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Adoption Law: A Practical Guide
The Adoption and Children Act 2002, which sets out the statutory framework, contains 115 sections and 5 schedules. These provisions are supported by secondary legislation, international conventions, rules, guidance, practice notes and case law that has developed since the Act came into force. The paramount consideration in every decision relating to the adoption of a child is the child’s welfare throughout their life. In doing so the decision maker also has to consider and balance the competing rights protected under the European Convention on Human Rights of all parties in the adoption process and also the child’s rights under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Adoption Law: A Practical Guide seeks to provide a comprehensive guide to the law, practice and procedure for professionals as well as those who are concerned with or involved in the adoption process. It covers each stage of the adoption process, including the difficult issue of contact between the child and their birth parents and the alternative options available by reference to the relevant case law and regulations in relation to domestic adoptions as well as adoptions with a foreign element. Registration of adoption and the sensitive issue of disclosure of information are also considered. The book deals with the statutory obligations and responsibilities imposed on adoption agencies, support services and other professional bodies who are concerned with adoption towards all the parties, including the child who is the subject of the proceedings. It also outlines the rights of those parties to challenge decisions made by the professional bodies involved in the process.Read more
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CBT for Young People: The Complete CBT Workbook for Kids, Children, Teens, and Adolescents: Improve Mental Health, Overcome Anxiety, Depression, Low … Anger, and Develop…
Searching for anxiety books for kids, teens, and adolescents that effectively address mental health challenges? Discover the comprehensive CBT workbook for adults to support young people in overcoming anxiety, depression, anger, low self-esteem, and more…Struggling to find the right tools to help young people manage anxiety, depression, anger, and low self-esteem? Want to make a positive impact but are overwhelmed by information and time constraints? Look no further. CBT for Young People is your go-to anxiety book for teens, kids, and adolescents. This guide will help you master the evidence-based therapy that revolutionized mental health treatment.
With 30 years of experience in teaching and therapy, author Alison Triste equips you with the knowledge and techniques needed to help children, teens, and adolescents navigate their emotions, build resilience, and improve emotional regulation for a happier future.
This extensive workbook for teens and kids will provide you with the tools and expertise you need to support the emotional well-being of young people.
You will also gain access to 100 downloadable worksheets, questionnaires, and activities designed specifically for children and teens. By reading this book, you will gain the confidence to help young people with low self-esteem and cope with uncomfortable emotions.
Inside CBT for Young People, you’ll find:
- A clear, concise introduction to CBT, cognitive behavior therapy for kids and its effectiveness in treating young people’s mental health issues, including anxiety, depression, OCD, low self-esteem, and anger.
- A step-by-step guide to applying the Cognitive Behavioural Map (CBM) for assessing and addressing children’s and teenagers’ emotional challenges, such as low self-esteem in childhood and adolescence.
- In-depth explanations of common mental health disorders like depression, anxiety, and OCD in kids, their symptoms, and evidence-based treatments.
- Hands-on strategies and techniques to help young people build emotional resilience, cope with stressors, and develop healthy emotional regulation skills.
- An emotional regulation workbook with over 100 downloadable worksheets designed to engage, educate, and empower young minds on their journey to emotional well-being.
- And much, much more!
With an incredible 425 pages, printed in vibrant color, CBT for Young People provides you with a treasure trove of invaluable information and guidance.
This extensive resource goes above and beyond, granting you access to an exclusive online portal. Here, you’ll be able to freely download and print the Cognitive Behavioural Map (CBM), assessment worksheets, and disorder-specific worksheets at your convenience.
Imagine the difference you’ll make in the lives of young people as you utilize these practical resources, all meticulously designed to help them on their path to emotional well-being. Don’t settle for less; join those dedicated to making a real, lasting impact, and embrace the transformative power of CBT for Young People.
Don’t miss this opportunity to transform the lives of kids and teenagers with the power of CBT. This mental health self-help resource also includes depression workbooks, PTSD workbooks, and anger workbooks for teens.
Get your copy of “CBT for Young People” today and start making a real difference in the emotional wellbeing of the young people you care about!
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Educating Children and Young People with Acquired Brain Injury
Educating Children with Acquired Brain Injury is an authoritative resource book on the effects of brain injury on young people and how educators can understand and support their needs. This new edition has been updated to reflect changes to legislation and practice relating to special educational needs and will enable you to maximise the learning opportunities for young people with acquired brain injury (ABI). Considering key areas in special educational needs such as communication, interaction, cognition, sensory and physical needs, the book provides information on the multifaceted needs of children and young people with ABI and how these needs can be met.
This book will help you to:
- Understand the difficulties that young people with ABI experience
- Support these students by using appropriate strategies to help their learning
- Understand and address the social and emotional difficulties experienced by these students
- Work in partnership with families and other professionals
- Understand information from other professionals by reference to a glossary of terms
- Access further useful information from relevant resources and organisations
Written for SENCOs, teachers, teaching assistants, educational psychologists and other education professionals across all settings, Educating Children with Acquired Brain Injury is full of useful information and advice for parents and other family members, clinical and behavioural psychologists, therapists and support workers involved with children and young people with ABI.
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CACHE Level 3 Child Care and Education
Help your students master the knowledge and skills they need for the new CACHE Level 3 Award, Certificate and Diploma in Childcare & Education (Early Years Educator)
Written by experts Carolyn Meggitt and Tina Bruce, this is the only resource for the Level 3 Diploma in Childcare & Education (EYE) endorsed by CACHE. The approachable writing style makes learning key concepts both easy and enjoyable for all learners, and all aspects of the qualification are covered and linked to specific learning outcomes. This book will support your students through their assessment and the start of their careers.
– Communicates all the requirements of the new qualification fully with clearly stated learning
outcomes and key terms
– Shows how concepts are applied in real settings with numerous case studies
– ‘In Practice’ boxes give students the opportunity to check and reflect on their understanding
– Includes activity boxes linked to assessment criteria to prepare learners for examinations
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CACHE Level 3 Early Years Educator for the Work-Based Learner: The only textbook for Early Years endorsed by CACHE
Master the knowledge and skills you need to obtain the new work-based CACHE Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Workforce (Early Years Educator) qualification.
Written by bestselling author and early years expert Penny Tassoni, this is the only textbook for work-based learners endorsed by CACHE. Tassoni makes learning the key concepts on the job both easy and enjoyable. This book will support you through your assessment and the start of your career.
– Understand all the requirements of the new qualification fully with clearly stated learning outcomes and key terms
– See how concepts are applied to a range of settings with numerous case studies
– Learn to reflect on your own skills and experiences with numerous ‘Reflection’ boxes
– Practise what you’ve learned with ‘In practice’ and ‘In your setting’ activity boxes
– Prepare for examinations and assessment with confidence via activities linked to assessment criteriaRead more
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Attachment Handbook For Foster Care And Adoption;
Attachment is at the heart of family life and at the heart of foster care and adoption. Attachment theory and research provide a vital developmental framework for making sense of the behaviour and relationship strengths and difficulties that children bring from their complex backgrounds. This authoritative book – now in its second edition – provides an accessible account of core attachment concepts and the Secure Base model. It traces the pathways of secure and insecure patterns from birth to adulthood, exploring the impact of past experiences of abuse, neglect and separation on children’s behaviour in foster and adoptive families. It then explains the Secure Base dimensions of parenting that are associated with helping children to feel more secure and to fulfil their potential in the family and in the community. Finally, it tackles the key role which ‘keeping attachment in mind’ can play in family placement practice, and offers useful advice to carers on how they can provide a secure base.Read more
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Becoming an Adoption-Friendly School: A Whole-School Resource for Supporting Children Who Have Experienced Trauma or Loss – With Complementary Downloadable Material
Adopted children who have experienced loss, abuse or neglect need additional support for their emotional development, and are more likely to have special educational needs. This useful resource provides a complete plan for creating adoption-friendly environments in primary, secondary and specialist schools.
The book is grounded on new research which gathered together testimonies from over 400 school staff members, adoptive parents and adoption specialists. With realistic consideration of pressures and limitations currently faced by schools, it gives advice on eight key areas for school development, including communicating with parents, training staff, using resources wisely and recognising children’s individual needs. Completing the toolkit is a broad selection of photocopiable and downloadable plans for establishing adoption-friendly frameworks, and for demonstrating good practice to staff, pupils, families and school inspectors.
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Adoption Unfiltered: Revelations from Adoptees, Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents, and Allies
Reveals the candid thoughts and feelings of those most directly involved in adoptions: the adoptee, the adopters, and the birth parents.Adoption Unfiltered authors Sara Easterly (adoptee), Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard (birth parent), and Lori Holden (adoptive parent) interview more than 30 adoptees, 20 birth parents, a dozen adoptive parents, and several industry professionals―all sharing candidly about the challenges in adoption. While finding common ground in the sometimes-contentious space of adoption may seem like a lofty goal, it reveals the authors’ optimistic aim: working together with truth and transparency to move toward healing. Flipping the typical script, in which adoptive parents take the lion’s share of the narrative, this book leads with adoptee stories then moves on to stories of challenges and perspectives of birth parents―so often marginalized and silent. The third section offers narratives from adoptive parents who are working through their unique challenges. We also hear from adoption professionals, who share the challenges of operating ethically amid rampant unethical practices in the unregulated world of finding infants and children for homes. Finally, we hear from activists and adoption-competent therapists, offering their ideas to make adoption policies and practices better for all involved. Adoption is a beautiful experience but has challenges just like any other relationship or family system. The unique perspectives found here can help to smooth out the rough spots, celebrate the joys, and provide comfort and confirmation for everyone involved in the adoption journey.Read more
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Chinese Medicine for Childhood Anxiety and Depression: A Practical Guide for Practitioners and Parents
Tackling mental-emotional health problems in young people from a Chinese medicine perspective, this book shows how a child’s mental-emotional health is intrinsically connected with core elements of their everyday life. It suggests an approach to preventing and healing anxiety and depression that involves neither medication nor costs anything.
Part One of the book explains Chinese medicine concepts related to mental-emotional health in a way that is accessible for those with no prior knowledge. It includes chapters on how to recognise a child’s Five Element imbalance and how children of each element type need a different kind of nurture and lifestyle in order to remain mentally-emotionally healthy. Each chapter in Part Two examines a particular pillar of mental-emotional health such as connection, family life, emotions, and diet through a Chinese medicine lens. Each chapter is full of practical tips. Throughout, there is an emphasis on guiding parents and practitioners to discern what is right for a particular child, and that each child will need something different.
Addressing childhood anxiety and depression using a unique, accessible, and practical perspective, Chinese Medicine for Childhood Anxiety and Depression is an invaluable book for practitioners and parents alike.
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The Adoption Reunion Handbook
The book describes the experiences that people have had when tracing their birth parents, as well as offering practical advice on how to go about searching and what to expect emotionally. Each section has an advice box which summarizes key points, notes issues to pay particular attention to, or offers draft letters that readers can adapt for their own needs. The appendix contains useful addresses and weblinks, and includes checklists for searching and for the reunion. Chapters include reunion with birth fathers and birth siblings, as well as with birth mothers, the relationship with the adoptive family and dealing with reunions that break down.Read more
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Adoption Beyond Borders: How International Adoption Benefits Children
Now Available in Paperback, Adoption Beyond Borders endorses international adoption as a viable path to child welfare by exploring key topics including:
� Effects of institutionalization on children’s developing brains, cognitive abilities, and socioemotional functioning
� Challenges of navigating issues of identity when adopting across national, cultural, and racial lines
� Strong emotional bonds that form even without genetic relatedness
� How adoptive families can address the special needs of children who experienced early neglect and deprivation, thereby providing a supportive environment in which to flourish
� Features the author’s first-hand accounts of her own adoption journey as she visited a Kazakhstani orphanage daily for nearly a year, and illustrates the complexities and implications of the research evidenceRead more
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Life Story Therapy with Traumatized Children: A Model for Practice
Life Story Therapy is an approach designed to enable children to explore, question and understand the past events of their lives. It aims to secure their future through strengthening attachment with their carers and providing the opportunity to develop a healthy sense of self and a feeling of wellbeing. This comprehensive overview lays out the theory underlying life story therapy, including an accessible explanation of contemporary research in neurobiology and trauma. Featuring tried and tested ideas, with tools and templates illustrated through instructive case studies, the author identifies how life story therapy can be implemented in practice. Finally, the relationships between life story therapy and traditional ‘talking’ therapies are explored. Life Story Therapy with Traumatized Children is essential reading for those working with children and adolescents, including social workers, teachers, child psychotherapists, residential care staff, long-term carers, psychologists and other professionals.Read more
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The Secure Base Model: Promoting attachment and resilience in foster care and adoption
All children need to feel secure in their relationships with the adults who look after them. Where children have not experienced the kind of sensitive parenting that promotes security and resilience, they will find it difficult to trust and will struggle with managing their feelings and behaviour. What strategies can be used to provide sensitive caregiving that develops secure close relationships? How can children be helped to recover from earlier harmful experiences and feel competent to face future challenges successfully and fulfil their potential? What can help children develop resilience, self-esteem and the capacity to reflect on their feelings and have a sense of hope for the future? Secure Base is a model of caregiving in fostering and adoption that is based on theories of attachment and resilience while also drawing on child placement research. It provides a valuable framework and a strengths-based approach for making sense of children s needs and behaviours and sets out the dimensions of caregiving that can support children to thrive and to fulfil their potential. This practical guide to the Secure Base is designed to support social workers and other professionals involved in all aspects of fostering and adoption practice, from recruitment, assessment and preparation to matching and long-term support for placements through to adulthood. It will enable workers to effectively promote attachment and resilience in foster care.Read more
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Sign with Your Baby: How to Communicate with Infants Before They Can Speak
Trusted by more than 2,500,000 parents, medical professionals, teachers, childcare professionals . . . and babies . . . worldwide! Sign2Me Early Learning’s Best Seller, “Sign with your Baby” is truly the Grandfather of all ASL Baby Sign Language programs! This is the program that launched the ASL Baby Sign Language revolution. This book teaches hearing parents how to use simple sign language gestures to communicate with their hearing infants before their infants can speak. Joseph Garcia uses anecdotes, practical guidelines and humor to explain the benefits and method for taking advantage of this unique form of early communication. He will help you recognize when your child is receptive to learning. He recommends which signs to teach first and shares ideas for games that can be fun and useful when introducing new signs. The book is also a useful reference with 145 clearly illustrated signs, enabling you to choose and teach the signs that will be most beneficial to you and your child. This book is also included in a separate “package” edition called the SIGN with your BABY Complete Learning Kit – which is comprised of the book, 60 minute training video and quick reference guide.Read more
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Success Life Skills for Teens: 4 Books in 1 – Learn Essential Life Skills, Master Social Skills, Become Financially Savvy, Find Your Future Dream … Huge Success (Life Skill…
Every Teen’s Ultimate Resource to Master the Most Essential Life Skills and Prepare for a Successful Future…
???? The Perfect Gift for Teen Boys and Girls From Ages 12-19 Years Old ????
Success Life Skills for Teens is a collection of 4 books that are designed to help your teen with every aspect of their pursuit of a successful and easy life. They can learn everything they need to know from practical life skills such as cooking and cleaning to responsible financial planning and impeccable communication skills that will really give them a bulletproof foundation for entering adulthood. There’s also a career planning deep dive for those who have no idea what they REALLY WANT from life.
The combination of the following four books will help your teen lay the foundation they need to build now if they really want to make the most out of their life:
Book 1. The Big Book of Adulting Life Skills for Teens
- The 4 pillars of building healthy and rewarding relationships
- Everything you need to know before you move away from your parents
- How to plan your weekly meals the RIGHT way so that you can eat healthy and save money!
- A must-know investing secret they will never teach you in school (you want to understand this if you want to become rich one day)
- How to keep your home clean and organized without it feeling like a chore
- How to preserve your most precious asset (learn what it is from the book!) to achieve more and bigger goals fast
- A secret mindset that the most successful athletes, leaders and entrepreneurs implemented at an early age to achieve success
Book 2. Money Skills for Teens
- The 3 different ways you can start making money already as a teen
- Mindset first: How to develop a healthy money mindset and set up your financial goals… the right way
- How to open and manage your first very own bank account
- Vital tips for creating your first budget that really works
- The “magic” behind growing your wealth (You don’t want to miss this!)
Book 3. Social Skills for Teens
- The number 1 reason why you haven’t overcome shyness and how to reverse it!
- A secret mindset that will help you beat any obstacle life throws your way (This is a must-have!)
- Things no one taught you about verbal and non-verbal communication
- How to finally overcome social anxiety for good
- How to easily build meaningful new relationships that will last a lifetime
- Forget SMART goals. Learn a simpler way of setting personal goals that you will ACTUALLY achieve
Book 4. Career Planning for Teens
- An incredibly effective self-assessment that will finally reveal your true self (And your hidden talents!)
- A Simple step-by-step process to finding the profession that suits you
- A 3-step process to developing your skillset to become the best candidate on the job market
- How and where to get help when you need it the most
- Planning your education the RIGHT way so that you neither waste time nor money
- How to gain highly-valued practical experience even if you cannot get a job
- Finally, land your dream job and turn that into a highly successful career
And much, much more!
Each book is planned to be engaging and interesting for your teen’s mind because learning important skills should not be boring (like in school), but FUN! They are packed with simple and actionable tips and strategies along with easy-to-understand examples that will make implementing the new skills as effortless as possible.
Make adulting easier for your teen now! Scroll up and click the “Add to Cart” button to order your copy instantly.
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ADHD For Dummies
Demystify ADHD with simple explanations of the basics and the latest research
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most globally prevalent neurodevelopmental disorders. ADHD For Dummies explores living a healthy and fulfilling life with ADHD, from seeking diagnosis to choosing the right treatment path for you or your loved one. You’ll read about the latest in ADHD research, equipping you with valuable knowledge as you care for a child with ADHD or explore your own ADHD symptoms as an adult. This book provides the answers you need on how to deal with day-to-day challenges at home, school, and work, and how to find support and counseling. With appropriate management, anyone can live a great life with ADHD.
- Learn what ADHD is―and what it isn’t
- Get up to date with the latest information on ADHD, including medications and non-medical treatments
- Find the right professional to help you get the support you or your children need
This is the perfect Dummies guide for both parents of children with ADHD and adults with ADHD looking to learn more. Teachers, counselors, and therapists―this is also a great resource to educate yourself and your clients.
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£18.00ADHD For Dummies
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Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children: Creative Ideas for Therapy, Life Story Work, Direct Work and Parenting
Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children is full of creative ideas for how you can use stories therapeutically with children in counseling, life story work or direct work. Psychologist Kim S. Golding shows how you can use stories to build connections with children aged 4 16 and support their recovery from trauma and stress. She illustrates the techniques with 21 stories adapted from her own clinical work with children and families, and explains how you can expand or adapt them to make them more relevant for a particular child. Advice and stories are arranged into sections dealing with common psychological issues, including looking back and moving on, lack of trust and need for attention. Golding also gives invaluable tips for planning stories and life story work, and for storymaking with children. She also describes how stories can be used therapeutically with parents of traumatized children and as a tool for self-reflection by counselors. Imaginative and practical, this book will be enormously useful for counselors, psychologists, therapists and social workers working with traumatized children, and will also be helpful for parents and carers involved in therapeutic parenting.Read more
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Career Planning for Teens: How to Understand Your Identity, Cultivate Your Skills, Find Your Dream Job, and Turn That Into a Successful Career (Life Skill Handbooks for Teens)
If your teen wants to have a highly successful career when they grow up but have no idea where to get started this guide is for them! Keep reading if you want to know how your teen could benefit from this book as well!
???? The Perfect Gift for Teen Boys and Girls From Ages 12-19 Years Old ????
Is your teenager scared of making a bad career choice that they will deeply regret as an adult?
Is the constant worry about their future already giving them a headache?
Are you looking for a guide that would step-by-step walk your teen through finding the right career path so that they could sleep nights well knowing that they’ve made the right decision?
If so, then this book is for you.
Choosing the right career path is one of the biggest decisions teens will have to make early on in life. And you don’t want them to get that wrong, do you?
Even though they might currently feel lost, you see, making the right career choice doesn’t have to be difficult.
Even if you’ve already spent months and months trying to find the right one…
The truth is, it’s much simpler than you think.
With over 10 years of experience in the education and parenting fields, Emily Carter provides your teen with a step-by-step blueprint for finding their dream job and turning that into a highly successful and profitable career without having to spend endless nights just scratching their head and stressing over what they’re going to do with their life.
Here’s just a fraction of what you will discover in Career Planning for Teens:
- An incredibly effective self-assessment that will finally reveal your teen’s true self (And their hidden talents!) – Page 10
- A Simple step-by-step process to finding the profession that suits your teen the best – Page 24
- A 3-step process to developing your skillset to become the best candidate on the job market – Page 36
- How and where to get help when your teen needs it the most – Page 55
- Planning your teen’s education the RIGHT way so that you neither waste time nor money – Page 65
- How to gain highly-valued practical experience already as a teen even if they cannot get a job – Page 79
- Finally, land the dream job and turn that into a highly successful career – Page 123
- And much, much more…
And as a COMPLEMENTARY BONUS, you will receive THREE EBOOKS:
- ”Unleashing Your Potential”: A Teenager’s Guide to Developing a Growth Mindset and Opening Your Path to Success
- ”The Essential Summer Job Handbook”: The Teen’s Guide to a Fun and Profitable Summer
- ”Raising Teens With Confidence”: 10 Exclusive Blog Posts on Parenting Teens
Just imagine how your teenager will feel once they get the burden of not knowing what to do with their life off their shoulders, and how much less stressed and overwhelmed they’ll become.
So even if your teen has already made the wrong decision regarding their career, you can still fix it, get on the right track and start directing them toward their dream life with the help of Career Planning for Teens.
If you want your teen to make the RIGHT career choice and turn that into a success, scroll up and click the “Add to Cart” button to order your copy now!
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Securely Attached: Transform Your Attachment Patterns Into Loving, Lasting Romantic Relationships ( a Guided Journal)
So you’re an adult with an insecure attachment style. Now what? Create secure, healthy, and deeply satisfying relationships by transforming your old attachment patterns with more than 140 prompts in this evidence-based, practical guided journal. Therapists agree the way to address troubling attachment patterns as an adult is through reflection. Licensed therapist, attachment nerd, and viral TikTok star Eli Harwood is here to help you do just that. Together, you will come to understand and transform the patterns in your romantic life. Want to find out why you’re always running for the hills at the first sign of commitment or constantly spiraling with jealousy and anxiety? This journal is the answer. The research findings suggests that our attachment patterns are set in place as early as 10 months old―but the data of adult attachment comforts and assures that yes, everyone can change their attachment pattern. This workbook for romantically entangled (or romantically seeking) adults has: Prompts for reflecting on your current patterns of behavior in dating Research-based quizzes to help you delve into your patterns Space to write about your past and present insecure patterns in relationships Tips and tricks for your journey toward an earned secure attachmentRead more
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Inclusive Education for Autistic Children: Helping Children and Young People to Learn and Flourish in the Classroom
This book presents original, empirical research that reframes how educators should consider autism and educational inclusion. Rebecca Wood carefully unpicks common misapprehensions about autism and how autistic children learn, and reconsiders what inclusion can and should mean for autistic learners in school settings.
Drawing on research and interwoven with comments from autistic child and adult contributors throughout, the book argues that inclusion will only work if the ways in which autistic children think, learn, communicate and exhibit their understanding are valued and supported. Such an approach will benefit both the learner and the whole classroom. Considering topics such as the sensory environment, support, learning and cognition, school curriculums, communication and socialisation, this much needed book offers ideas and insight that reflect the practical side of day-to-day teaching and learning, and shows how thinking differently about autism and inclusion will equip teachers to effectively improve teaching conditions for the whole school.
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Flake
**WINNER OF THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION**
**A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR**
A stunning first graphic novel by a Cape/Comica/Observer graphic short story competition winner – a tale of a skirmish in the ice-cream wars that is worthy of Alan Bennett
In the small seaside town of Dobbiston, Howard sells ice creams from his van, just like his father before him. But when he notices a downturn in trade, he soon realises its cause: Tony Augustus, Howard’s half-brother, whose ice-cream empire is expanding all over the North-West…
Flake, Matthew Dooley’s debut graphic novel, tells of how this epic battle turns out, and how Howard – helped by the Dobbiston Mountain Rescue team – overcomes every obstacle and triumphs in the end.
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Making Marriage Work For Dummies
The inspiration for countless one-liners, witty sayings, stage farces and not a few murder mysteries, marriage is more than just a relationship between two people. It’s one of life’s biggest adventures and a healthy marriage can be one of life’s greatest gifts. But weathering the stresses and strains of married life and maintaining healthy marital bonds over a span of decades takes work, and sometimes you need help from a friendly expert. Which is where Making Marriage Work For Dummies comes in.Drawing on their experiences with thirty years of marriage, during which they raised three children, as well as decades of couples counseling, experts Steven and Sue Simring show you how to build a strong, happy and long-lasting marriage. They offer priceless tips on how to deal with most problems that come up between married couples, and they offer advice on how to:
- Make your relationship more romantic
- Work out big and small differences
- Argue in ways that strengthen you relationship
- Resolve disputes over money
- Cope with mid-life change
- Handle a spouse who cheats
- Deal with families and in-laws
- Reduce stress on your marriage
- Understand your partner’s annoying habits and quirks
- Balance career and family goals
- Seek professional help when you need it
Illustrating their points with insightful, often amusing anecdotes from their own marriage and from the marriages of hundreds of couples they’ve counseled over the years, the Simrings explore such crucial topics as:
- Deciding if marriage is right for you
- Six common marriage myths
- Understanding the roots of marital problems
- Communicating with your partner
- The do’s and don’ts of fair marital fighting
- Making marriage sexy
- Examining the marriage life cycle
- Ideas for resolving money differences
- Succeeding with remarriage
Filled with ideas you can use now to keep your marriage as strong as the day you took your vows, this is a survival guide for everyone committed to making marriage work.
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Relationships For Dummies
“Follow the advice of the top romance specialist, and you can’t go wrong.”
―Woman’s World“She’s interviewed with Oprah and Phil Donahue, Time, the New York Times, USA Today, the Washington Post, Redbook and Cosmopolitan. Clearly Dr. Kate engages in no false advertising―she’s a nationally acclaimed relationship expert.”
―Chicago TribuneLet’s face it, making a relationship work takes patience, perseverance, energy, and an unflagging commitment to maintain a happy healthy relationship. And sometimes, it takes a little help from a wise and knowledgeable friend.
Written by celebrated psychologist-matchmaker, Dr. Kate Wachs, Relationships For Dummies is a source of inspiration and ideas on how to find and keep a healthy relationship. Whether you’ve just started dating or have been together with that special someone for years, Dr. Kate can help you:
- Tell the difference between a healthy and an unhealthy relationship
- Have a more loving, fun-filled relationship
- Enjoy a more vibrant and satisfying sex life
- Work through most relationship problems
- Find the positive and the fun in every relationship stage
Dr. Kate explodes common relationships and compatibility myths that cause people grief, and with the help of insightful quizzes, case studies, and real-life America Online letters Dr. Kate covers all the bases, including:
- Finding that special someone and knowing if it’s really Mr. or Ms. Right
- Pacing and nurturing intimacy in the early stages of a relationship
- When, where, how, and with whom to have sex when dating
- Knowing when and if it’s time to move in together
- When and if to get married
- Keeping psychological and emotional intimacy alive
- Keeping physical and sexual intimacy alive
From compatibility to communication, commitment to connecting in the bedroom, Relationships For Dummies is your total guide to having the relationships you want and deserve.
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A Guide to Therapeutic Child Care: What You Need to Know to Create a Healing Home
A Guide to Therapeutic Child Care provides an easy to read explanation of the secrets that lie behind good quality therapeutic child care.
It describes relevant theories, the ‘invisible’ psychological challenges that children will often struggle with and how to develop a nurturing relationship and build trust. Combining advice with practical strategies, the book also provides specific guidance on how to create safe spaces (both physical and relational) and how to aid the development of key social or emotional skills for children which may be lacking as a result of early trauma.
Written with input from foster carers, the book is an ideal guide for residential child care workers, foster carers, kinship carers, social workers and new adoptive parents.
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Brain Gym: Bouger pour apprendre
Vous cherchez à aider votre enfant à améliorer ses capacités d’apprentissage ? Et si le corps était une clé ? L’approche Brain Gym est basée sur l’apprentissage par le mouvement et libère les tensions du corps. En effectuant certains mouvements, il est possible de stimuler nos compétences afin d’améliorer l’écoute, la lecture, l’écriture, la concentration, la logique des maths, l’organisation, la créativité et la confiance en soi. En faisant du Brain Gym, nous aidons nos neurones à travailler ! Un zoom sur le cerveau pour mieux comprendre son fonctionnement et accompagner votre enfant dans ses apprentissages. Des exercices ludiques et facilement réalisables afin de l’aider à atteindre ses objectifs. Des enchaînements de mouvements pour accroître les potentiels de votre enfant : l’écoute attentive, la créativité, la communication… Aidez votre enfant à se connaître, à prendre confiance en lui et à s’épanouir !Read more
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Baby Sign Language Flash Cards: A Deck of 50 American Sign Language (ASL) Cards
Babies learn fastest when sign language is included in a variety of daily routine and fun activities. Illustrated with clear, brightly coloured photographs, these flash cards are the perfect tool for signing about the fun things that babies get excited about, such as toys, animals and everyday objects. The deck consists mostly of nouns, since these are the concepts conveyed most effectively by a flash card.
This refreshed edition of Monta Briant’s Baby Sign Language Basics Flash Cards – a perfect companion to her book of the same name, also recently repackaged with new visuals – gives parents and caregivers a fun, easy-to-use tool for making sign language enjoyable and easy to learn.
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Reparenting the Child Who Hurts: A Guide to Healing Developmental Trauma and Attachments
Finally, a parenting book which demystifies the latest thinking on neurobiology, physiology and trauma and explains what the research means for the everyday life of parents of children who hurt.
As experts on adoption and fostering who are adoptive parents themselves, Caroline Archer and Christine Gordon explain how this knowledge can help parents to better understand and care for their child. They explain why conventional parenting techniques are often not helpful for the child who has experienced early trauma and explore why therapeutic reparenting is the only way to help repair the unhealthy neurobiological and behavioural patterns which affect the child’s development. They do not shy away from how difficult reparenting is, acknowledging how hard it can be to recognise our own fallibility as parents and to change our own parenting patterns. The authors also offer hard-won advice on a range of common parenting flashpoints – from defusing arguments and aggression to negotiating bedtimes and breaks in routine, and making sure that special occasions are remembered for all the right reasons.
Reparenting the Child Who Hurts is a humane, no-nonsense survival guide for any parent caring for a child with developmental trauma or attachment difficulties, and will also provide information and insights for social workers, teachers, counsellors and other professionals involved in supporting adoptive and foster families.
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The Montessori Child: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Capable Children with Creative Minds and Compassionate Hearts: 3 (The Parents’ Guide to Montessori)
From the bestselling authors of The Montessori Toddler and The Montessori Baby, The Montessori Child guides parents in using the principals of Montessori to raise their school-aged children in ways that assist their development and foster a respectful relationship between parent and child and world.
When children are given independence, the tools to succeed, and the encouragement to build on their abilities, it’s amazing what they can achieve. The newest book in the bestselling Montessori series is an everything-you-need-to-know guide to raising your school-aged child (from 3-12 years old, with a bonus chapter for the teen years) in the Montessori way. Educators Simone Davies and Junnifa Uzodike provide an in-depth, practical guide to incorporating Montessori principles into readers’ everyday lives, with advice on everything from setting up your home in ways that encourage curiosity and independence to supporting your child’s social and moral development with a balance of limit-setting and age-appropriate freedoms.The book includes dozens of hands-on activities to help foster your child’s love of numbers and literacy, art and science, and ones that encourage community-building, social awareness, and connection with the natural world. The Montessori Child offers a powerful alternative for parents who feel that family life has gotten too complicated by showing parents how to make more intentional choices for your family, how to better understand the needs of your children, and support them as they develop their unique potential.
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Tiny Dancer, Big World: 12 Simple Steps to Inspire You to Follow Your Dreams
Janette Manrara is the glamourous big sister we all need in our lives. In her first book – Tiny Dancer, BIG World (working title) – she shares a delightful blend of advice, inspirational stories and life lessons from her time on stage and screen.
Each chapter offers a tenet of wisdom alongside techniques of how to implement it, complete with actionable goals. The result is a highly readable, applicable, motivational narrative to inspire readers to live their best life. In addition Janette shares her own poignant stories, from her childhood in a large Cuban immigrant family in Florida and her decision to pursue a career in dance to her big break on So You Think You Can Dance and finally, Strictly Coming Dancing. Full of magic and glitter and joy, Tiny Dancer, BIG World is a fun and practical resource for learning to embrace self-love and ambition and be your best self in every aspect of your life.
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Life Story Books for Adopted and Fostered Children, Second Edition: A Family Friendly Approach
Through words, pictures, photographs, certificates and other ‘little treasures’, a Life Story Book provides a detailed account of the child’s early history and a chronology of their life.
Fully updated, this clear and concise book shows a unique family-friendly way to compile a Life Story Book which promotes a sense of permanency for the child, and encourages attachments within new families. Joy Rees’ influential model works chronologically backwards rather than forwards, aiming to reinforce the child’s sense of belonging and security before addressing the child’s past and early trauma. The book contains simple explanations of complex concepts, practical examples, helpful suggestions and includes some simple checklists. This new edition has been expanded to include fostered children and those living in kinship care or with a special guardian.
Perfect for social workers, adoption agencies, adoptive parents, foster carers and kinship carers, Life Story Books for Adopted and Fostered Children is a refreshing, innovative and common-sense guide.
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Beyond Coping Skills: The Ultimate Teens’ Workbook: Integrating CBT and DBT for Lasting Emotional Regulation and Personal Growth (Successful Parenting)
There are over 55,000 posts about #MentalHealth on TikTok, viewed by more than 188 million users. This shows that mental health awareness is becoming a hot topic for many young people.
With all of this content flooding the internet, it is becoming easier for teens to find peers who are faced with similar psychological issues. But more often than not, they are still left confused about how to respond to these challenges in positive ways.
What seems to be lacking isn’t education about stress or anxiety, but rather effective cognitive, emotional, and behavioral skills to confront obstacles head on. Above and beyond the guidance offered by friends, parents, and schoolteachers, teens can also benefit from learning how to improve their reactions to stressful situations.
Beyond Coping Skills: The Ultimate Teens’ Workbook is an easy-to-use self-directed therapy workbook that can help teenagers aged 13–19 practice core CBT and DBT skills from the comfort of their own bedrooms.
Yes, that’s right! In this digital age, where there is an app for virtually everything, and information is available at the touch of a button, therapy has become more affordable and accessible online!
Several studies have proven the success of both CBT and DBT in managing stress, regulating strong emotions, and modifying behaviors—and the best part is that the same skills taught in a counseling room can be practiced at home too!
Over the course of 5 chapters, 28 journal prompts, and 50 exercises, teens can look forward to learning:- The power of the pause when sensing triggers and managing impulsive urges.
- How to identify and detach from unwanted thoughts and emotions.
- Strategies on how to define, brainstorm, and implement solutions for everyday life problems.
- How to develop self-respect through boundary setting and positive conflict resolution.
The purpose of this workbook is to mentally prepare teens for unexpected and ongoing stressful situations they may face at home or at school. Through a powerful combination of CBT and DBT skills, they will be able to walk away with knowledge on how to reflect, reframe, and readjust their thoughts and emotions to achieve desired goals.
Show support for your child’s #MentalHealth by grabbing your copy of Beyond Coping Skills: The Ultimate Teens’ Workbook, today!Read more
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The Teens’ Workbook to Self Regulate: Empowering Teenagers to Handle Emotions with Success through Coping Strategies and CBT Exercises (Successful Parenting)
On the surface, you see a highly sensitive and irritable teenager. But look closer, and you will notice a kid showing signs of emotional distress.
Research shows that modern teenagers—our beloved Gen Zers—experience similar stress levels as adults. However, unlike adults who have been exposed to various coping mechanisms, young people are often confused about ways to cope with stress.
Now more than ever, parents are stepping up and teaching their teens how to psychologically equip themselves for modern challenges. After all, we can’t leave it up to school teachers or social media influencers to prepare our children for the world!
But as much as teens need the support, they desire to work through their problems, at their own pace, in their own time.
The combination of psychotherapy and self-directed learning is an effective way for teenagers to learn about healthy coping strategies, in their own time, in the comfort of their bedrooms.
Without any external pressure, teens are able to study and practice various mind and body techniques and create their own toolkits of useful skills to manage stress and anxiety.
The Teens’ Workbook to Self-Regulate is a valuable resource that introduces modern teenagers to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a form of psychotherapy created to develop emotional regulation and behavioral modification skills.
The workbook is broken down into two parts: cognitive techniques and behavioral techniques, and provides teens with exercises that reinforce the following skills:- Understanding the impact of negative thinking in shaping beliefs, motivations, and worldviews.
- Learning how to identify, describe, and manage strong emotions without hurting themselves or others.
- Finding healthy alternative strategies to cope with stress and anxiety without succumbing to urges.
- Knowing how and when to stop, breathe, and return to a normal state when feeling overwhelmed.
These skills—and many more—are taught over 42 age-appropriate exercises, which are designed to help teens between the ages of 13 and 19 reflect on their personal life experiences and examine their own thoughts and behaviors.
The workbook will not only serve as a companion for your child during stressful life events but will also help them prepare for future challenges that require mental and emotional resilience.
So, what are you still waiting for? Make an investment in your teen’s mental health, and get yourself a copy of The Teens’ Workbook to Self-Regulate, today!Read more
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101 Inclusive and SEN Science and Computing Lessons: Fun Activities and Lesson Plans for Children Aged 3 – 11 (101 Inclusive and SEN Lessons)
Create an inclusive classroom with these fun and accessible activities for science and computing lessons. Each lesson is tailored to objectives for children working below National Curriculum levels and includes a learning objective, the resources needed, the main activity, a plenary and a consolidation activity to support children’s understanding and engagement.
When working with children, and especially those with SEN, lessons need to meet their interests as well as their needs by containing visual stimulus and promoting fine and gross motor skills. The activities in this book have been specifically designed with this in mind. Straightforward and practical, it offers 101 creative classroom activities for teaching Science and Computing to pupils who are working below national curriculum levels, as well as mapping the range of additional skills they will acquire.
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The Bride’s Instruction Manual: How to Survive and Possibly Even Enjoy the Biggest Day of Your Life (Instruction Manual): How to Survive and Possibly … Manual): 8 (Owner’s and…
“The Bride’s Instruction Manual” trims away all the unnecessary frills and gets right down to business, offering the bride-to-be all the essential information she needs to know as she prepares for the Big Day. Author Carrie Denny, editor of Philadelphia’s “Elegant Weddings” magazine, gives brides a practical education in a lively, trustworthy voice, and the hilarious illustrations in the signature style of “Quirk’s Owner’s Manual” series set this book apart from others on the market. A handy appendix provides tear-out checklists, worksheets, and resource guides to keep you both on track and on budget.Read more
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101 Inclusive and SEN Maths Lessons: Fun Activities and Lesson Plans for Children Aged 3 – 11 (101 Inclusive and SEN Lessons)
Create an inclusive classroom for all through engaging maths activities such as Shape Bingo, Cake Splat! and Fruity Fractions, all of which have been matched to the UK National Curriculum P Levels 4 – 8. Tailored to the specific P Level, each lesson plan includes a learning objective, the resources needed, the main activity, a plenary and a consolidation activity to help support children’s understanding.
When working with children, and especially those with SEN, lessons need to meet their interests as well as their needs by containing visual stimulus, movement and fine and gross motor skills, and the activities in this book have been specifically designed with this in mind. This straightforward and practical book offers you 101 creative classroom activities for teaching maths to pupils who are achieving at P Levels 4 – 8 and Key Stage One as well as mapping the range of additional skills they will acquire.
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101 Inclusive and SEN English Lessons: Fun Activities and Lesson Plans for Children Aged 3 – 11 (101 Inclusive and SEN Lessons)
Create an inclusive classroom for all with this resource, full of ideas for engaging and accessible English lessons. Each lesson is tailored to objectives for children working below National Curriculum levels and includes a learning objective, the resources needed, the main activity, a plenary and a consolidation activity to help support children’s understanding.
When working with children, and especially those with SEN, lessons need to meet their interests as well as their needs by containing visual stimulus and promoting fine and gross motor skills, and the activities in this book have been specifically designed with this in mind. This straightforward and practical book offers you 101 creative classroom activities for teaching English to pupils who are achieving at P Levels 4 – 8, as well as mapping the range of additional skills they will acquire.
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The Emotional Literacy Toolkit for ADHD: Strategies for Better Emotional Regulation and Peer Relationships in Children and Teens
Challenges with emotional regulation and rejection sensitivity can disproportionately affect children and teens with ADHD, impacting on their development at school and their relationship with their peers.
Developed for children and young people who experience difficulties with emotional regulation, SEND specialist Sonia Ali, shares a mentoring Intervention programme to support a child or young person with this issue at school or at home. Covering concepts like the fight, flight or freeze response and the ‘Window of Tolerance’, managing anger outbursts and overwhelm or navigating conflict with peers, this easily digestible book will help educators and carers support children and teens to develop core emotional literacy skills in an enjoyable way!
This accessible, step-by-step guide is packed with activities, including role-play situations, discussion-based statements, quizzes and more. The programme can be followed sequentially or ‘dipped into’ to support a child with a particular issue when relevant.
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How to Be the Love You Seek: Million-copy bestselling author
‘I love Dr Nicole LePera. She helps me a lot.’ GWYNETH PALTROW
‘A practical and inspiring primer on how to extend true connection and love to others and to our hurting world.’ DR GABOR MATE´
‘A loving, patient, and powerful guide to creating happy, fulfilling life relationships of all kinds. How to Be the Love You Seek is a masterwork of awareness and compassion.’ JAY SHETTY
A radical new path to revolutionise your relationships
Why are our closest relationships so often a source of more stress than solace? Whether the relationship is with a romantic partner, a parent, child, friend or colleague, the dynamic is frequently the same – you’d like the relationship to change for the better, yet nothing you try seems to work.
Author of international bestseller How to Do the Work, Dr Nicole LePera has heard these frustrating patterns of loneliness, disconnection, and resentment described time and again, both from patients in her clinical practice and from her global online community @the.holistic.psychologist. In this groundbreaking book she offers a new path to healing our relationships by tapping into the power of the heart.
How to Be the Love You Seek harnesses the latest scientific research to teach us how to recognise our dysfunctional patterns, identify their roots in our earliest relationships, break painful cycles, build security and share compassion with ourselves and others.
Through stories, exercises, journal prompts, and other practical tools, Dr LePera empowers us first to strengthen our foundation of self-love, paving the way for deeper, more harmonious connections with those around us.
When you become the love you seek, you have the power to transform every relationship, from your most intimate partnerships to the bonds that hold our communities together.
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Supporting direct contact after adoption
A number of adopted children have direct contact with members of their birth family after adoption. But contact can be difficult to arrange and challenging for all those involved. This important research study outlines the first investigation of the government and council services established to support direct post-adoption contact. The study draws on the experiences of 51 adoptive parents, four long-term foster carers and 39 birth relatives, all of whom were involved in agency supported direct contact. Individual experiences of the challenges and benefits of direct contact are described, different models of contact are explored, and their costs, benefits and suitability described. Finally, the study sets out the implications for social work practice and what agencies can do to improve the contact experience. This study will be of particular interest to social workers and support workers in child and family teams, adoption and post-adoption support teams, legal professionals, child mental health professionals, adoption researchers and students.Read more
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Heal before you Deal
Are you hurting from a heartbreak, a traumatic experience or even an abuse and can’t seem to get past it? You are not alone.
Kingsley Okonkwo has counselled many individuals for more than two decades along these lines. He has helped them journey through their pains to recovery and he is offering you through this time-tested masterpiece the steps to your healing.
So, look no further, a healthy and whole you ready to love again beckons.Read more
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