Jessica Kingsley Publishers imprint: 1689 books
Promoting Public Mental Health and Well-being
Principles into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
What causes a person to flourish or languish? Or to be well or ill? How can the mental health and well-being of society as a whole, and individuals, be promoted and enhanced?
This book explores the social, economic, political, cultural and environmental factors that affect mental health and...
Working with Traumatic Memories to Heal Adults with Unresolved Childhood Trauma
Neuroscience, Attachment Theory and Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
What potential does psychotherapy have for mediating the impact of childhood developmental trauma on adult life?
Combining knowledge from trauma-focused work, understandings of the developmental brain and the neurodynamics of psychotherapy, the authors explain how good care and poor care in...
A Pony in the Bedroom
A Journey through Asperger's, Assault, and Healing with Horses
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Susan Dunne's life changed forever when a chance question from a doctor led her back to horses, an unfulfilled childhood passion. Detached and isolated due to undiagnosed autism, Susan had already survived rape, battled eating disorders and self-harm, and spent time homeless, when her world was turned...
From Like to Love for Young People with Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder)
Learning How to Express and Enjoy Affection with Family and Friends
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
If your child rarely shows you that he or she loves you, it can be profoundly distressing. This is the experience of many parents of children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and most fear that it reflects the truth. In fact the truth has generally more to do with the difficulty that young...
Welcome to Fostering
A Guide to Becoming and Being a Foster Carer
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
What should you expect when you're expecting to foster? This book is a guide to taking the first critical steps of your fostering journey, explaining what fostering is, how to become a foster carer and what it takes to thrive.
Combining invaluable advice from veteran foster carers, the expertise...
Healing for Adults Who Grew Up in Adoption or Foster Care
Positive Strategies for Overcoming Emotional Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
Positive and practical, this guide is designed to offer a route to recovery from grief and loss after adoption or long-term foster care.
Children growing up in adoptive families or foster care often have complicated feelings about the loss of their birth parents - feelings which become all...
Keeping Foster Children Safe Online
Positive Strategies to Prevent Cyberbullying, Inappropriate Contact, and Other Digital Dangers
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Foster children are more likely than other children to be involved in risky activities online due to backgrounds of neglect and abuse, an absence of supportive adults, lower self-esteem, and greater exposure to drugs and alcohol.
Covering all the dangers of online technology that your foster...
Helping Foster Children In School
A Guide for Foster Parents, Social Workers and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Helping Foster Children In School explores the challenges that foster children face in schools and offers positive and practical guidance tailored to help the parents, teachers and social workers supporting them.
Children in care often perform poorly at school both in terms of their behavior...
by Adrian Butchers, Sam Dobbs, Abi Gill
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
Use of the arts in palliative care settings is a powerful and effective way of addressing the practical, psychological, social and spiritual issues faced by service users in end-of-life care.
The Creative Arts in Palliative Care uncovers the possibilities for using the creative arts and provides...
Kit Kitten and the Topsy-Turvy Feelings
A Story About Parents Who Aren't Always Able to Care
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2015
Once upon a time there was a little kitten called Kit who lived with a grown-up cat called Kizz Cat. Kit Kitten couldn't understand why sometimes Kizz Cat seemed sad and far away and others times was busy and rushing about. Kit Kitten was sometimes cold and confused in this topsy-turvy world and needed...
We Get It
Voices of Grieving College Students and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2015
Silver Medal Winner in the Grief/Grieving category of the 2015 Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards
A unique collection of 33 narratives by bereaved students and young adults, this books aims to help young adults who are grieving and provide guidance for those who seek to support...
At Home in the Land of Oz
Autism, My Sister, and Me Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Anne's sister Becky was born in 1958, long before most people had even heard of autism. Diagnosed with "emotional disturbance," Becky was subjected for much of her childhood to well-meaning but futile efforts at "rehabilitation" or "cure," as well as prolonged spells...
The Seduction of Children
Empowering Parents and Teachers to Protect Children from Child Sexual Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2004
This highly accessible and informative book offers practical strategies for the protection of children that all parents, teachers, and anyone involved in the life of a child will find indispensable. Providing the reader with an understanding of typical/normative sexual development in children, Christiane...
Making Sense of Child and Family Assessment
How to Interpret Children's Needs
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
The application of assessment frameworks hinges on human qualities and skills which are naturally prone to bias and inconsistency. Making Sense of Child and Family Assessment aims to support workers in analysing and making sense of the information gathered, and increasing accuracy and empathy in assessing...