Positive, empathic approaches to manage behaviours that challenge
Unravel the complexities of effectively managing behaviours that challenge through the 6-stage Target model. The 6 stages offer an empowering tool kit that builds upon positive skills and abilities when working with individuals under some form of supervision or care. This includes children in home, care or school environments, and adults that need ......
A Unique Framework for Supporting People with Intellectual Disabilities
This handbook promotes a perspective shift within learning disability services that aims to move the focus of professional support away from diagnosis and identifying what someone cannot do, towards assessing and supporting strengths and providing opportunities and resources to enhance people's quality of life. Designed to be used both by ......
How Caring Relationships Can Support Individuals with Enduring Distress
Some individuals with intellectual disabilities experience pervasive patterns of feeling and thinking that affect the way in which they relate to others and understand themselves - sometimes so overwhelmingly that they find it difficult to navigate the daily challenges of life.
Identifying, Understanding and Supporting Diverse Autistic Identities
A professionals' guide to understanding and better identifying diverse autistic presentations, with chapters covering autistic diagnosis in BAME communities, misdiagnosis and the criminal justice system, the issue of misidentifying fabricated or induced illness, and the controversial and overlapping diagnoses of PDA, ODD, ASPD and BPD.
Collected in a single volume for the first time, the writings in this novel anthology represent more than four decades of perspectives from the American Psychiatric Associations Solomon Carter Fuller Award lectures, named for the first Black psychiatrist in the United States.
Understanding Early Trauma, Mind Programming and Installed Dissociative Identity Disorder
Joining expert knowledge about trauma, dissociation & ritual abuse from both lived experience & the perspective of a therapist, this book is designed to help people living with a dissociative disorder as well as carers supporting them & helping to aid their recovery.
A Complete Resource for Developing Person-Centred Skills and Approaches
The Dementia Care Training Library offers distinctive, contemporary and expandable training materials on dementia specific topics relating to the learning needs of staff in care environments. The Starter Pack provides the library's binder, along with core content on the lived experience of dementia and dealing with challenging behaviour.
The Dementia Care Training Library is a unique modular suite of person-centred, dementia-specific content designed to provide everything required for professionals working in relevant care services to deliver authoritative in-house training.
The Dementia Care Training Library is a unique modular suite of person-centred, dementia-specific content designed to provide everything required for professionals working in relevant care services to deliver authoritative in-house training.
The Dementia Care Training Library is a suite of training materials on topics relating to the specific learning needs of staff in dementia care environments. Module 6 explores how understanding the ways in which physical and social environments affect the wellbeing of people with dementia can enable more respectful, person-centred care.
The Dementia Care Training Library is a suite of training materials on topics relating to the specific learning needs of staff in dementia care environments. Module 5 looks at why maintaining good physical, mental and oral health through food, drink and healthy living activities should be part of every person-centred support package.
In her influential and successful book The Anger Box, expert practitioner Phoebe Caldwell shifted attention away from the surface symptoms of autism and towards understanding sensory experiences and alleviating the distress associated with them.
A comprehensive guide from personal and professional perspectives
This book offers a comprehensive, contemporary and practical guide to understanding and helping people with eating difficulties to live and thrive in their communities. Written by people with eating disorders, their families and leading researchers, clinicians and therapists, it explores healthcare and support services.
A Handbook for Health and Social Care Professionals, Service Users and C
A ground-breaking handbook exploring the nature of spirituality and its relevance to the mental health and well-being of people coming into contact with health, social care, education, and allied support services.
A Comprehensive Assessment for Dementia in People with Down Syndrome and Others with Intellectual Disabilities (2nd edition)
Diagnosis of prodromal Alzheimer's disease and AD dementia in people with Down's Syndrome is a major challenge. The comprehensive Cambridge Examination for Mental Disorders of Older People with DS and Others with Intellectual Disabilities (CAMDEX-DS) has been validated for diagnosing prodromal AD and AD dementia.
A Comprehensive Assessment for Dementia in People with Down Syndrome and Others with Intellectual Disabilities (2nd edition)
Diagnosis of prodromal Alzheimer's disease and AD dementia in people with Down's Syndrome is a major challenge. The comprehensive Cambridge Examination for Mental Disorders of Older People with DS and Others with Intellectual Disabilities (CAMDEX-DS) has been validated for diagnosing prodromal AD and AD dementia.
A Comprehensive Assessment for Dementia in People with Down Syndrome and Others with Intellectual Disabilities (2nd edition)
Diagnosis of prodromal Alzheimer's disease and AD dementia in people with Down's Syndrome is a major challenge. The comprehensive Cambridge Examination for Mental Disorders of Older People with DS and Others with Intellectual Disabilities (CAMDEX-DS) has been validated for diagnosing prodromal AD and AD dementia.
A Comprehensive Assessment for Dementia in People with Down Syndrome and Others with Intellectual Disabilities (2nd edition)
Diagnosis of prodromal Alzheimer's disease and AD dementia in people with Down's Syndrome is a major challenge. The comprehensive Cambridge Examination for Mental Disorders of Older People with DS and Others with Intellectual Disabilities (CAMDEX-DS) has been validated for diagnosing prodromal AD and AD dementia.