Is medication the right choice for treating your child's emotional or behavioral problems? How can you be confident that he or she has been properly diagnosed? What do you need to know to get the most benefits from medication treatment, with the least risk? From leading child psychiatrists Timothy Wilens and Paul Hammerness, this book has already ......
Assessing risk is a key challenge in child protection work. Martin C. Calder presents a clear and accessible guide to understanding risk and the part it plays. This book considers what risk means and how risk assessments should be defined, it outlines the key challenges practitioners face day-to-day, and offers a helpful evidence-based assessment ......
A Developmental Approach Understand and Help Children of Violent Divorce
Brings together research and clinical experience to examine the immediate and longer-term effects of high-conflict divorce on children. This title traces the developmental problems affecting very young children through adolescence, with attention paid to the impact of family violence and the dynamics of parental alienation.
Tool for Identifying and Supporting Emotional and Social Difficulties
For preschool children with emotional difficulties arising from difficulties in attachment, standard observations used in early years settings are not always helpful in identifying their problems and providing guidance on how they can be helped.Combining an accessible introduction to attachment and child development with a child observation tool ......
Meet Emily. She is being bullied by a group of children at school. She describes how this makes her feel, think and act. Eventually, she finds ways to help herself and also realises that she can get help from other people - both adults and other children.
As well as the perspective of the child being bullied, this guide for ......
Games and Resources for Detached, Outreach and Street-Based Youth Work
101 Things to Do on the Street is packed with creative and innovative ideas for street games and activities to help young people aged 11--19 explore personal, social and emotional issues.Specifically designed so that few resources or props are needed, the activities included are all practical, easy to follow, and above all, fun. As well as helping ......
This Child Progress Record was developed for use in conjunction with the AEPS(R) for children birth to 3 years to monitor individual children's progress over time.
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 ......
