Surviving therapeutic parenting can almost be as easy as A,B,C with this popular A-Z style survival guide. Covering over 70 common issues and feelings, you can learn strategies to process your feelings and experiences as a therapeutic parent. Funny and warm, this survival guide is like a hug from another parent when you need it most.
Baffling behaviours can make any parent feel bewildered and drained. Why is my child doing this? Robyn Gobbel and neuroscience are here to help you understand and slowly reverse the neurological causes behind your childs baffling behaviour.
Strategies and Solutions to Help with Behaviour and Support for Children Aged 3-11
30 children, their families, diverse needs... so little time! This dip-in A-Z guide gives you a wide-range of strategies for a variety of behaviours. Guidance on strategies to avoid and resolving compassion fatigue enables you to give all children in your classroom the support they need with renewed optimism and strength.
The ideal starting point for understanding therapeutic parenting. This fully illustrated card pack uses straightforward language to explain this parenting style, covering over 40 different common issues. The perfect resource for parents, teachers and other adults, whether completely new to therapeutic parenting, or more experienced.
An Educator's Guide to Using Dyadic Developmental Practice
Experienced clinicians show how educators can easily use a proven psychological model to help pupils who have experienced relational trauma. Contains everything required to embed it into teaching practice, including building connections with students and teachers, exploration of the theory, and practical applications.
Jessie tells us her story of being placed in foster care and the worries she had. The new home is not like her old home, but she begins to see that this different home is kind of nice. Sensitively written and fully illustrated in color, this story will help children in foster care to settle in and answer some of the questions they may have.
This resource offers guidance and assessment tools for professionals supporting therapeutic families. It will inform assessments and interventions, improve relationships between supporting professionals and parents, support family stability, ensure developmental needs are met and reduce the risk of burnout and family breakdown.
A Guide to Working with Diversity and Developing Cultural Sensitivity
Award-winning social worker and diversity trainer Vivian Okeze-Tirado has developed the perfect tool to increase and develop your cultural competence. With practical, easy-to-implement steps for a wide range of professions, you can take active steps.
Ordinary Joe had a not so Ordinary Day. There was a baboon, a carrot, some superheroes and some science too. Read Ordinary Joe's story to understand the strange and curious thing that is Trauma to understand your own experiences, body, and even friends better too.
The Simple Guide to Emotional Neglect provides you with a concise explanation of the impact of emotional neglect in childhood. Easy to read and digest, it is a trusted introduction for any parent, carer or child welfare professional supporting children or adults affected by emotional neglect.
A Guide to Help You Explore Feelings and Overcome Emotional Challenges i
Dealing with the Seven Core Issues of Adoption and Permanency has never been easier than with this Seven Core Issues workbook for parents. Based on the framework of the highly popular Seven Core Issues US model, this workbook will help parents, and their families identify and resolve their core issues and bring about healing.
Self-help journal providing support and information for people who have experienced trauma or attachment challenges. With interactive chapters on attachment, emotions, school, resilience and more.
A Story with Tips and Tricks for Tough Transitions
Making it to school is tough at the best of times. In the aftermath of stress or trauma, it might feel impossible! Riley Bear and his elephant parents share a peek into a tough morning. When big feelings threaten to ruin the day, this brightly illustrated story will help families find their way through. Features educational afterword for adults.
Transform your use of Theraplay (R) in combination with other modalities to address your clients individual needs. From advice for working with special populations to synchronising Theraplay (R) with other therapeutic models, this guide will help you to develop innovative practice informed by the latest research.
Sensory and emotional challenges can make it tough to have fun - even at exciting places like the fair. All of the smells, sounds, and sights can just be too much! When sensory overload threatens to ruin the day, this brightly illustrated story will help families find their way through. Features an educational afterword for adults.
Teacher-Friendly Mental Health Strategies to Help You and Your Students
This guide is full of guidance and activities to support traumatized children in the classroom. It tackles the challenge of mental health in the classroom and shows how teachers can create healthy and trusting relationships with their students. It also describes how to develop a positive classroom climate by building awareness of mental health ......
Trauma and attachment are commonly used terms, but are complex concepts. 'Trauma' refers to negative experiences that cause us to fear for our safety, whilst 'attachment' describes meaningful relationships with someone we love or respect. Why, then, is so much of the language surrounding these concepts so obscure, and why is it so challenging to ......
How Mariana Overcame Loneliness and Shame and Learned to Sing Her Own So
Abandoned on the ocean floor, Mariana the Mermaid feels useless as she can't swim or join in with the other mermaids. Muriel the Turtle helps her find self-confidence through singing her own mighty song. This therapeutic picture book is for children aged 4-9 who lack self-confidence, including children who have had difficult life experiences.
Music therapy is a valuable method of support and treatment for those dealing with trauma within the adoption community. Music Therapy in Adoption and Trauma offers a timely and much-needed perspective for music and creative arts therapists, as well as families themselves.
A structured resource with activities and exercises to help children and teens explore their feelings and strengthen healing after trauma. The book follows the pioneering Seven Core Issues model, which addresses loss, rejection, shame/guilt, grief, identity, intimacy and mastery and control.
A guide to parent participation in Non-violent Resistance (NVR) for pare
This book complements the Pavilion training pack designed for parent participation training in Non-violent Resistance, by making the model, its practice and powerful parent stories available to professionals, parents, foster carers and others who are supporting children and adolescents in a range of settings.
Revelations from Adoptees, Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents, and Allies
Adoption is a multi-sided experience that can feel like it takes place in a vacuum. Here, three participants in the adoption triad reveal the challenges, the triumphs, and everything in between from their perspectives of adopted, adopter, and birth parent, and those of others who have experienced adoption from a variety of perspectives and roles.
A narrative, in graphic novel format, following Cristina Duran and Miguel Angel Giner Bou as they rebuild and reinvent themselves after their daughter Laia is born with cerebral palsy. Their story continues through the arduous process of adopting their second daughter, Selam, from Ethiopia.
How Rescuing a "Throwaway" Child Turned Me into a Foster-Care Advocate
When child advocate Keri Vellis began fostering two severely abused and traumatized siblings, her role expanded beyond caregiving. She became their voice within an often inconsistent and patchwork system. Her memoir presents a vision of what could be and underscores the urgent need to reform the way society's forgotten children are cared for.
Stories from the Frontlines of Foster Care and Adoption
Foster care and adoption can be rewarding ways to become parents. But the system itself seems almost rigged for failure, confusion, fraud, and disappointment. This book takes readers on an insider's tour of the system, its successes and failures, and the joys adoption can bring through the real stories of those involved on all sides.
Provides foundational knowledge on how to provide current, evidence-based, clinical best practices for the specific needs of adoption and kinship families. The material in this book is well researched, sensitively delivered, and essential for any clinician for adoption and kinship families.
Increasing Child Well-Being through Practice, Policy, and Research
Provides a systematic and theory-informed approach to preparing caregivers for the vital role they play in the lives of abused and neglected children. It presents a relationship-building approach that can be used to better achieve the three major child welfare goals: protection; permanency; and well-being.
"If you are in a bad mood, dance." - Tony, owner of the Big Baboon Cafe and Disco We've all boiled and fumed and raged and screeched and roared and stamped and thumped. We've all had mean words spray out of our mouths. Welcome to planet human! Join Ordinary Jo and friends, who are here to guide you through the strange and curious world of anger. ......
Over 200 Quick and Simple Ways to Build Relationships and Open Conversat
This indispensable guide has over 200 simple, easy to implement therapeutic parenting activities which you can easily build into everyday life. Starting with a simple explanation of therapeutic parenting and how to do it, this book provides a host of strategies and activities to help tackle common challenges faced by families affected by trauma, ......
Race plays a pivotal role in the experiences of children in the child welfare system. This book offers mental health professionals insights and recommendations for supporting children of color in the child welfare system.
How Korean adoptees went from being adoptable orphans to deportable immigrants Since the early 1950s, over 125,000 Korean children have been adopted in the United States, primarily by white families. Korean adoptees figure in twenty-five percent of US transnational adoptions and are the largest group of transracial adoptees currently in ......
How Korean adoptees went from being adoptable orphans to deportable immigrants Since the early 1950s, over 125,000 Korean children have been adopted in the United States, primarily by white families. Korean adoptees figure in twenty-five percent of US transnational adoptions and are the largest group of transracial adoptees currently in ......
"An insider's look at a powerful social movement that aims to transform how we think about frozen human embryos, reproductive politics, and the future of the nation"--
"An insider's look at a powerful social movement that aims to transform how we think about frozen human embryos, reproductive politics, and the future of the nation"--
