Jessica Kingsley Publishers: 1951 books
Social Narratives
A Story Intervention for Children with Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Social Narratives are a simple, evidence-based intervention to help children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and other developmental delays to understand appropriate social behaviours and overcome the anxiety associated with social situations. This practical guide explains how to create and use...
Building on Bion: Branches
Contemporary Developments and Applications of Bion's Contributions to Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
This book has contributions, largely related to group analysis, from an international selection of well-known group analysts, psychologists, psychiatrists and academics. There is a very clear overview and précis of Bions's thoughts by James Grotstein followed by ten chapters each developing an aspect...
The Social Unconscious
Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
In this text, Earl Hopper has made a major contribution to the understanding of the depth and breadth of individuals and how we might help them to know more of their patterns of relatedness with others, inter-personally, socially and culturally. Of particular note is the open honest manner of his...
by Robyn Munford, Kieran O\''Donoghue, Marie Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005
This wide-ranging collection of essays offers valuable insights into the cultural issues involved in the practical application of social work theories. Leading contributors explore the challenges faced by indigenous populations and ethnic minority groups, examining how they can gain control over their...
The Equality Act 2010 in Mental Health
A Guide to Implementation and Issues for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
The Equality Act 2010 in Mental Health provides a critical guide to the Act: what it means for mental health services and how it should be implemented.
It addresses each of the nine characteristics protected by the Act in turn, examining the research and practice issue associated with each...
Music Therapy Methods in Neurorehabilitation
A Clinician's Manual
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
The value of music therapy in neurological rehabilitation is increasingly recognised and this practical manual provides comprehensive guidance for clinicians on the application of music therapy methods in neurorehabilitation.
Felicity Baker and Jeanette Tamplin combine research findings with...
Reading and Expressive Writing with Traumatised Children, Young Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Unpack My Heart with Words
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Unpack my Heart with Words explores how literature can be used to help young victims cope with their experiences. The process of reading, discussing and rewriting carefully selected texts can have a significant therapeutic impact, as the young person identifies his or her own experience in the narrative....
Confused, Angry, Anxious?
Why working with older people in care really can be difficult, and what to do about it
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Working with older people in care can be challenging and frustrating, especially when they behave in ways that seem irrational, aggressive, or unreasonably repetitive, and nothing you can do seems to help. The authors of this useful and practical book explain how to understand the difficult and annoying...
by Sonali Shah
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2005
Disabled people can be seen pejoratively as a homogenous group that are typically "weak" and "needy" and thus unable to undertake the rigours of professional care work. Shah also notes that disabled people are often wrongly assumed to have a high level of absences from work and...
Mastering Communication in Social Work
From Understanding to Doing
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Communication skills are fundamental to effective social work practice.
Accessible and easy-to-read, Mastering Communication in Social Work is designed to help you develop these essential skills. It explores the basics of how communication works, the factors that influence how effectively you...
Re-thinking Children’s Work in Churches
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Drawing on current scholarship and research by authors with experience of a range of International contexts who are experts in their field, this accessible guide focuses on approaches that encourage spiritual, physical, mental and emotional development in children.
By outlining a range of lenses...
by Elizabeth MacKinlay, Richard Burns
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
What does it mean to grow old? What makes later life meaningful? What gives a frail and isolated or institutionalised older person their sense of wholeness and self?
This substantially updated new edition of Elizabeth MacKinlay's seminal text presents the latest theory and research to explore...
Children Taken Seriously
In Theory, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
In Children Taken Seriously, leading researchers and policy makers consider how children can be recognized as social actors rather than passive consumers or victims. Using children's own views and experiences as a starting point, they explore how children can be involved as partners in the decision-making...
The Multi-Sensory Reminiscence Activity Book
52 Weekly Group Session Plans for Working with Older Adults
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
With a key theme for every week of the year, this resource contains extended multi-sensory reminiscence group session plans for older adults.
Written by experienced occupational therapists, it provides detailed session plans for running successful and therapeutically-valuable activities within...