Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath
Examines key 'lessons learned' from Hurricane Katrina and offers a blueprint for better meeting the needs of children, families, and communities post-disaster. This title provides community-wide strategies for promoting healthy adaptation in children and families following disasters.
Help young children with autism spectrum disorders build friendships with typically developing peers with this practical and engaging DVD. Professionals and parents will get easy-to-follow, step-by-step strategies for facilitating positive peer play among
Lucy Whitman is a writer, editor and trainer, and a former teacher in further education. She cared for her mother who had dementia, which inspired her first anthology, Telling Tales About Dementia: Experiences of Caring, also published by JKP. Lucy has worked extensively with family carers, and writes regularly for the Journal of Dementia Care. ......
When an individual or couple is considering a difficult choice such as IVF treatment or third party assisted conception, the moral and ethical basis for their decisions may often be informed by their particular faith traditions.Faith and Fertility is a comprehensive collection of essays by academics and faith leaders from around the world. The ......
Filled with practical pointers and examples, this guide helps professionals conduct productive interviews while building strong working relationships with culturally and linguistically diverse clients.
Bonnie Thomas LCSW is a school-based clinician, providing individual and family therapy to children aged 3GÇô12. She has also worked in the Juvenile Corrections System and coordinated a mentoring programme for young girls living in public housing.
Assisted living is the fastest-growing alternative to skilled nursing care for frail older persons in the United States. The expectations, settings, and missions of these residences are varied, making it difficult for prospective residents and their families to anticipate what it would be like to live in them. This book is a unique portal into the ......
Safeguarding children from harm has, until recently, been driven primarily by social work practitioners. With current shifts in child care and protection practice and policy, combined with an overwhelming message of 'working together', primary health care professionals have an increasingly central part to play. It has been declared that cases of ......
