Awards for Jessica Kingsley Publishers titles

ADHD - Living without Brakes

Martin L. Kutscher MD
Illustrated by Douglas Puder, M.D.

This concise and highly accessible book contains everything that parents and busy professionals need to know about ADHD.

The author describes the spectrum of ADHD, the co-occurring symptoms, and common difficulties that parents face. The rest of the book focuses on solutions, based around four rules. Rule number one is keeping it positive: punishments can change behavior, but only positive approaches can improve attitude. Rule number two is keeping it calm: it's difficult thinking clearly enough to solve problems logically if you are feeling overwhelmed. Rule...

Planning to Learn

Creating and Using a Personal Planner with Young People on the Autism Spectrum

Keely Harper-Hill and Stephanie Lord

Late intervention often means that young people on the autism spectrum appear to act on impulse, seem disorganized, or fail to learn from past experiences.
In this practical, effective resource, the authors share tried and tested techniques for creating and using a personal planner to help individuals on the autism spectrum to develop independence.

Help your Child or Teen Get Back On Track

What Parents and Professionals Can Do for Childhood Emotional and Behavioral Problems

Kenneth H. Talan, M.D.

Ken Book Award Winner 2008
Gold Medal Winner in the 2008 IPPY awards
Help Your Child or Teen get Back on Track offers specific self-help interventions and a wide-ranging, practical discussion of the types of professional help available for a child or adolescent with emotional and behavioral problems.

Autism Heroes

Portraits of Families Meeting the Challenge

Barbara Firestone, Ph.D.
Forewords by Teddi Cole and Gary Cole and Catherine Lord, Ph.D.
Photographs by Joe Buissink

Bronze Medal Winner in the 2008 IPPY awards
"Few have the combination of compassion, rigorous knowledge, passion for the field, and accomplishments in helping literally thousands of children with autism spectrum disorders as does Barbara Firestone. She is also an extraordinary listener, and a great observer of people, making her perspectives and collection of family stories coupled with Joe Buissink's photography extremely rich, inspiring, and instructive."
Michael O'Hanlon
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Parent of a Child with an Autism...

Help your Child or Teen Get Back On Track

What Parents and Professionals Can Do for Childhood Emotional and Behavioral Problems

Kenneth H. Talan, M.D.

Ken Book Award Winner 2008
Gold Medal Winner in the 2008 IPPY awards
Help Your Child or Teen get Back on Track offers specific self-help interventions and a wide-ranging, practical discussion of the types of professional help available for a child or adolescent with emotional and behavioral problems.

Gifted Children

A Guide for Parents and Professionals

Edited by Kate Distin

Winner of the NAGC Celebrating Gifts and Talents 2007 "Most Important Book" Gold Award
"This guide is grounded in rich seams of experience, with parents and former counsellors from NAGC taking us through the myths and realities of giftedness. It is a truly family offering, with encouragement for parents and professionals but, most importantly, for the gifted child herself."

Parenting Across the Autism Spectrum

Unexpected Lessons We Have Learned

Maureen F. Morrell and Ann Palmer

Autism Society of America Outstanding Literary Work of the Year 2007
'As forthright and enabling as Dr. Spock.'
- Kirkus Reviews
Maureen F. Morrell and Ann Palmer are raising two very different children: Justin, a whirlwind of activity and mood swings, who is supervised in a residential farm community, and Eric, quiet and passive, who lives independently at college. The authors give an account of the striking similarities as well as the stark differences in their experiences of parenting children at opposite extremes of the autism spectrum.

The...

Spiritual Growth and Care in the Fourth Age of Life

Elizabeth MacKinlay

Winner of the 2006 Australasian Journal on Ageing (AJA) Book Award
Spiritual Growth and Care in the Fourth Age of Life explores the spiritual dimension of ageing and investigates the role of pastoral and spiritual care in helping the frail elderly cope with end-of-life issues.

Autistic Planet

Jennifer Elder

Winner of a Gold Medal in the Moonbeam Children's Book awards Non-Fiction picture book category
Praise for Jennifer Elder's last book, Different Like Me :

All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome

Kathy Hoopmann

Moonbeam Childhood Wellness Award 2007 Bronze Medalist
Shortlisted for the 2007 Eve Pownall Award for Information Books by the Children's Book Council of Australia

All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome

Kathy Hoopmann

Moonbeam Childhood Wellness Award 2007 Bronze Medalist
Shortlisted for the 2007 Eve Pownall Award for Information Books by the Children's Book Council of Australia

Still Here with Me

Teenagers and Children on Losing a Parent

Edited by Suzanne Sjöqvist
Translated by Margaret Myers

Winner of the Young Minds Book Prize 2007
"The author has done a brilliant job of encouraging her subjects to link ordinary life to extreme events. I would thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who is experiencing a bereavement themselves, or trying to help someone who is. It is readable, direct, and sensitive without being mawkish."
-Will Self

Special Stories for Disability Awareness

Stories and Activities for Teachers, Parents and Professionals

Mal Leicester
Illustrated by Taryn Shrigley-Wightman

Runner up in the Nasen and TES Special Educational Needs Book Awards 2007
Stories both educate and entertain. We learn from them and the learning is fun. They also stimulate our imagination and creativity. In this collection of short stories, the heroes and heroines are disabled children who defy the stereotypes associated with being disabled: being pitiable, a victim, freakish or a burden.

Autism and Me

Rory Hoy

Runner up in the Nasen and TES Special Educational Needs Book Awards 2007
Only people with autism truly know what it's like to be autistic - and even then, every autistic individual is unique! This award-winning short film by Rory Hoy, an 18-year-old filmmaker with autism, provides a privileged glimpse into his autistic world, letting us take a journey through his everyday experience and see it through his eyes.

The Psychology of Ageing

An Introduction
4th edition

Ian Stuart-Hamilton

Commended in the 2007 BMA Medical Book Competition, Healthcare for the Elderly category

Review of the 3rd edition
'Ian Stuart-Hamilton's text…has…become a "classic" text in its field...a very readable and academically accessible introductory textbook… Stuart-Hamilton's excitement for the potential developments in the area of psychogerontology is perhaps the greatest strength of this textbook. It is likely to engage student interest at undergraduate level and provide a basic platform from which...

Autism, Brain, and Environment

Richard Lathe

Commended in the 2007 BMA Medical Book Competition, Popular Medicine category
"His book is a clearly and accessibly written account of his proposal that environmental poisons, including heavy metals, interact with genetic vulnerability to cause damage to the limbic brain system...resulting in autism...This is, overall, a scholarly book providing a possible explanation of autism. It will be of interest to parents as well as professionals."
- Nature

Shattered Lives

Children Who Live with Courage and Dignity

Camila Batmanghelidjh

Shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Prize 2006

Shattered Lives bears witness to the lives of children who have experienced abuse and neglect, and highlights the effects of early traumatic episodes. Chapters take the form of letters to a child capturing their life experiences, hugely impacted by sexual abuse, parental substance misuse and loss, leading to feelings of shame, rejection and worthlessness. Batmanghelidjh offers understanding for those baffled by these hard-to-reach children and warns against stigmatizing them for their problem...

Depression in Later Life

Jill Manthorpe and Steve Iliffe

Winner of the 2006 BMA Book Award for Health care for the Elderly.
This accessible and authoritative book provides an invaluable guide to identifying, treating and preventing depression in later life.

Touch and Go Joe

An Adolescent's Experience of OCD

Joe Wells
Foreword by Isobel Heyman

Runner up in the Nasen and TES Special Education Needs Book Awards 2006  
'I feel as if I have been waiting for this book. Children and teenagers with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) have been asking for this book for years.'
- from the foreword by Isobel Heyman

Caged in Chaos

A Dyspraxic Guide to Breaking Free

Victoria Biggs

Winner of the Nasen/TES Special Educational Needs Children's Book Award 2005.

'I describe life with my hidden handicap as "lying diagonally in a parallel universe" - I'm always slightly out of step with everyone else...always with a skewed view of things. Luckily I now really enjoy life on a tilt.'
- Victoria Biggs

Adam's Alternative Sports Day

An Asperger Story

Jude Welton

Shortlisted for the NASEN and TES Special Educational Needs Book Awards 2005

Nine-year-old Adam dreads Sports Day - he usually comes last in the races and never gets chosen for the team events. So he is delighted when Mr Williams, the head teacher, announces that this year there will be an Alternative Sports Day with some very different challenges. There will be quizzes, riddles to solve, and a treasure hunt - all the things that Adam enjoys. At last he'll have a chance of winning something.

The Pits and the Pendulum

A Life with Bipolar Disorder

Brian Adams

Shortlisted for 2004's Mind Book of the Year Award .

Writing a prize-winning play; spending a week doing nothing but build Lego constructions; sinking all his savings into wildly impractical money-making schemes - these are just some results of the periods of intense creative energy Brian Adams has experienced throughout his adult life. As a sufferer of bipolar disorder, he has also been hospitalised several times with debilitating depression and undergone electric shock treatment, and gained and lost...

Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome

A User Guide to Adolescence

Luke Jackson
Foreword by Tony Attwood

Winner of the NASEN & TES Special Educational Needs Children's Book Award 2003

Have you ever been called a freak or a geek? Have you ever felt like one? Luke Jackson is 13 years old and has Asperger Syndrome. Over the years Luke has learned to laugh at such names but there are other aspects of life which are more difficult. Adolescence and the teenage years are a minefield of emotions, transitions and decisions and when a child has Asperger Syndrome, the result is often explosive.

Haze

Kathy Hoopmann

Runner up in the NASEN Children's Book Award

Acclaimed author of the Asperger Adventures series for children Kathy Hoopmann has turned her hand to a novel for teenagers. Much more than just a book about a boy with Asperger Syndrome, this is her best book yet. Weaving the facts of Seb's Asperger Syndrome into the story, this fast-paced book will be a rivetting read for teenagers of all sorts and abilities.

Growing Up Severely Autistic

They Call Me Gabriel

Kate Rankin

Gabriel is a teenager who is severely autistic: he is completely unsocialized, is incontinent and is unable to speak. In this book his mother, with great honesty, describes what it is like to bring up an autistic child who requires constant care and exhibits challenging behaviour.

Small Steps Forward

Using Games and Activities to Help Your Pre-School Child with Special Needs

Sarah Newman

Winner of the British Medical Association's Popular Medicine Book of the Year 2000
When young children are diagnosed with conditions such as Down's Syndrome, autism or other forms of developmental delay, there is much that parents can do to help. Small Steps Forward provides parents and carers with the information they require and a host of ideas to encourage their child's development. The games and activities suggested in the book use toys and materials which most children will already have, and involve no special preparation. They are also fun to play.