to Working with Traumatized Children and Adolescents in Foster, Kinship and Adoptive Care
This innovative book brings together a wide range of therapeutic approaches, techniques and models to outline recent developments in the practice of supporting children in out-of home care. It sheds light on the significance of schools, sports and peer relationships in the lives of traumatized children. It also draws particular attention to ......
An Educator's Guide to Using Dyadic Developmental Practice
Experienced clinicians show how educators can easily use a proven psychological model to help pupils who have experienced relational trauma. Contains everything required to embed it into teaching practice, including building connections with students and teachers, exploration of the theory, and practical applications.
Transforming Life Chances for Vulnerable Children and Teens
A difficult home life. A missed diagnosis. A disrupted education. Falling in with a bad crowd. Exploitation. Every year thousands of children fall through the gaps in our society and too often become victims of a destructive cycle. Former Commissioner for Children in England Anne Longfield CBE has met many children and families living through ......
Life Story Therapy is an approach designed to enable children to explore, question and understand the past events of their lives. It aims to secure their future through strengthening attachment with their carers and providing the opportunity to develop a healthy sense of self and a feeling of wellbeing.
Patrick Tomlinson is a social care consultant. He has many years' experience as a practitioner, manager and director of therapeutic child care services, and is author of several books on therapeutic child care.
The Simple Guide to Emotional Neglect provides you with a concise explanation of the impact of emotional neglect in childhood. Easy to read and digest, it is a trusted introduction for any parent, carer or child welfare professional supporting children or adults affected by emotional neglect.
This guide is essential for any adult caring for or working with dissociative children affected by early trauma. Full of helpful information and advice, it differentiates trauma from complex trauma and provides information on the different types of dissociation, as well as practical advice and tips on aiding recovery.
A Guide to Therapeutic Child Care provides an easy to read explanation of the secrets that lie behind good quality therapeutic child care.
It describes relevant theories, the invisible psychological challenges that children will often struggle with and how to develop a nurturing relationship and build trust. Combining ......
Judith Milner and Jackie Bateman are both solution focused practitioners, trainers, consultants and writers. Jackie previously worked as a social worker in child protection and then youth offending before joining Barnardo's in 2002. She is currently a Children's Service Manager for Barnardo's The Junction, a service which works with children and ......
How can you support both colleagues and families as they enhance their knowledge, develop new skills, and promote health development of young children? Coaching is the key - and the new edition of this bestselling guide is packed with even more practical tools to help early childhood professionals conduct skillful coaching.
Tool for Identifying and Supporting Emotional and Social Difficulties
For preschool children with emotional difficulties arising from difficulties in attachment, standard observations used in early years settings are not always helpful in identifying their problems and providing guidance on how they can be helped.Combining an accessible introduction to attachment and child development with a child observation tool ......
Now in a revised and updated fourth edition, this trusted text and professional resource provides a developmental framework for clinical practice. The authors examine how children's trajectories are shaped by transactions among family relationships, brain development, and the social environment. Risk and resilience factors in each of these domains ......
A new edition of the textbook of choice for courses on disability and the essential resource for researchers and policy makers. Children with Disabilities is a definitive compendium of field knowledge, bringing together contributions from established experts and emerging voices.
Talking To My Mum is an activity pack for five- to eight-year-olds whose families have experienced domestic abuse to help and encourage them to open up to their mothers about their distressing experiences.Based on the authors work with families who have experienced domestic abuse, the book is full of illustrated worksheets......
Enhance the social-emotional development of infants and young children with this treasure trove of learning activities, handouts, and more. Specially developed to complement ASQ:SE-2, this essential resource makes it a snap to share practical social-emotional strategies with parents of children from birth to age 6.
Helping traumatised children develop a narrative about their life and the lives of people closest to them, is key to their understanding and acceptance of who they are and their past experiences. The Child's Own Story is an introduction to life story work and how this effective tool can be used to help children and young people recover from abuse ......
Providing accessible answers to these complex questions and more, this guide explores the key characteristics of collective trauma and provides practical advice on how to help children, young people and communities to heal.
A definitive guide to routines-based intervention where the author gives professionals a detailed framework for early intervention that addresses families' individual needs and helps children participate in daily routines. With the step-by-step guidance o
Written by leading mental health professionals, this warm and accessible parenting book for children with chronic illnesses offers clear, practical guidance for all aspects of the journey. The book places your psychological well-being front and centre, so you can be the best caregiver possible for your child.
"Developed by the experts who pioneered the Primary Service Provider approach, The Early Intervention Teaming Handbook, 2nd Edition discusses the benefits of the PSP model and shows readers how to put it into action. Readily usable forms, checklists, and other tools assist practitioners in implementing the practices at the program and family ......
For many vulnerable children, the idea of talking to an adult about their experiences and feelings can be a daunting prospect. This book demonstrates how the introduction of playfulness when working with neglected or abused children helps to build a trusting relationship by openly engaging with the childs world.
Audrey Mullender is Principal of Ruskin College, Oxford, UK. Her distinguished research career has focused on domestic violence, post-adoption issues for birth relatives and groupwork theory.
Disorganized attachment, the most extreme form of insecure attachment, can develop in a child when the person who is normally meant to protect them is a source of danger. This usually leads to 'fear without solution' and the effects can be lasting and damaging.This book is a comprehensive and accessible text on disorganized attachment. It outlines ......
How to Prepare for Every Stage of Your Child's Life
Written with compassion and expertise, this book provides families with a guide to planning for the lifetime needs of a child with disabilities. It presents the 'Five Factors' readers need to consider - family and support, emotional, financial, legal, and government benefits - and how to plan for these factors at every stage of a child's life.
Embedding Activities in Daily Routines for Young Children and Their Fami
Every interventionist needs this practical sourcebook, packed with research-based strategies for helping parents and caregivers take a consistent, active role in supporting young children's development.
Children who are cared for in an out of home placement are in need of support and stability. This classic text offers information and advice for professionals and carers on how to help these children, who will often have attachment difficulties. Vera I. Fahlberg, M.D. shares her experience and expertise, outlining the significance of attachment ......
nabling Children to Overcome Challenges and Achieve their Potential
Judith Milner and Jackie Bateman are both solution focused practitioners, trainers, consultants and writers. Previously a senior lecturer in social work, Judith now acts as an a therapist, consultant and Independent Expert to family courts in child protection, domestic violence and contested contact cases.
An Attachment and Trauma Informed Group Programme and Resource
Therapeutic Parenting provides mental health and social care practitioners with a comprehensive and proven group training programme for the therapeutic parenting of young people living in substitute care whose trust has been damaged by experience of abuse and neglect.
ASQ-3 (TM) is a low-cost, reliable, parent-completed tool for screening infants and young children for developmental delay in the crucial first 5 years of life.
Disorganized attachment is the most extreme form of insecure attachment. This book is a practical guide to caring for children and young people with disorganized attachment and related emotional and psychological difficulties.Synthesising attachment, trauma and mentalization theory into a useful practice model, Empathic Care for Children with ......
Is medication the right choice for treating your child's emotional or behavioral problems? How can you be confident that he or she has been properly diagnosed? What do you need to know to get the most benefits from medication treatment, with the least risk? From leading child psychiatrists Timothy Wilens and Paul Hammerness, this book has already ......
Steven Walker is Head of Child and Adolescent Mental Health at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. He is a registered social worker and psychotherapist and has worked in social care for over 30 years, specialising in child protection and child and adolescent mental health.
This book guides childcare professionals through attachment theory and provides techniques for caring for children with attachment difficulties.It explains what attachment is, what different patterns of attachment look like in children and young people, how early attachment experiences affect their lives, and how this understanding can help ......
