Training and Development for Dementia Care Workers

Anthea Innes

Anthea Innes provides a complete guide to running a training programme for dementia care workers. She begins with a brief outline of the key factors to consider prior to the design and implementation of a programme. In particular the book stresses the importance of getting to know the care setting in which the trainees will practise. more »

Keyword: dementia

Understanding Dementia

The Man with the Worried Eyes

Richard Cheston and Michael Bender

The authors aim to advance a psychological framework from which to understand the experience of dementia from the perspective of the dementia sufferer, so making intelligible the symptoms of dementia and setting out new avenues of care such as the need to adopt psychotherapeutic/counselling approaches as an integral part of care. more »

Keyword: dementia

Violence

Reflections on Our Deadliest Epidemic

James Gilligan

He focuses on how feelings of shame cause violent and vengeful behaviour, argues that conventional punitive legal and penal systems which are based on notions of justice and retribution perpetuate violent behaviour. This ground-breaking book is a read for everyone touched by violence, all those who are working to prevent it and its consequences. more »

Keywords: forensic psychotherapy, offenders, social work, violence

First Steps in Parenting the Child who Hurts

Tiddlers and Toddlers
2nd edition

Caroline Archer

A "must have" book for both adoptive parents and for those professionals who help adoptive families forge new family ties…the author, herself an adoptive parent, addresses a wide variety of very complex topics with a marked sensitivity to the varying needs of children who may have had a wide range of early life experiences. more »

Keywords: adoption, children, families, fostering

Lifemaps of People with Learning Disabilities

Barry Gray and Geoff Ridden

This book contains 14 biographies written by people of all ages who have a learning disability. The authors discuss how these stories might be representative of other people with learning disabilities and what key themes may be identified from the stories. The pictorial form is accessible to people with learning disabilities. more »

Keyword: intellectual disabilities

Next Steps in Parenting the Child Who Hurts

Tykes and Teens

Caroline Archer

Caroline Archer sets out to provide adoptive and foster parents with an understanding of the complex range of difficulties with which their children may struggle as a result of their early experience of adversity. She presents strategies to help parents deal with their youngsters' troubling behaviour, in what seems to them a hostile world. more »

Keywords: adoption, child protection, child psychology, children, counselling, domestic abuse, emotions, families, fostering, parenting, trauma, violence

Children, Bereavement and Trauma

Nurturing Resilience

Paul Barnard, Ian Morland and Julie Nagy

The recognition of children's natural resilience as fundamental to their ability to cope with trauma is central to this book. Deriving from the authors' experience of working with bereaved children, the book promotes the idea of healthy coping, and explores ways in which children and their families can be enabled to do this. more »

Keywords: bereavement, challenging behaviour, child protection, children, counselling, death, emotions, palliative care, social care, social work, suicide, trauma

The Essential Groupworker

Teaching and Learning Creative Groupwork

Mark Doel and Catherine Sawdon

Focusing on how groupwork can be learnt and taught, the authors of this accessible book consider what is essential in effective work with groups. They develop a practice model which is applicable to a wide range of approaches and actively promotes anti-oppressive groupwork. It has been extensively trialled and refined in a social services agency. more »

Keyword: social work

The Forgotten Mourners

Guidelines for Working with Bereaved Children
2nd edition

Sister Margaret Pennells and Susan C Smith

Children have long been the "forgotten mourners". This new and revised edition raises awareness of the sensitive issues involved for bereaved children, highlighting their needs and their emotional and behavioural responses when a bereavement occurs. more »

Keywords: bereavement, children, education, palliative care

Karina Has Down Syndrome

One Family's Account of the Early Years with a Child who has Special Needs

Cheryl Rogers and Gun Dolva

Since their initial shock at their daughter's disability, Karina's parents have experienced the challenges and joys of raising a child with special needs. This is the account of Karina's first six years, as told to Cheryl Rogers. It is a valuable resource for the families of Down Syndrome children, teachers and disability service workers. more »

Keywords: Down's syndrome, families, intellectual disabilities, memoirs, parenting

Key Ideas in Psychology

Ian Stuart-Hamilton

This accessible book has a simple aim - to tell people what psychology is about. It presents a review of the key areas of the subject as it is traditionally taught, and provides the reader with an introduction to important concepts and findings within each of these. The reader should be able at least to make sense of most psychological topics. more »

Keyword: psychology

Marching to a Different Tune

Diary About an ADHD Boy

Jacky Fletcher

This book gives an essential new perspective to the understanding of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - it describes this complex set of behaviours from the inside. It complements and deepens the clinical presentation of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, at a time when this diagnosis is being applied to more and more children. more »

Keywords: ADHD, children, memoirs, occupational therapy

Researching the Arts Therapies

A Dramatherapist's Perspective

Roger Grainger

Writing from a dramatherapist's perspective, Grainger looks at methods of researching the arts therapies, and how particular definitions of research affect our understanding and practising of arts therapies. He places approaches to research in four categories: quantitative research, qualitative research, action research and art-based research. more »

Keywords: arts therapies, interdisciplinary arts therapies

Welfare and Culture in Europe

Towards a New Paradigm in Social Policy

Edited by Prue Chamberlayne, Andrew Cooper, Richard Freeman and Michael Rustin

This book describes how an awareness of culture must be applied to the study and provision of welfare in Europe. It shows how the cultures underpinning social welfare systems are starting to be exposed and explored. The assumption that the values and beliefs which constitute welfare systems are universal and absolute has been overturned. more »

Keywords: ethnicity, social care, social policy, social work

Adaptive University Structures

An Analysis of Adaptation to Socioeconomic Environments of US and European Universities

Barbara Sporn

This book examines adaptability in universities in Europe and the US, drawing out the lessons learnt for policy makers and managers to develop such structures, and help their institutions survive change. It looks at three US universities identified as adaptive and three European institutions which are trying to improve their adaptive capacity. more »

Keywords: education, higher education policy

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