Jessica Kingsley Publishers imprint: 1689 books
Can't Eat, Won't Eat
Dietary Difficulties and Autistic Spectrum Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2002
Finding out that your child has Asperger's Syndrome or Autism can be devastating enough, but when you discover that he or she won't eat 99.9 per cent of all food and drink in the known universe, the fun really starts. This was the situation the author found herself in a decade ago when her son first...
Highly Sensitive People in an Insensitive World
How to Create a Happy Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
In today's fast-paced, increasingly public society, we are expected to be resilient, to have the energy to manage a packed work schedule, social calendar, and a large network of friends, both online and offline, day and night. If you find yourself struggling to live up to, or even enjoy, these non-stop...
by Biddy Youell
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
Understanding 8-9-Year-Olds describes how children grow and change as they move further away from reliance on home and family, out into the world of school and community.
Children of this age develop preferences as well as opinions based on their experience of new relationships and activities....
Life Story Therapy with Traumatized Children
A Model for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Life Story Therapy is an approach designed to enable children to explore, question and understand the past events of their lives. It aims to secure their future through strengthening attachment with their carers and providing the opportunity to develop a healthy sense of self and a feeling of wellbeing.
This...
Supporting the Mental Health of Children in Care
Evidence-Based Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Combining contemporary research with practice findings, this book shows how we can improve the mental health of children in care.
Expert contributors highlight the challenges that children face and propose innovative models of practice which have been proven to improve outcomes. The book describes...
Improving Access to Further and Higher Education for Young People in Public Care
European Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2014
Across Europe young people in public care are around five times less likely to attend tertiary education than those who have not been in care. This book provides a comprehensive account of why this shocking discrepancy exists and outlines ways to address the imbalance.
Drawing extensively on...
by Aloyse Raptopoulos, Philip Kemp, Tony Leiba
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
As the momentum for personalisation and recovery approaches grows, service users are increasingly participating as partners in all aspects of health and social care delivery, policy-making and professional training. This book provides an overview of service user involvement in mental health, its origins...
by Peter Felix Kellermann
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Time does not heal all wounds: decades after a disaster, entire communities may still experience the long-term effects of trauma.
Sociodrama and Collective Trauma examines the psychological and social damage of trauma to society as a whole. Kellermann argues that collective trauma has been...
Transformation through Journal Writing
The Art of Self-Reflection for the Helping Professions
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Transformation through Journal Writing is a grounded guide to self reflection through journaling for those in the helping professions. Journals are shown to be an effective method of self-care and self-development.
Full of inspiring and original ideas, this book provides everything you need...
Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Older Adults
Evidence for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Based on extensive clinical research, this book sheds new light onto how Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) can be used with older adults as an effective complementary intervention, identifying specific ways in which MBSR programmes can be adapted and fine-tuned to meet the needs of this group.
Presenting...
Autism, Anxiety and Me
A Diary in Even Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Surely my way is not always wrong, just because it's different from other people's ways? I mean everyone's way is weird to someone...
In her 24 years Emma has experienced a lot, and much of this has been coloured by her autism and social anxiety. Funny and self-aware, this collection of Emma's...
Can I tell you about Stuttering?
A guide for friends, family and professionals
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
Meet Harry – a young boy who stutters. Harry invites readers to learn about what it is like to stutter from his perspective and how it affects his daily life and makes him feel. He talks about techniques that can help reduce stuttering and describes how friends, family and others can help him to...
Trans Voices
Becoming Who You Are
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Bronze Winner for the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the category of Gay/Lesbian/Bi/Trans Non-Fiction
Foregrounding the voices of transgender and non-binary people, this honest and insightful book is a compilation of the voices of those who have decided to undergo transition - both...
Nurturing Adoptions
Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Adopted children who have suffered trauma and neglect have structural brain change, as well as specific developmental and emotional needs. They need particular care to build attachment and overcome trauma.
This book provides professionals with the knowledge and advice they need to help adoptive...