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Cyberbullying and E-safety: What Educators and Other Professionals Need to Know by Adrienne Katz
Booksplease Price: £21.98"I'd die without my Blackberry" - one young person's comment sums up a generation of young people who are increasingly living their daily lives through their phones and the internet... -
Creation Stories of the Middle East by Ewa Wasilewska
Booksplease Price: £49.06This account of Middle Eastern creation myths is a very detailed in its geographical and historical focus, and impressively wide-ranging in its scope... the painstaking research and critical insight... -
Understanding Your Baby by Sophie Boswell
Booksplease Price: £15.83Why do some mothers and babies take to breast feeding while others don't? And what are the emotions involved for mother and baby when the baby rejects a feed, or when breast feeding stops? What... -
Ageing, Independence and the Life Course by Sara Arber
Booksplease Price: £30.38`It is impossible in a short review to do justice to all those individual contributions, most of which are interesting in their own right ... Whilst this book is likely to be of particular interest... -
Love and Mayhem: One Big Family's Uplifting Story of Fostering and Adoption by John DeGarmo
Booksplease Price: £17.70Many people say being a parent is the toughest job there is. John DeGarmo, foster and adoptive parent, tells us just how tough it can be, having parented over 40 children. At times he and his wife,... -
Lifemaps of People with Learning Disabilities by Barry Gray
Booksplease Price: £28.51The use of lifemaps with people who have learning disabilities has proved particularly effective for a better understanding of their emotional perceptions and needs. In this book, Barry Gray and... -
Performing New Lives: Prison Theatre by Jonathan Shailor
Booksplease Price: £35.05Performing New Lives draws together some of the most original and innovative programs in contemporary prison theatre. Leading prison theatre directors and practitioners discuss the prison theatre... -
The QCS Pool Activity Level (PAL) Instrument for Occupational Profiling: A Practical Resource for Carers of People with Cognitive Impairment Fifth Edition by Jackie Pool
Booksplease Price: £26.99The QCS Pool Activity Level (PAL) Instrument is widely used as the framework for providing activity-based care for people with cognitive impairments, including dementia. The Instrument was... -
Haze by Kathy Hoopmann
Booksplease Price: £15.83Seb is a loner. Brilliant with numbers but hopeless with people, he prefers the company of computers and his only friend, Guzzle. Things change for the better when he makes friends with Kristie,... -
Therapeutic Journal Writing: An Introduction for Professionals by Kathleen Adams
Booksplease Price: £28.51Writing a journal is not just about keeping a record of daily events - journal writing provides a unique therapeutic opportunity for facilitating healing and growth. The author of this book guides... -
Small Steps Forward: Using Games and Activities to Help Your Pre-School Child with Special Needs by Sarah Newman
Booksplease Price: £17.70Praise for the First Edition: 'A warm feeling of positive reassurance and guidance runs throughout the book. [It] offers practical and emotional help, not only to a child's family, but equally to... -
Successful Project Management in Social Work and Social Care: Managing Resources, Assessing Risks and Measuring Outcomes by Gary Spolander
Booksplease Price: £31.33Managers in social work and social care contexts are required to manage a wide range of projects: long-term and short-term, on large and small scales, in partnership with other agencies, and covering... -
All About Drugs and Young People: Essential Information and Advice for Parents and Professionals by Julian Cohen
Booksplease Price: £21.98Packed with information, advice and learning activities, this book tells you what you need to know about drugs, young people's drug use, and how you can help them stay safe. It covers everything... -
Journeys into Palliative Care: Roots and Reflections by Louis Heyse-Moore
Booksplease Price: £26.65`The combined practice area of the contributors to this book include social work, psychotherapy, sociology, counselling psychology, creative writing, nursing, and medicine. Several of the authors... -
Conduct Disorder and Behavioural Parent Training: Research and Practice by Dermot O'Reilly
Booksplease Price: £30.38Progress made with children with conduct disorder in specialist schools often does not transfer to the home, but this book shows how behavioural parent training and applied behaviour analysis can... -
Portrait Therapy: Resolving Self-Identity Disruption in Clients with Life-Threatening and Chronic Illnesses by Susan Carr
Booksplease Price: £30.38Portrait therapy reverses the traditional roles in art therapy, utilising Edith Kramer's concept of the art therapist's 'third hand' to collaboratively design and paint their clients' portraits. It... -
Tell Me about When Moms and Dads Go to Jail by Judi Goozh
Booksplease Price: £15.83"This book will help you understand what is happening to your mom or dad who goes to jail..." Ideal for use with children aged 6-11, this is an invaluable resource for supporting the... -
Understanding Attachment and Attachment Disorders: Theory, Evidence and Practice by Vivien Prior
Booksplease Price: £33.19This book offers a thorough examination and discussion of the evidence on attachment, its influence on development, and attachment disorders. In Part One, the authors outline attachment theory, the... -
Islands of Genius: The Bountiful Mind of the Autistic, Acquired, and Sudden Savant by Darold A. Treffert
Booksplease Price: £24.99* Gold Medal Winner in the Psychology / Mental Health Category of the 2011 IPPY Awards * * Silver Medal Winner in the 2010 BOTYA Awards Psychology Category * Savant syndrome is a rare condition in... -
Learning to Live Well Together: Case Studies in Interfaith Diversity by Tom Wilson
Booksplease Price: £25.71In modern multi-faith societies, religious diversity not only affects religious organisations and communities, but indeed every aspect of life. From celebrating cultural events, to considering how... -
Process in the Arts Therapies by Ann Cattanach
Booksplease Price: £25.71Arts therapists are becoming increasingly interested in process as it is manifested in their work. The multiplicity of levels at which process operates is the theme of this new book. What happens... -
Learning to Practise Social Work: International Approaches by Steven Shardlow
Booksplease Price: £28.51This important and accessible book deals with current issues in practice teaching and learning in social work for practitioners, students and academics. Written from an international perspective,... -
Social Awareness Skills for Children by Marianna Csoti
Booksplease Price: £30.68Children, particularly those with special needs, can require considerable help in learning how to relate to other people and how to behave positively and appropriately in social situations. In this... -
Becoming a Reflexive Researcher - Using Our Selves in Research by Kim Etherington
Booksplease Price: £30.13'This is an optimistic book which advocates and describes a different research paradigm to be practiced and developed. Read it and research!' - Lapidus 'She has achieved her aim of the book being... -
Good Practice in Safeguarding Adults: Working Effectively in Adult Protection by Jacki Pritchard
Booksplease Price: £25.71Good Practice in Safeguarding Adults provides an up to date and topical overview of developments in policy, guidance, legislation and practice in the area of adult protection. The book aims to... -
Choosing Home: Deciding to Homeschool with Asperger's Syndrome by Stephen Shore
Booksplease Price: £18.62Martha Kennedy Hartnett is the mother of a child with Asperger's Syndrome who made the courageous choice to homeschool. Emerging from the author's personal experience, this book is a step by step... -
Leadership for Person-Centred Dementia Care by Buz Loveday
Booksplease Price: £25.71Person-centred dementia care relies on leadership that supports the ongoing process of learning about and valuing individuals, their feelings, strengths and needs, and using this knowledge to enhance... -
Assessing Behaviors Regarded as Problematic: For People with Developmental Disabilities by John Clements
Booksplease Price: £25.71People with developmental disabilities sometimes behave in ways that others, or they themselves, regard as problematic. This original book is about what practitioners can do to make sense of... -
How to Be a Peaceful School: Practical Ideas, Stories and Inspiration by Anna Lubelska
Booksplease Price: £23.85Peace is needed now more than ever in schools, by pupils and teachers alike. This inspiring guide provides primary, secondary and special schools with practical methods to improve pupil and teacher... -
A Self-Determined Future with Asperger Syndrome: Solution Focused Approaches by E. Veronica Bliss
Booksplease Price: £17.70A Self-Determined Future with Asperger Syndrome presents an empowering, practical approach to helping people with Asperger Syndrome (AS) to succeed at college, at work, at home and in life.The... -
Are You Okay?: A Practical Guide to Helping Young Victims of Crime by Pete Wallis
Booksplease Price: £16.76How do you spot the signs that a young person has been victimised? What do you do if you are approached by a young person who has been affected by crime or bullying? What is the impact of crime and... -
Perspectives in Caribbean Psychology by Frederick W. Hickling
Booksplease Price: £75.07Perspectives in Caribbean Psychology attempts to record the unique psychological character of those who live in the Caribbean and more broadly people of African-Caribbean heritage. It considers the... -
POTS and Other Acquired Dysautonomia in Children and Adolescents: Diagnosis, Interventions, and Multi-Disciplinary Management by Kelly McCracken Barnhill
Booksplease Price: £17.70This is an authoritative overview for anyone encountering Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) - a dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system resulting in diverse symptoms experienced in... -
Early Experience and the Life Path by Alan Clarke
Booksplease Price: £21.98This important book challenges the widely held assumption that early experience has a disproportionate effect on later development. Drawing from over forty years of rigorous empirical research and... -
Therapeutic Dimensions of Autobiography in Creative Writing by Celia Hunt
Booksplease Price: £28.51It was the author's own experience of fictional autobiography that led Celia Hunt serendipiditously to appreciate that such writing could be therapeutic. She noticed, for example, and this was... -
An Exact Mind: An Artist with Asperger Syndrome by Simon Baron-Cohen
Booksplease Price: £25.71Peter Myers' intricate and ornately patterned drawings are brought together for the first time in this volume, which is the fascinating result of the collaboration of an artist and two scientists... -
Asperger Syndrome in the Family: Redefining Normal by Liane Holliday Willey
Booksplease Price: £17.99Liane Holliday Willey and one of her daughters both have Asperger Syndrome. In Asperger Syndrome in the Family she looks, with honesty, wisdom and humor, at the implications this has for her family,... -
Equipment for Older or Disabled People and the Law by Michael Mandelstam 9781853023521
Booksplease Price: £40.02This comprehensive book explains the provision, both law and practice, of equipment and home adaptations to assist older or disabled people in daily living. Characterised by ill-defined statutory... -
Housing Options for Disabled People by Ruth Bull 9781853024542
Booksplease Price: £33.19The book contains a range of important messages in highlighting some of the complexities involved in the adaptation of housing for disabled people. The book is also progressive in calling for... -
Helping People with a Learning Disability Explore Relationships by Eve Jackson 9781853026881
Booksplease Price: £23.85The books are short, simply laid out, easy to use with practical advice and exercises. The case studies seem to be taken from real life scenarios. Clients, staff and families would find these books...