The Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up Approach
This is the authoritative presentation of Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up (ABC), the widely disseminated, evidence-based home-visiting intervention for parents of infants who have experienced adversity, such as homelessness, neglect, or institutional care. Vivid case examples--including one that runs throughout the book--illustrate the ......
When professionals listen to and support new parents in the perinatal period, families enjoy long-lasting benefits - from stronger attachment to increased parent responsiveness and confidence. This guidebook shows practitioners how to conduct effective, collaborative consultation sessions that help parents and infants in the critical first few ......
For the busy frontline practitioner with little time to plan ahead, this hands-on guide presents imaginative and unique methods to engage families and caregivers throughout the process of assessing vulnerable children.
Setting the context for each area of assessment, including strengths and resilience, ......
Ideas and Activities for Working Therapeutically with Worried Children and Their Families
This book sets out therapeutic activities to help children aged 4-12 years and their families to better understand and manage anxiety. It explains how to work with anxious children, providing a framework for assessment and therapy that draws on CBT, ACT and narrative therapy approaches.
A Therapist's Guide to Working with Preschool and Primary Children
To be able to effectively offer therapy to children, complex therapeutic concepts need to be presented in an appropriate and engaging manner. This practical guide provides clinicians with a way in which to do so, with numerous games and imaginative activities to help children aged 4-12 to express and understand their ......
Offers early interventionists information on the proper development of young children as well as risk factors and environmental circumstances that can hinder a child's development. This book covers prenatal and perinatal periods; and early detection and identification of developmental delays or disorders, and diseases.
Supporting Infants and Toddlers in Natural Environments
A must for future early interventionists, this introductory text prepares professionals to support infants and toddlers with special needs and their families. Focusing on the specific needs and challenges of children from birth to three, the book gathers more than a dozen expert contributors with proven expertise in helping children who have or ......
Gilly the Giraffe Learns to Love Herself helps children aged 5-10 to explore feelings relating to worry and self-doubt, and to enrich their confidence and self-esteem.
A Therapeutic Story With Creative Activities for Children Aged 5-10
Even though Gilly the Giraffe has many wonderful things in her life, she sometimes lacks confidence. Why does she have to stand out so much with her long neck, her long black tongue and her mosaic patches? Why do some of the other animals point and laugh at her? Can it be possible to be different and to be cool?
