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Working with Parents of Young Peopl...

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Working with Parents of Young People

This book provides practical guidance for a wide range of professionals working with parents and families, answering common questions such as 'How can parents facilitate their child's transition to secondary school?' and 'How can families best communicate about alcohol?'. Drawing on the findings from years of applied research projects carried out by the Trust for the Study of Adolescence, each chapter focuses on a particular area of parenting young people – from...

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Children, Families and Violence

Brian Howe

Children, Families and Violence

This book examines the risk factors surrounding children at risk of experiencing and perpetrating violence, and looks at the positive role that children's rights can play in their protection. The authors propose that violence in childhood is not spontaneous: that children are raised to become violent in poorly functioning families and child-unfriendly environments. They may be exposed to toxic substances in utero, to maltreatment in infancy, to domestic violence or parental criminality as...

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Brian Howe

Nearing Death Awareness

Mary Anne Sanders

Nearing Death Awareness

Dying is a complex experience for the dying person and their family, friends, and carers, that involves all aspects of what it means to be human: physical, mental, and spiritual. The author describes different types of Nearing Death Awareness (NDA), including visions, dreams, and symbolic language, and offers practical guidance for family and carers of the dying about how to respond appropriately and supportively to NDA behavior. This sensitive and informative book will make fascinating reading...

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Mary Anne Sanders

Grandparenting a Child with Special...

Charlotte Thompson

Grandparenting a Child with Special Needs

When a new baby is born into a family, grandparents are excited about having a baby to enjoy and love. If the child is born with a disability, it can be difficult to know how to react and how best to help the child and the family as a whole. This book provides guidance on how to grandparent a child with special needs and give every grandchild the love and care they deserve and parents the added support they need. From coming to terms with a diagnosis, to helping with the transition from...

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Charlotte Thompson

Developing Advocacy for Children an...

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Developing Advocacy for Children and Young People

The role of an advocate for children is one that I perform myself which is why I have found much of the research presented in this book so interesting… We are all on the same side battling to improve life for children who have, through no fault of their own, been handed a very bad set of cards.' – From the Foreword by Cherie Booth QC Advocacy for vulnerable people is increasingly becoming a part of health and social care practice, and over the past decade policy developments have...

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Touch and Go Joe

Joe Wells

Touch and Go Joe

Part of the Reading Well scheme. 35 books selected by young people and health professionals to provide young people with high-quality support, information and advice about common mental health issues and related conditions. As many as 2 in every 100 people suffer from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and 16-year-old Joe Wells is one of them. In Touch and Go Joe, he tells the story of his battle with OCD from its insidious beginnings at age 9 and increasingly intrusive symptoms, to diagnosis...

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Joe Wells

Activities for Adults with Learning...

Ann Taylor

Activities for Adults with Learning Disabilities

This valuable resource for people working with adults with learning disabilities provides over 60 sessions of fun and engaging activities that aim to entertain and stimulate the minds of people with learning disabilities. The sessions are divided into different types of activity including cookery, arts and crafts, drama and dance, and outside events. A comprehensive collection of varied and enjoyable activities, this practical book also contains useful tips to ensure that sessions run smoothly....

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Ann Taylor

Self-Esteem Games for Children

Deborah Plummer

Self-Esteem Games for Children

In this practical handbook, self-esteem expert Deborah Plummer offers a wealth of familiar and easy-to-learn games carefully chosen to build and maintain self-esteem in children aged 5-11. The selection of games reflects the seven key elements of healthy self-esteem – self-knowledge, self and others, self-acceptance, self-reliance, self-expression, self-confidence and self-awareness – and includes opportunities for thinking and discussion. The book combines physically active and passive games,...

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Can I tell you about ADHD?

Susan Yarney

Can I tell you about ADHD?

Meet Ben – a young boy with ADHD. Ben invites readers to learn about ADHD from his perspective. He helps children understand what it means to have ADHD and describes what it is and how it feels. Ben explains how he was diagnosed and what he has learnt about ways to relieve his ADHD symptoms, and how friends and adults can help at home and school. This illustrated book is full of useful information and will be an ideal introduction for young people, aged 7 upwards, as well as parents, friends,...

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Susan Yarney

Fostering a Child's Recovery

Mike Thomas

Fostering a Child's Recovery

The overwhelming majority of children and young people in care today are fostered, but for some this only increases their problems through untreated trauma, ill-judged placements, poorly supported foster carersand multiple moves. This practical and evidence-based book outlines the principles of family placement on the basis of planning and evidence, and explores the qualities, skills and insights that create positive placement outcomes. Fostering a Child's Recovery shows how the key to...

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Mike Thomas

Understanding Looked After Children

Jeune Guishard-Pine

Understanding Looked After Children

Understanding Looked After Children is an accessible guide to understanding the mental health needs of children in foster care and the role of foster carers and support networks in helping these children. The authors provide foster carers with an insight into the psychological issues experienced by children in the care system, and the impact of these issues on the foster family. Chapters cover cultural, social and legal structures associated with foster care and both the relevant child...

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Jeune Guishard-Pine

Step by Step Help for Children with...

David Daley

Step by Step Help for Children with ADHD

Raising a child with ADHD can be distressing and exhausting for the whole family. But given the appropriate knowledge, and the right tools, parents can intervene to manage their child's behaviour, leading to improved relationships at home and, it is hoped, a more successful time at school. This simple, flexible six-step programme is full of tried-and-tested ideas for parents and professionals supporting families of young children with ADHD. By practicing the techniques and strategies,...

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David Daley

Living with Dyspraxia

Mary Colley

Living with Dyspraxia

This book provides a diverse range of basic information and practical advice for adults with dyspraxia. Colley is able to describe in detail the impact that coordination and motor learning difficulties can have on many everyday activities, including cooking, shopping, sewing, gardening and swallowing medicines. This book provides a very readable, comprehensive and useful resource for adults with dyspraxia and their carers. It might also be useful for clinicians who are new to the field and have...

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Mary Colley

Guiding Your Teenager with Special...

Mary Korpi

Guiding Your Teenager with Special Needs through the Transition from School to Adult Life

When teenagers with special needs transition from school to adult life, both they and their families are faced with many new decisions and challenges. This book provides advice and information to help families prepare for that transition, and make it happen as smoothly and seamlessly as possible. Mary Korpi recognizes the impact of this changeover period and emphasises the need for young adults to be included in all decisions and discussions about their future, thereby developing self-advocacy...

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Mary Korpi

Brotherly Feelings

Sam Frender

Brotherly Feelings

It isn't easy being eight years old and having an older brother whom other children often misunderstand. They don't realize that when he doesn't laugh at their jokes it's because he doesn't understand them. They don't know that when he doesn't speak to them or look at them it's because he doesn't know what to say or how to make eye contact. They don't realize that he behaves this way because he has something called Asperger's Syndrome. Sam...

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Caged in Chaos

Victoria Biggs

Caged in Chaos

Written by a teenager with dyspraxia, this is a humorous and inspiring practical guide for young adults with dyspraxia and those around them trying to get to grips with the physical, social and psychological chaos caused by developmental co-ordination disorders (DCDs). In her own conversational style, Victoria Biggs explains the primary effects of dyspraxia – disorganization, clumsiness and poor short-term memory – as well as other difficulties that dyspraxic teenagers encounter, such as...

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Learning About Friendship

Kay Al-Ghani

Learning About Friendship

Making friends can be a challenge for all children, but those with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) can struggle more than most. This collection of ten fully-illustrated stories explores friendship issues encountered by children with ASD aged four to eight and looks at how they can be overcome successfully. Key problem areas are addressed, including sharing, taking turns, being a tattletale, obsessions, winning and losing, jealousy, personal space, tact and diplomacy, and defining friendship....

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Kay Al-Ghani

A Reluctant Icon

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A Reluctant Icon

Artfully curated by James R. Hansen, A Reluctant Icon: Letters to Neil Armstrong is a companion volume to Dear Neil Armstrong: Letters to the First Man from All Mankind, collecting hundreds more letters Armstrong received after first stepping on the moon until his death in 2012. Providing context and commentary, Hansen has assembled the letters by the following themes: religion and belief; anger, disappointment, and disillusionment; quacks, conspiracy theorists, and ufologists; fellow astronauts...

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Reimagining Reference in the 21st C...

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Reimagining Reference in the 21st Century

Reference service, the idea that librarians provide direct assistance to users, has been a central function of libraries for over a century. Today's libraries are even more complex and intimidating to new users than libraries of the past, and the technical and social contexts in which users experience their library's resources add to this complexity. The availability of a friendly librarian who helps users find materials, search for information on a topic, interpret citations, identify...

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Minnesota Book of Days

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Minnesota Book of Days

The Minnesota Book of Days is a entertaining and educational day-by-day account of Minnesota history, chronicling important events, famous firsts, notable individuals, and interesting incidents.<br /><br />Tony Greiner's thorough research and keen sense of the offbeat combine to produce a book that is both serious history and unexpected fun, a perfect gift and a handy compendium. Did you know that the mercury sank below freezing on the Fourth of July in 1859? Or that on...

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If We can do it, You can do it!

Harry Schoenfeld

If We can do it, You can do it!

A New York Life agent for 69 years, Harry Schoenfeld has been helping clients create financial security for their families and businesses. He is a past president of the Santa Clara Estate Planning Council and the San Jose Chapter of the American Society of Financial Services Professionals. He has also served as an instructor for the Life Underwriters Training Council for courses in Advanced Sales and Financial Planning Skills, and authored many articles and spoken before numerous industry...

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Harry Schoenfeld

The Job Seekers Survival Guide

Terry Cobb

The Job Seekers Survival Guide

The Job Seekers Survival Guide is an insiders view of the frustrating process of being in the market for a job and how to effectively deal with it. The author, Terry Cobb, spent thirty years in the world of recruiting and human resources. The total of these years combined working within the military, the federal government, the mortgage industry, headhunting IT (Information Technology) professionals, the banking world, inside and outside sales and the housing market. He's recruited for...

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Terry Cobb

The Bibliography of Australasian Ju...

Serge Liberman

The Bibliography of Australasian Judaica 1788-2008

This bibliography includes all traceable self-contained books, monographs, pamphlets and chapters from books which in some way pertain to Jews in Australia and New Zealand between 1788 and 2008<br /> <br />Born in Russia in 1942, Serge Liberman came to Australia in 1951, where he now works as a medical practitioner. As author of several short-story collections including On Firmer Shores, A Universe of Clowns, The Life That I Have Led, and The Battered and the Redeemed, he has three...

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Serge Liberman

Promoting the Emotional Well Being...

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Promoting the Emotional Well Being of Children and Adolescents and Preventing Their Mental Ill Health

This comprehensive guide provides overviews of the key psychological processes affecting mental health, such as development, attachment, emotion regulation and attention, and draws out the implications for preventive measures and promotion of emotional well-being. The authors, from a range of professional disciplines, emphasise the importance of early intervention and prevention, exploring in particular how initiatives in parenting and education can promote children's emotional well-being....

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