Making Connections with Vulnerable Children and Families is the practical go-to resource for practitioners looking to build effective relationships and engage meaningfully with vulnerable children and their families. Compiled by Jan Horwath, lead editor of the bestselling child protection handbook The Child's World, the text features a wealth ......
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 ......
An Evidence-Based Treatment for Chronic Pain and Opioid Use
The opioid crisis arose in part due to the attempt to relieve chronic pain. Meeting a huge need, this is the authoritative presentation of Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE) for chronic pain and opioid use. MORE is one of the few evidence-based treatments shown to simultaneously reduce opioid use and/or addiction, pain, and ......
An Evidence-Based Treatment for Chronic Pain and Opioid Use
The opioid crisis arose in part due to the attempt to relieve chronic pain. Meeting a huge need, this is the authoritative presentation of Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE) for chronic pain and opioid use. MORE is one of the few evidence-based treatments shown to simultaneously reduce opioid use and/or addiction, pain, and ......
What Counsellors and Therapists Can Learn from the Lived Experiences ofChild Sexual Abuse Survivors
Child sexual abuse leaves a legacy that continues to affect survivors in adulthood. This practical book is full of personal stories that provide helping professionals with the knowledge they need to truly meet survivors needs.
Exploring Humor in Child Welfare Casework: Laugh to Get Through It or Cry Forever explores how gallows humor is used among child welfare caseworkers and what the use of humor, and gallows humor, reveals about how employees experience stress and manage their emotions. Caseworkers utilize humor as a method to manage the dilemmas they face in their ......
With the aim of transforming flawed child welfare practices and policies into a more equitable system, this comprehensive, practice-based text delves into contemporary child welfare practice from antiracist, social justice, and decolonial perspectives.
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 ......
The authoritative presentation of cognitive processing therapy (CPT) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is now in a revised and updated second edition, with an easier-to-use format and a new chapter on conceptualizing treatment.
