful real-life stories from survivors and perpetrators of crime and violence reveal...
The Challenge of Practical Theology
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007
This engaging collection of essays showcases the broad sweep of his scholarly and personal interests and experiences, and is a key instalment in his prolific literary output which will be of interest well beyond the confines of academic theology.
The challenging and sometimes controversial...
Attachment and Emotional Development in the Classroom
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
As of 2016 the Department for Education (DfE) want to ensure all trainee teachers have an understanding of emotional development and attachment, and so this book presents the key concepts that are essential for training in this area to ensure all teachers are up to date.
Attachment issues and...
by Linnet McMahon, Peter Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2003
Tackling the difficult issues facing those who work with traumatized and sometimes dangerous young people and their families, this new volume shows how professionals can bring about positive change and growth through the creation of "holding" and healing therapeutic environments. This collection...
by Ian Stuart-Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
`This would be an excellent companion to an A-level or first year degree course or indeed anyone with an interest in psychology. The book aims to `tell people what psychology is about' and it does this in an extremely well structured and accessible fashion. It gives a good introduction to severaldifferent...
Spiritual Dimensions of Pastoral Care
Practical Theology in a Multidisciplinary Context
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
Written by significant researchers and practitioners within the field, this unique collection of key texts introduces the reader to practical theology. It critically explores the way in which the spiritual dimension of pastoral care has entered into constructive dialogue with other disciplines and...
by Malcolm Goldsmith, Rosalie Hudson, Elizabeth MacKinlay
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
This publication brings together plenary addresses and other papers originally present at the Second International Conference on Ageing, Spirituality and Well-Being. The contributions are compassionate, warm and humane. The book is often insightful, frequently surprising, and can, without hesitation,...
Arts Therapists, Refugees and Migrants
Reaching Across Borders
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
The legal and humanitarian response to the world's growing population of refugees and migrants has created more awareness of not only the physical but also the psychological needs of displaced peoples. Refugees are often the forgotten victims of war violence and political upheaval, subjected to the...
Spirituality and Mental Health Care
Rediscovering a 'Forgotten' Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
A person's sense of spirituality informs his or her awareness of self and of the society around them, and is intrinsic to their mental well-being. In this balanced and thoughtful book John Swinton explores the connections between mental health or illness and spirituality and draws on these to provide...