Positive, empathic approaches to manage behaviours that challenge
Unravel the complexities of effectively managing behaviours that challenge through the 6-stage Target model. The 6 stages offer an empowering tool kit that builds upon positive skills and abilities when working with individuals under some form of supervision or care. This includes children in home, care or school environments, and adults that need ......
TaSSels Tactile Signing for Sensory Learners is a training resource pack that promotes effective tactile communication with children and young people who have profound and complex learning disabilities and often visual and/or hearing impairments. It comes with accompanying CD-ROM and DVD.
People and People with Learning Disabilities: ...and Maybe What to DoAbout It
his powerful booklet aims to challenge our thinking about the way we communicate and interact with autistic people and those with learning (intellectual) disabilities.
Written for both students and practitioners of gerontology, along with all professionals involved in the well-being of older adults, this highly accessible book provides a current and detailed description and analysis of local to global services for older people with or without cognitive, physical, or social needs.
Early Intervention for Children with Special Needs and Their Families
Addresses the complex issues that home visitors face in their daily work with families who have diverse backgrounds and needs. This book offers an approach to home visiting that's culturally sensitive, family centered and designed to help each unique family reach their specific goals.
Bipolar disorder is a lifelong challenge, but it doesn't have to rule your life. Join the many tens of thousands of readers who have used the science-based tools in this book to achieve greater balance and get the most out of treatment. Leading expert Dr. Monica Ramirez Basco helps you understand the nature of bipolar illness and recognize the ......
Opportunities and Challenges for Professional Practice
Provides the knowledge and skills social workers need when navigating the complex health care environment, while having to continuously adapt to change. Substantially revised and updated, this fourth edition delivers a wealth of new information reflecting the rapidly evolving health care landscape.
Everything You Need to Know to Help Your Parent and Yourself
Caring for a parent with dementia presents unique challenges—Mom or Dad so plainly needs assistance, but is confused, sometimes angry, and often resistant to help. How can caregivers get the vital information they need, when they need it? Journalist Thomas Harrison and leading geriatric psychiatrist Brent Forester show that you don’t have to be a ......
