Jessica Kingsley Publishers: 1951 books
Mindful Therapeutic Care for Children
A Guide to Reflective Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
Mindful Therapeutic Care for Children is an accessible guide to using mindfulness and reflection to improve the quality of care for vulnerable children.
Drawing on ideas from attachment theory and neuroscience, Mindful Therapeutic Care for Children explains terms like mindfulness and reflective...
A Manual of Dynamic Play Therapy
Helping Things Fall Apart, the Paradox of Play
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Children will experience natural growth and change throughout their lives. Play, by its very nature, always results in things falling apart, often literally, and children generally find satisfaction in this process of collapse and renewal.
This book harnesses the power of the reorganizing process...
Written on the Body
Letters from Trans and Non-Binary Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Lambda Literary Award Finalist - LGBTQ Anthology
Written by and for trans and non-binary survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, Written on the Body offers support, guidance and hope for those who struggle to find safety at home, in the body, and other unwelcoming places.
This...
William Wobbly and the Mysterious Holey Jumper
A story about fear and coping
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
William Wobbly is having lots of wobbly feelings one morning but his mum is so busy that she doesn't notice. William Wobbly's worries worsen when he notices small changes at school. "Where's my real teacher?!" he wonders. He hides under his desk and he chews holes into his jumper, but even...
Trauma Healing at the Clay Field
A Sensorimotor Art Therapy Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Using clay in therapy taps into the most fundamental of human experiences - touch. This book is a comprehensive step-by-step training manual that covers all aspects of 'Work at the Clay Field', a sensorimotor-based art therapy technique.
The book discusses the setting and processes of the approach,...
Understanding How Asperger Children and Adolescents Think and Learn
Creating Manageable Environments for AS Students
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2005
Understanding How Asperger Children and Adolescents Think and Learn helps educators appreciate the learning process and improve its effectiveness for students with Asperger Syndrome.
The author provides a compelling inside view of how AS pupils perceive and understand what goes on in the classroom,...
A Practical Introduction to Restorative Practice in Schools
Theory, Skills and Guidance
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Proven to reduce bad behaviour and exclusions, and encourage happier, safer school environments, restorative justice is an effective approach to conflict resolution.
Suitable for education settings from preschool to college, this guide explains what restorative justice is, how it can be used...
by Kwame McKenzie, Trudy Harpham
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
`The effects of social context and social structure on health are well documented. The concept of social capital provides a slightly different take on the issue, as it attempts to discover the features of populations in different areas that are crucial in determining the extent and the quality of...
Standing On His Own Two Feet
A Diary of Dying
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2005
Alexander had just begun his studies at university when he was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer. In this honest account, Alex's mother traces the impact of the diagnosis on the whole family and outlines the issues that arose during diagnosis, treatment and terminal stages of her son's illness.
Standing...
The Individual Service Funds Handbook
Implementing Personal Budgets in Provider Organisations
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
The Individual Service Funds Handbook is the definitive guide to one of the most innovative forms of personal budget in health and social care.
It gives a clear explanation of what Individual Service Funds (ISFs) are, how to use them effectively and includes all the information you need in...
Autistics' Guide to Dating
A Book by Autistics, for Autistics and Those Who Love Them or Who Are in Love with Them
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
For people on the autism spectrum dating is so often an elusive art form, requiring the very skills--in communication, and in social perception--that don't come naturally to them. This book presents strategies for overcoming social skills deficits and sensory issues, to make for relationship success.
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Understanding the Nature of Autism and Asperger's Disorder
Forty Years of Clinical Practice and Pioneering Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2005
Edward R. Ritvo md is an internationally recognized medical expert, researcher and pioneer in the field of autism and Asperger's disorder and co-author of the official diagnostic criteria in the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). Much of what is known about these disorders...
Living in Two Worlds
On Being a Social Chameleon with Asperger’s
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Dylan Emmons has always lived his life in two worlds. Diagnosed with Asperger's at the age of six, his school days were spent struggling to overcome the sensory and social hurdles that made fitting in with his classmates in the 'real world' so hard. An aspiring social chameleon, he attempted to blend...
Children and Spirituality
Searching for Meaning and Connectedness
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Brendan Hyde identifies four characteristics of children's spirituality: the felt sense, integrating awareness, weaving the threads of meaning, and spiritual questing. These characteristics can be observed in children if those who work with them know what to look for and are alert to the time, place...