Jessica Kingsley Publishers imprint: 1689 books
Trauma, Tragedy, Therapy
The Arts and Human Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Stephen K. Levine's new book explores the nature of traumatic experience and the therapeutic role of the arts and arts therapies in responding to it. It suggests that by re-imagining painful and tragic experiences through art-making, we may release their fixity and negative hold on our lives and resist...
by Jan Lees, Nisha Dogra, Paul Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
What social change has been achieved over the past 30 years?
What have been the main barriers to progress?
What great achievements can we identify and celebrate today?
Marking Jessica Kingsley Publishers' 30th year of publishing books on social and behavioural issues, this book gathers together...
by Jennifer Elder
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Autistic Planet is a magical world where all trains run exactly to time, where people working in offices have rocking chairs, and where all kids dream of winning the chess World Cup. Join us on a journey to this alternative reality, where being different is ordinary, and being "typical"...
Theory and Practice of Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy
Beyond the Talking Cure
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
This comprehensive introduction to Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy lays out the background and fundamentals of the approach covering theory and practice.
Gendlin, after many articles on Focusing-oriented psychotherapy, finally published the text Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy in 1996, making...
Understanding Street Drugs
A Handbook of Substance Misuse for Parents, Teachers and Other Professionals Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2005
This fully updated edition of the essential reference Understanding Drugs provides a complete overview of the key facts and core issues surrounding substance misuse. All commonly-used street drugs are covered, with quick reference guides, helpful diagrams and clear information on each drug's effects,...
Creating Person-Centred Organisations
Strategies and Tools for Managing Change in Health, Social Care and the Voluntary Sector
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Person-centred thinking and planning are approaches that enable people using social care and health services to plan their future, and use a personal budget to commission personalised services.
Creating Person-Centred Organisations is a guide for organisations who want to deliver personalised...
Emerging Practice in Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy
Innovative Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Emerging Practice in Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy brings together some of the world's most influential contemporary psychotherapists in the field to look at the future of Focusing-oriented approaches.
Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy - a form of therapy that involves listening to the innate...
Conduct Disorder and Offending Behaviour in Young People
Findings from Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
`This is the latest in a series of accessible, evidence-based resources from Jessica Kingsley Publishers for those seeking to understand and promote young people's mental health. Trawling through the evidence, the authors start by looking at the nature and prevalence of conduct disorders including...
Art Therapy Exercises
Inspirational and Practical Ideas to Stimulate the Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
This accessible book comprises a collection of 80 tried-and-tested exercises, with guidelines for applying them and advice for devising new ones. Liesl Silverstone offers a variety of exercises for a diverse and multicultural client base, such as guided fantasies, one-to-one and group work focusing...
Dementia and Social Inclusion
Marginalised groups and marginalised areas of dementia research, care and practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2004
There has been a considerable and welcome growth of publications about dementia care and Jessica Kingsley Publishers has certainly played a very useful part in this growth... we need more not less of this quality of work and writing if society is to include those with dementia as full citizens.'
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Personality Disorder
The Definitive Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Personality Disorder offers a comprehensive and accessible collection of papers that will be practically useful to practitioners working in secure and non-secure settings with patients who have personality disorders.
This book brings together fourteen classic papers, which address the impact...
Breath in Action
The Art of Breath in Vocal and Holistic Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Breath in Action looks at the significance of breath to human life - not just the simple fact that if we stop breathing, we die, but also the more subtle ways in which our breath interacts with our voice and our being. Written by experts in vocal and holistic practice, the book is divided into four sections:...
by Margery Collin, Jacki Thomas, Martin Hill
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Hospice chaplains have traditionally played a unique part in palliative care, providing human compassion and support to help ease life's final chapter. This book thoughtfully tackles the question at the heart of modern hospice chaplaincy: do chaplains have a distinctive role in an increasingly secular...
Intimate Partner Sexual Violence
A Multidisciplinary Guide to Improving Services and Support for Survivors of Rape and Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Intimate Partner Sexual Violence (IPSV) is the most common type of sexual violence and a common component of domestic violence, yet most cases go unreported and service responses are often inadequate. This book brings together advice for all those professionals working with individuals who have experienced...