After family violence, very young children and babies benefit from child-led therapy, but how do you achieve this? Dr. Wendy Bunstons guide is here to help you to meet the emotional needs of children who are experiencing trauma, and to enable them to form healthy attachments, both within their families and ......
"Did I sound stupid?" "Should I have sent that email?" "How do I look?" Many of us spend a lot of time feeling self-conscious and comparing ourselves to others. Why do we judge ourselves so relentlessly? Why do we strive so hard to be special or successful, or to avoid feeling rejected? When psychologist and mindfulness expert Dr. Ronald Siegel ......
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 ......
A Trauma-informed Guide for Counselors, Educators and Parents
Riley the Brave is back with a trauma-informed feelings activity book for children ages 5-10. Empower the brave cubs in your life with 60+ games and activities to help them be the boss of their brains. This strengths-based approach is easily adaptable for groups and classrooms. Features an educational introduction for caring adults.
How to Foster Resilience through Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency
Packed with practical clinical tools, this guide explains how to plan and organize individualized interventions that promote resilience, strengthen child-caregiver relationships, and restore developmental competencies derailed by chronic, multiple stressors. Includes more than 45 reproducibles.
A Guide to Working with Diversity and Developing Cultural Sensitivity
Award-winning social worker and diversity trainer Vivian Okeze-Tirado has developed the perfect tool to increase and develop your cultural competence. With practical, easy-to-implement steps for a wide range of professions, you can take active steps.
Essential reading for all new social workers, this guide channels a wealth of experience into key strategies for thriving under pressure. Clear, practical advice for dealing with challenges - including increasing political, social, and economic pressure - shows you how to survive when the going gets tough and how to thrive when you come through.
This hands-on guide steps beyond initial professional training and dives into the vast world of workplace learning. Whether youre supervising students on placement or helping colleagues gain workplace qualifications, this handbook shows you how to give the best support and get the best results.
This essential guide brings a much-needed focus on the area of safeguarding young people in a way which is holistic, person-centred and evidence-informed. It sets out key challenges and potential solutions in this area of work, explores key research and practice knowledge, and invites whole-system innovation in how young people are supported to be ......
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.
A revealing account of a three-year therapy journey between a therapist and client, co-authored by them both. It sensitively presents the challenges that an adult survivor of childhood abuse had to overcome, and offers insight for therapists into how creative use of relational models of working paved the way for the client's healing.
Ideas and Activities for Working with Anger and Emotional Regulation
Support children to better understand and manage their anger with this practical guide of therapeutic activities. From exploring a child's first steps in therapy to helping parents and carers with their responses, this book provides practical advice for working with children aged 4-12 and families navigating issues of anger and emotional ......
Emerging Therapeutic Frameworks for Supporting Individuals, Families or
The definitive Handbook of Trauma-Transformative Practice brings together the work of leading international trauma experts to provide a detailed overview of trauma-informed practice and intervention: its history, the latest frameworks for practice and an inspiring vision for future trauma-transformative practice. The Handbook is ......
A Practical Guide for Early Intervention and Child Protection
Grounded in extensive experience and research, this book provides an invaluable look at the potential of Motivational Interviewing (MI) in child and family social work. With real life examples from professionals in the field, it explores what MI is and how it is used in safeguarding work, also providing guidance on improving skills and practice.
Parents can play a strong role in helping their children overcome anxiety disorders--given the right tools. This innovative, research-based book shows clinicians how to teach parents cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques to use with their 5- to 12-year-old. Session-by-session guidelines are provided for giving parents the skills to promote ......
This acclaimed work, now in a new edition, has introduced tens of thousands of clinicians to mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) for depression, an 8-week program with proven effectiveness. Step by step, the authors explain the "whys" and "how-tos" of conducting mindfulness practices and cognitive interventions that have been shown to ......
Featuring an evidence- and strengths-based approach to practice methods, this text teaches students how to apply social work skills in a variety of settings. Designed to enhance self-awareness, professionalism, ethical reasoning, cultural sensitivity, and an appreciation for social justice issues, readers are introduced to social work's core ......
Describes the essential interpersonal skills that social workers need in community practice and helps students cultivate them. Drawing from empirical literature on community social work practice and the author's own experience working with community organisers, the book focuses on developing the macro-level skills that are especially useful for ......
This book is the authoritative presentation of contextual emotion regulation therapy (CERT), an innovative intervention expressly designed for depressed children ages 7-13 and their parents.
A Ready-to-Use Resource for Trauma, Adversity, and Culturally Informed,
This Treasure Box book is packed full of valuable resources from bestselling and award-winning author, trainer, organizational consultant, and Clinical Psychologist Dr. Karen Treisman, and will show you how to weave a deep understanding of trauma and adversity into the daily practice and the whole fabric of your organization. This expert ......
Trauma and attachment are commonly used terms, but are complex concepts. 'Trauma' refers to negative experiences that cause us to fear for our safety, whilst 'attachment' describes meaningful relationships with someone we love or respect. Why, then, is so much of the language surrounding these concepts so obscure, and why is it so challenging to ......
"What should I do when a client asks me personal questions?" "How do my clients multiple problems fit together, and which ones should we focus on in treatment?" This engaging text--now revised and updated--has helped tens of thousands of students and novice cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) practitioners build skills and confidence for ......
This compelling book provides psychotherapists with evidence-based strategies for harnessing the power of language to free clients from life-constricting patterns and promote psychological flourishing. Grounded in relational frame theory (RFT), the volume shares innovative ways to enhance assessment and intervention using specific kinds of ......
Transform your use of Theraplay (R) in combination with other modalities to address your clients individual needs. From advice for working with special populations to synchronising Theraplay (R) with other therapeutic models, this guide will help you to develop innovative practice informed by the latest research.
This new and fully updated edition of the best-selling theories text for social workers introduces social work students and practitioners to a wide variety of theories for direct social work practice.
From experts on working with court-mandated populations, this book shows how motivational interviewing (MI) can help offenders move beyond resistance or superficial compliance and achieve meaningful behavior change. Using this evidence-based approach promotes successful rehabilitation and reentry by drawing on clients' values, goals, and ......
Activities and Lesson Plans to Raise Awareness with Young People Aged 14
A collection of activities for those working with young people aged 14-19 to build awareness of the risks of gangs and related crime. The book covers topics including risk taking, peer pressure, knife and gun crime, county lines and anger and violence, whilst encouraging young people to build assertiveness and make healthy and safe choices.
This highly accessible work, now thoroughly revised, has shown thousands of students and clinicians how to assess and treat children's emotional and behavioral difficulties from a developmental perspective. The authors provide a sound understanding of typical development (ages 2-12) and the risk and protective factors for psychopathology. Chapters ......
Provides advice and strategies for child welfare professionals working with transgender and gender expansive youth and their families, including social workers, youth workers and students, among others. This guide offers practical skills to implement into practice and is supported by case studies throughout.
Fully revised and updated guide to being an excellent supervisor in the social care, nursing, counselling and allied health professions. Packed with essential updates informed by the very latest research in the field, and full of clinical case examples, this second edition is an essential guide for all professional and trainee supervisors.
New edition of a bestselling guide to understanding and responding to troubled adults, building on attachment theory and a series of case studies to create an integrative, safe and effective approach to relating to individuals and enabling positive change.
How Mariana Overcame Loneliness and Shame and Learned to Sing Her Own So
Abandoned on the ocean floor, Mariana the Mermaid feels useless as she can't swim or join in with the other mermaids. Muriel the Turtle helps her find self-confidence through singing her own mighty song. This therapeutic picture book is for children aged 4-9 who lack self-confidence, including children who have had difficult life experiences.
This authoritative resource, now thoroughly revised for DSM-5, has set the standard for the comprehensive assessment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Leading experts demonstrate how to craft a scientifically grounded profile of each child's strengths and difficulties, make a formal diagnosis, and use assessment data to guide individualized ......
Making a Real Difference for Staff and Service Users
This third edition of the best selling Staff Supervision in Social Care offers essential new material, as well as updating the existing core material covering the fundamentals of good supervision, group supervision and the emotional impact of the work. This edition extends the understanding and application of the critical links between ......
Homelessness has increased rapidly in recent years, and with increasing economic pressures on the horizon, looks set to continue to increase. This interdisciplinary book outlines good practice on how to support people experiencing homelessness, who increasingly experience abuse, exploitation and neglect, escalating health and care needs, and ......
A comprehensive overview of the field of counseling psychology that surveys key professional practices, interventions, research, and basic concepts. It examines the growth of the field; its foundations; contributions to research; and the ways in which counseling psychologists have helped develop effective practices in psychotherapy and counseling.