Jessica Kingsley Publishers was founded in 1987 in London by Jessica Kingsley and is committed to publishing books that make a difference. In 2004 we opened our US office in Philadelphia and in 2017 we became part of the John Murray Press division of Hachette Group.
We publish books for professionals and general readers in a range of subjects. We are well known for our long established lists on the autism spectrum, social work, and arts therapies. More recently we have published extensively in the fields of mental health, counselling, palliative care, practical theology and gender diversity. We have a range of graphic novels across these subject areas, and books for children, on issues including bereavement, depression and anger.
Arising from concerns about children who are underachieving or presenting behavioural difficulties, this book outlines a number of useful approaches for teachers and others to use with individuals, small groups and classes.The book adapts and interprets an art therapy approach which can be used by non-art therapists as well as those practising in ......
In this volume, which updates and replaces ''Day Services for People with Mental Handicaps'', ''Day Services for People with Severe Handicaps'' and ''Towards Independent Living'', case studies are presented to illustrate the functioning of community care to provide services for people with learning difficulties and/or disabilities and with ......
Bob Myers has, since 1979, been Director of the Brophy Memorial Hostel, where he works with young people who are either homeless or unable to live at home. Some have been severely emotionally damaged and present very challenging behaviours. Bob has adopted the radical approach that solutions to these difficult behaviours have to be found, without ......
Anna Chesner, MA is a UKCP registered psychodrama and group analytic psychotherapist and has been qualified as a supervisor for over twenty years. She has trained dramatherapists, integrative counsellors and psychotherapists and is course director of the London Centre for Psychodrama Group and Individual Psychotherapy Training in Creative ......
Providing a complete guide to good practice for those involved in risk assessment and management, this book is the first to bring together the key issues involved, and examine them in the context of wide range of social care settings. Using examples of practice with different client groups, the book addresses such questions as: how is risk defined ......
Explores the ideas and principles behind using imagery in work with clients to help them resolve some of their inner conflicts. The author works from the belief that, by the appropriate use of imagery, we may find a way of cutting through the emotional tangle which often traps people in their past. Case studies highlight the various principles, ......
Care professionals constantly confront the problem of balancing the need to obtain optimal satisfaction of users' needs without regard for their means, with the concerns of managers and policy makers to measure and regulate costs. Drawing on current research, this book assesses the issues and problems arising as social work and services ......
Roger Grainger shows how drama therapy itself is an effective treatment for depression and schizophrenia, having a measurable effect on thought disorder. He looks at the specific relationship between rational thought and artistic experience which allows the second to act as the mediator of the first. The book is in two parts, and examines the ......
This book brings together and reviews the findings of research into short-term care services for a range of user groups. It examines the importance of providing a positive experience for the individual, as well as providing a break for the carer. Moving from an overview of principles, policy and practice in short-term care to a discussion of ......
