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Providing compassionate, person-centred care for a person with dementia as they approach the end of life is a key issue in dementia care , and this book provides practical strategies to ensure physical and emotional wellbeing, guidance on ethical issues, useful examples for practice and solutions to possible obstacles.

How can our legal, health and social care systems achieve a more effective response to domestic violence? Based on new evidence, this book discusses the most effective ways to understand and tackle domestic abuse.

A comprehensive colour guide for practitioners working in women's health, offering a holistic plan of care for treating and managing patients with endometriosis and PCOS using acupuncture and TCM alongside Western medicine. Authored by two expert ABORM-certified Doctors of Oriental Medicine, and illustrated with rich case studies throughout.

This practical book covers the significance of the abdomen in East Asian medicine and looks at origins and development in the discipline of Kampo. It also provides an illustrated and comprehensive description of the practical application of abdominal palpation in clinical settings.

Exploring the ways in which grief, loss and trauma affect the individual chakras, this book is a tantric guide to working with energy and readdressing the balance of the whole. This is a compassionate approach to dealing with the darkest times of life, with over 100 creative and expressive exercises to help clients find harmony and balance.

Providing techniques to ensure a healthy immune system, this guide explains how to relieve the lymphatic system of stagnation through East Asian medicine. Linking Western science with Asian approaches to bodywork, this expert guide is essential reading for students and practitioners of all forms of East Asian medicine.

The updated and revised edition of the foundation text in Cranio-Sacral Therapy integrates a wide spectrum of approaches to provide a broad understanding of the discipline. It covers fundamental theory, practical skills and techniques, and gives instructions for treatments which are clearly explained in case studies and full colour illustrations.

Thoughtfully introducing the eight limbs of yoga and yoga's sister science, Ayurveda, these meditations are perfect for enhancing your yoga practice. Guided visualisations and reflections can be used at the beginning, end or during a class, and also during home practice, to increase awareness of the self and understanding of yoga practice.

Covering history, theory and above all the practice, Grand Master C S Tang guides the reader through the entire system of this subtle yet powerful martial art.

A guide that supports yoga therapists in creating a programme of care for those living with chronic pain, through bringing pain science, creativity and yoga together for the first time. It provides the skills and knowledge to create an environment that restores hope and meaning as well as practical guidance.

With expert advice from world-renowned yoga teachers, this book explains how to develop yoga teaching into a successful business. Covering everything from how to be creative with sequencing, to setting up and running a studio space, this book shows how to refine teaching skills and is an essential handbook for all yoga teachers and trainees.

Yoga is an increasingly popular way of treating the digestive issues which have become common in the western world, and now affect one in five people in the UK. By combining scientific evidence with traditional yogic practices, Charlotte Watts reveals how yoga can be used to alleviate digestive problems such as IBS, IBD and more.

By recognising the components of the therapeutic work that makes the HEARTS (Hands-on, Empathy, Aromas, Relaxation, Textures and Sounds) technique effective, this book promotes peace, calm and tranquillity in palliative care settings and bridges the gaps in the choices that can be offered to patients.

Written in the tradition of scholar-physician commentaries, this book examines how the wisdom of the classic Yellow Emperor writings can enrich modern practice in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Focusing on the Simple Questions that open the Inner Canon of Huangdi, it offers expert advice on how to achieve sophisticated diagnoses and treatments.

Arthritis limits physical mobility while also impacting energy and mental health. Focussing on mental practice and physical postures for a whole-person approach, this guide will support yoga teachers, therapists and health professionals in working with individuals to live differently with arthritis, as well as those individuals themselves.

Compact and concise information on how to determine health implications and life events using palmistry and Vedic wisdom.With a discussion of introductory level astrology and its integration with palmistry, no prior knowledge is required. An essential guide for anyone interested in Vedic wisdom, Ayurveda or yoga.

Helping professionals across disciplines who are grappling with supporting non-binary and transgender clients, this book sets out a unique advocacy-based model that draws upon queer theory and narrative therapy. Developed over the last 10 years with over 600 trans clients, this innovative and non-pathologizing framework privileges the lived experiences of transgender and gender expansive people, whilst honoring the WPATH Standards of Care. The framework also incorporates Feedback Informed Treatment (FIT) as a trans-affirmative approach to measure therapeutic outcomes. Beyond proving a therapy framework, this book will enhance therapists' knowledge of gender identity and issues related to gender identity transition in its many forms. In addition, it offers practical tools for clinicians to become more culturally responsive with transgender and non-binary clients.

The authors' years of experience working with students with autism have helped them develop nine effective cognitive and language strategies for enhancing their engagement and learning in the classroom. This book includes tips for using each strategy, plus reasons why they work, as well as sample goals for regulation and a 'cheat sheet' overview.

A practical guide to help readers work through their grief through expressive therapy in a positive, transformative way. The book encourages the reader to completely engage with their grief through storytelling, self-care and ritual, gently guiding the reader through the healing process in a way that best suits their own circumstances.

Drawing from a range of perspectives and settings, this edited collection provides different ways that restorative practice can be implemented in schools. This guide addresses issues such as poverty, trauma, implicit bias and family engagement to offer strategies that can really benefit schools' and restorative practitioners' work with children.

This extended edition offers a comprehensive understanding of music therapy practice for young children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and their families. Drawing on recent research and rigorous scientific evidence, it spans topics such as effective interventions, diagnostic criteria, managing sensory processing issues, inclusion and advocacy.

Learn how to use positive momentum to address common behavioral issues in the classroom and beyond. The strategies in this book show how to get long-term results, with illustrative case examples and downloadable resources for tracking progress. It also offers advice for working with children with special needs.

Learn how physical activities and therapeutic play can help reshape the brains and bodies of children traumatized by abuse and neglect. Focusing on interactive games that promote positive attachment, the book explores how rhythm and movement are vital to healthy child development, with examples and fun and easy-to-play games.

An accessible guide covering the experience of people with dementia within several different communities such as Irish, Caribbean, South Asian, Chinese and Jewish. It also explores in detail common issues experienced across BME communities such as cultural differences, human rights and spirituality.

A succinct and engaging guide to creating a unique wedding ceremony that reflects the couple's love and makes sense to their families and friends. Specific tools include questionnaires, checklists and a specially designed ritual toolbox for writing tailor-made texts and crafting secular wedding rituals.

Giving examples of how the proven Play Therapy Dimensions model can be applied in a range of clinical settings, this edited book demonstrates the benefits of it. Comprised of case studies and worked examples, fully supported by different theoretical models, this book will be of interest to play therapists and students alike.

This spirited edited collection explores theologies and practices of migration across Judaism, Christianity and Islam, with a view to increasing dialogue between theologians and practitioners from a variety of faith traditions.

Offers straightforward advice for managing common behaviours in children who are traumatized. Designed specifically for adoptive and foster parents, this guide includes visual reference charts of therapeutic parenting strategies and conversation scripts that can be used when caring for a traumatized child.

This is a how-to guide to implementing a program of restorative peer mediation in schools. Using a proven approach to conflict resolution, this manual trains students to solve conflicts in the schoolyard and classroom by understanding peacefulness and restoration. A must-have resource for schools wishing to foster a culture of restorative justice.

A much-needed contemporary guide for music therapy with young people at the end of life, focusing on how children can benefit from music therapy intervention. It also covers the benefits of therapy with family members and in care settings as a whole.