Terry Bianchini is a personal advisor working in and around Her Majesty's Prison Service. He is responsible for offering advice and guidance to young offenders between the ages of 16 and 21 in the Oxfordshire area.
Workshops for Siblings of Children with Special Needs
Presents a guidebook for organizing and conducting workshops for siblings of children with a variety of special needs. These workshops provide children and young adults with social and emotional support from their peers in a recreational and fun atmosphere. This edition includes a chapter on Sibshops Standards of Practice.
Operations Management and Marketing for Assisted Living, Congregate and Continuing Care Retirement Communities 2ed
The demand for residential communities for seniors rises as the U.S. population continues to age. This growth means that new administrators and staff members often are learning by trial and error the complicated task of delivering high-quality and consistent services to elderly persons. While many new facilities have been successful, others have ......
Operations Management and Marketing for Assisted Living, Congregate, and Continuing Care Retirement Communities 2ed
The demand for residential communities for seniors rises as the U.S. population continues to age. This growth means that new administrators and staff members often are learning by trial and error the complicated task of delivering high-quality and consistent services to elderly persons. While many new facilities have been successful, others have ......
This book shows how carefully planned and assessed treatment can help traumatized children. It outlines how to set up a process for measuring a child's progress towards recovery. Uniquely, the book describes a practical outcomes-based approach that can be provided by an integrated multi-disciplinary team.Particular themes addressed include the ......
Supporting Children and Families gathers together the lessons learned from perhaps the largest scale social experiment ever undertaken in England - Sure Start, the programme deigned to improve the emotional development, health and education of children.It boils down the huge amount of knowledge and experience generated by the Sure Start programmes ......
Within mainstream counselling and psychotherapy there is growing interest in the spiritual dimension of counselling. Prayer is at the centre of most spirituality and prayer is important to many people's psychological well-being.Peter Madsen Gubi argues that philosophically, all counselling can be regarded as prayer, particularly when working at ......
Parents with a learning disability face a high risk of losing their children, and current support for them is inadequate. This book, based on original research, looks into current social care practice and the support systems available to parents with learning disabilities, evaluating their effectiveness and examining their impact on the families ......
A Survivor-centered Approach to Advocacy, Mental Health, and Justice
Presents a multidisciplinary look at society's responses to domestic violence. Though substantial reforms have been made in the services available to battered women since the 1970s, this book shows how the public and private systems available to victims of domestic violence are still failing to meet the needs of the women who seek help.
