This guide offers a programme to encourage language acquisition, and teach the child to use appropriate language and…

Based on research conducted by the adoption support agency PAC-UK, this guide will show school leaders how to develop their…

Providing much needed understandings of cultural differences in attitudes and beliefs towards issues such as illness, death…

This comprehensive book explores theories and practice of play. It suggests that media influences have a profound effect on…

Ditty Dokter is joined by contributors from a number of multicultural backgrounds, in a volume examining the issues…

This book sets out the theory and outlines a model for implementing the teaching of thinking at whole-school, group and…

Chesner's book explores dramatherapy as perhaps the most wide-ranging of all art forms, incorporating as it does elements of…

An increasing number of families are becoming homeless, often as a result of domestic violence, which leaves women and their…

This useful handbook provides educators with a practical understanding of the laws that are in place to protect the children…

More than 125,000 children in the UK alone are 'sentenced' to separation from their imprisoned parents. This book draws on…

Comprehensive and fully updated, this is the classic companion to practice learning in social work and social care…

Engaging with Fathers is written for the busy professional and avoids jargon. Each chapter contains summaries of the main…

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the theory, principles and practice of social pedagogy and the profession of…

For practitioners working with issues surrounding gender identity, this book provides the additional tools and insights…

Based on extensive studies into child welfare services, this important book brings together research into what works in…

In this book, Kim Etherington uses a range of narratives to show the reader how reflexive research works in practice,…

This is a book about an analytical approach within art therapy, which may be of interest in itself. The material also raises…

This book explains neuroscience discoveries in accessible, plain English and provides guidance on how to apply this…

Drawing on the author's work with young asylum seekers and refugees, this book explores how literature can be used to help…

This book paints a picture of life in group homes today. The authors propose a framework for increasing community presence…

The author argues that although western culture has traditionally understood suicide to be the choice of the individual,…

In this practical handbook Hopkins presents a whole school approach to repairing harm using a variety of means including…

Understand how to recognise the various influences on BaZi (Chinese Astrology) and learn how to devise personalised…

The authors discuss participative approaches to research and provide an up-to-date account of inclusive practice with…

In this innovative book Fabio Folgheraiter presents a systematic introduction to networking and reflexive practice in social…

This book is an exploration and critique of 'playback theatre', a form of improvised theatre in which a company of…

A comprehensive introduction to working with people with learning disabilities, this guide provides the theoretical…

Highlighting the importance of a 'safe place' as the foundation of the healing process for those affected by child sexual…

This book examines the potential of creative writing as a therapeutic tool. Illustrating a wide range of approaches, the…

Focusing on the interaction between supervisor and supervisee in the agency context, this book explores the interdependence…

This study examines the underlying theatrical underpinning of dramatherapy, which is firmly based on an understanding of…

This accessible guide to near-death experience (NDE) provides an overview of the nature of the phenomenon and the theory and…

Dr Stefano Marcelli sets out the theory of The Active Points Test, providing a comprehensive and effective system for point…

The book is a stimulating and inspiring collection which explores the often contentious themes of race, racism and culture…

This book contains myths and tales from all over the world which are grouped around seven themes. The authors suggest ways…

In this critique and extension of the work of S.H.Foulkes, Farhad Dalal presents a thorough contemporary appraisal of the…

This book describes how an awareness of culture must be applied to the study and provision of welfare in Europe. It shows…

This is a training package designed for delivery to all professionals supporting young people who are in public care. Based…

Developments in Social Work with Offenders explains the organisational and legislative changes that have occurred in social…

Drawing on literature from philosophy, anthropology, psychology and musicology, Boyce-Tillman looks at musical traditions…

A guide for charities and private sector organisations in health and social care on how to become a person-centred…

Now in its completely updated second edition, this accessible guide provides essential information about how the law can be…

This edited book presents the applications, theory and research behind Video Enhanced Reflection Practice, a professional…

This book is a fascinating exploration of how deaf people place themselves in the contexts of both family and community, and…

It explores the psychodynamic theory of attachment and how it can be used to offer new ways of thinking when working with…

This book identifies and analyses differences between the four UK nations in the way child protection systems are being…

Psychodynamic Perspectives on Abuse brings together psychoanalytic psychotherapists, political theorists, organisational…

Taking a dialectical approach to developmental psychology, the author develops a personality model and shows how it can be…