Focuses on understanding cultural and psychosocial contexts to promote optimal healing for disaster survivors This is the first book for mental health professionals working with survivors of mass trauma to focus on the psychosocial and culture contexts in which these disasters occur. It underscores the importance of understanding these ......
A Unique Framework for Supporting People with Intellectual Disabilities
This handbook promotes a perspective shift within learning disability services that aims to move the focus of professional support away from diagnosis and identifying what someone cannot do, towards assessing and supporting strengths and providing opportunities and resources to enhance people's quality of life. Designed to be used both by ......
Presents a practical, systematic decision-making model based on positive ethics that practitioners can use to address conflicting roles and responsibilities, balance competing ethical and legal requirements, and maintain high standards of ethical practice and professional competence.
A course manual to offer Holistic CBT as a group or individual therapy
This course manual provides the guidance and resources needed to run a Holistic Cognitive Behaviour Therapy 'Free to be Me' course with individuals or groups, including clinical and non-clinical populations. It can be used therapeutically in any mental health and related setting, as well as in community and faith groups aspersonal development.
A leadership development manual for frontline health and care staff
This essential training manual provides an effective framework to develop frontline health and social care staff as leaders for their teams, by increasing the nurse or carer's positive influence on their working environment, raising morale and confidence in improving the quality of care.
This training pack, developed specifically for people with intellectual disabilities, compromises a printed manual with guidance for facilitators who are supporting an individual to use the self-help resource (SAINT).
Real-life examples provided by clinical staff who made the transition to collaborative care are woven into the text, providing insight into the goals of improving outcomes, patient satisfaction, and cost containment.
How Caring Relationships Can Support Individuals with Enduring Distress
Some individuals with intellectual disabilities experience pervasive patterns of feeling and thinking that affect the way in which they relate to others and understand themselves - sometimes so overwhelmingly that they find it difficult to navigate the daily challenges of life.
The oppression of various groups has taken place throughout human history. People are stereotyped, discriminated against and treated unjustly simply because of their social group membership. But what does it look like when the oppression that people face from the outside gets under their skin? Long overdue, this is the first book to highlight the ......
