Böcker utgivna av Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Is something that happened to you weighing you down? If so, this picture book for adults is the pick-me-up you need. With Richy K. Chandler's artistic flair, warmth and humour, it shows how to face the past and embrace the future, providing pragmatic advice about how to get back on your feet.

Examining the ways that the body, trauma and emotional issues, and lifestyle can impact sleep, this book shows how to apply yoga holistically to tackle insomnia. Learn how to reset the delicate body-mind balance by moving through the koshas. This approach will put clients on the path to good quality sleep, with increasing effect over time.

The first guide to provide effective art therapy interventions for use with transgender and gender-expansive children and teenagers. It provides a base for family therapy, and helps young people express emotions surrounding gender identity and develop self-care. Includes cutting-edge art therapy interventions and case studies.

When a parent is in jail, children need extra support to ensure positive emotional wellbeing and social and academic development. This reassuring book provides tips and activities for helping children understand what is happening to their parent, feel safe and loved, and manage their feelings. Ideal for use with children aged 6-11.

An invaluable companion for the whole family, this book helps children to adjust when a parent comes home from jail. It shows children how their parent's homecoming might affect everyone in the family, and provides tips and activities to help them build new family bonds. Ideal for use with children aged 6-11.

This guide provides clergy and chaplains with essential tools for supporting senior adults, helping them to feel comfortable about death and dying before they begin to approach life's end. Focusing on strengthening relationships with loved ones, it applies unique therapeutic methods for promoting a positive experience of ageing.

What's the difference between being kind and being compassionate? How can we become more compassionate? And why can being compassionate be so difficult? Learn, along with Sam, answers to these and many other questions about this important character value.

Learn how to use Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) in recovery from anorexia. Combining a first-hand account of how EFT helped the author in her recovery with expert professional advice on how to carry out this approach, this book shows how to achieve complete long-term recovery from anorexia.

Empowering readers to approach children with autism with greater flexibility and understanding, this collection of inspiring narratives shows the positive impact creative therapy has on characteristics of autism. The child-centred, multi-creative approach displays an exciting array of beneficial therapies such as dance, music and meditation.

This accessible guide provides a direct response to the expressed learning needs of hospice and palliative care volunteers in relation to listening skills in end-of-life care. With original research findings, this book is the perfect guide for those wanting to expand their capacity for listening.

Molly starts to worry when she realises that she doesn't look like her other animal friends, but soon recognises her own unique qualities as she helps out with a series of tasks that no one else can do. With the help of her friends, Molly learns that everyone is special in their own way. Part of the Truth and Tails Series for children ages 4-8.

Exploring a topic that is frequently brought up, this book helps parents to tell their children about their autism diagnosis. It equips parents with a language of positivity and prepares them to support their children's relationships with peers and family members.

This new book from Bill Nason addresses the emotional world of autism. Anxiety, meltdowns and emotional regulation are covered, as are effective emotional regulation strategies. Presented in an easy-to-read, accessible format the book greatly expands on material posted to the popular online Autism Discussion Page.

Including key information on different types of dementia, this concise pocket-sized book lets you know about the symptoms to look out for, guides you through the diagnosis process and explains the treatments available. Like having a GP in your pocket, it also offers expert advice for living day-to-day with dementia, and where to go to get support.

Maya invites readers to learn with her what gratitude really means. Why should we be grateful, and who to? Why is it important to develop our own sense of genuine gratitude? This is the perfect guide to help children to think about and develop their own ability to understand gratitude.

Provides insight in to the causes, impact and treatments available for body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) for teens and young people. This guide increases awareness of BDD and the personal stories included from teens offer support for readers with the disorder. An invaluable guide to an under-discussed issue.

This accessible guide provides professionals with the tools to use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) productively with trans clients, helping them develop emotional processing skills they can implement throughout their life.

An anthology of powerfully honest and intimate letters written by trans and non-binary survivors of sexual violence, offering support and guidance to fellow survivors with additional resources for allies and professionals.

Music therapy professionals cater to a diverse population, in terms of heritage, ethnicity, age, location, and identity. This book provides the knowledge, skills, and cultural sensitivities music therapists need to practice culturally informed music therapy. Included are case studies and practical music examples that promote cultural awareness.

This book addresses research and theory on creative art therapies and the LGBTQ society, and offers illustrations of practical applications including self-studies, case studies and explorations of large group projects.

This major and original research project shows how restorative justice dialogue works, and highlights the role of forgiveness within it. Based on interviews of victims who went through Victim Offender Dialogue, it looks at how energy shifts in dialogue between offender and victim can lessen the toxicity associated with the crime.

The book presents approaches to nurturing communicative abilities in people with a communication impairment. It looks at a range of approaches, including intensive interaction, co-creative communication, sensory integration and music therapy, for people with a wide range of impairments including autism and dementia.

This book describes the Moulster and Griffiths nursing model and demonstrates how learning disability nurses can use it in practice. It provides an effective framework to assess, plan, reflect on and evaluate person-centred care, considering the complex needs of people who have learning disabilities, their families and their carers.

This practical handbook details how schools on a shoestring budget can work within school systems to embed mental wellbeing at the heart of a school's philosophy. It includes practical advice for setting up robust mental health support at school and lesson plans for addressing concerns such as stress, self-harm and body image.

This book explores the history, development, design and practicalities of multifaith spaces. From early shared religious buildings to shared spaces of modern secular locations, the book looks at the architectural, theological, social, legal and practical complexities that arise from the development and use of such spaces.

School dogs are becoming increasingly popular in both special and mainstream settings, but there is very little information on how to get started. Full of fun anecdotes and insights from when Highfurlong School welcomed their new school dog, Doodles, this book shows the range of benefits a dog can have for all pupils.

A scholarly yet practical account for modern clinicians of some of the key difficult questions arising from obscure passages in the classics of Chinese medicine. This book offers an interpretation of crucial sections from the classical Chinese texts which have continued to puzzle Western clinicians, and serves as a basis for more effective acupuncture treatments. The author discusses Sasang medicine interpretations of specific phenomena, showing where Korean medicine diverged from Chinese, and how the two traditions can inform each other, and the modern acupuncturist. Elsewhere, he discusses the Daoist roots of Chinese medicine, the fundamental differences between Oriental and Western medical approaches, as well as various important issues in pulse diagnosis, all of which have practical application for modern clinicians and students.

Raising awareness and understanding of autism has school-wide benefits, such as helping to improve the attitudes of pupils and staff and allowing children with autism to thrive socially, emotionally and educationally alongside their peers. This comprehensive resource provides a whole school programme for raising autism awareness and promoting inclusion.It includes training for staff in the knowledge and skills they need to support pupils, a sample school assembly, and lesson plans for teaching groups of pupils to be 'autism champions'. This programme also offers photocopiable worksheets and online presentations to use as part of the staff training, school assembly and peer awareness lessons. There is advice for involving children with autism and their parents in school activities. Easily adaptable for different age groups, this is a ready-made resource for schools committed to promoting autism awareness and whole school welfare.

Highly sensitive people tend to be natural and popular caretakers, though this practice can be over-stimulating and draining for them. This book offers effective strategies and tools for sensitive people to hone their care-taking strengths in a balanced and sustainable way.

In this collection, the first of its kind, prominent scholars explore the intersections of research on moral injury in contexts of war and violence and how scriptures of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and American civil religion depict and address moral injury.