Social Welfare & Social Services

In Deutschland leben etwa 90.000 Kinder und Jugendliche in Pflegefamilien. Viele dieser Kinder und Jugendlichen weisen psychische Störungen, erhebl...

This book will help social workers and practitioners to find achievable solutions to support autistic people - including those with complex needs -...

What does it mean to grow old? What makes later life meaningful? What gives a frail and isolated or institutionalised older person their sense of w...

Helping vulnerable children and young people to build protective behaviours is the key to keeping them safe.Full of creative ideas and activities, ...

Relationships and communication are the foundation of good social work practice. This book offers a new model, drawn from research and practical ex...

Bringing together the latest research and theory about a child's inner world and the impact of the world around them, this is a guide to understand...

Katie Careful has just moved in with her siblings and their new parents. Even if she's sad or scared, she smiles and smiles to try and hide her wob...

Assessing prospective adoptive parents, foster carers, kinship carers and special guardians is an extremely complex task, and one that happens with...

Foundations for Attachment Training Resource is a six-session programme to help parents and carers to nurture attachments with their child. It is d...

How can we help heal children who have been abused or neglected? Healing Child Trauma Through Restorative Parenting details how children can be hel...

The scale of the Rotherham child protection scandal has led professionals responsible for safeguarding children in other regions to recognise the e...

Help children to stay on top of big feelings like anger, sadness and anxiety with this ingeniously easy-to-use therapy toolkit. Focusing on making ...

On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case Adoptive Couple vs. Baby Girl, which pitted adoptive parents Matt and Melanie Capobianco ag...

Self-neglect and hoarding is present in 1 of 5 social work cases in mental health and older people's services. These cases can be the most alarming...

The Definitive Guide to Theraplay® for Practitioners, officially endorsed by the Theraplay® InstituteTheraplay is an intervention that focuses on e...

Namaste Care is a therapeutic approach to caring for those living with advanced dementia, focused on improving their quality of life through a simp...

Social worker. You're a helping hand, a rock in the tempest, a friendly face through the hard times, and a catalyst for change. But what about you?...

A feminist, an outspoken activist, a woman without a college education, Midge Costanza was one of the unlikeliest of White House insiders. Yet in 1...

Presenting clergy and chaplains with unique therapeutic tools for helping senior adults enrich their later years, this book gives advice on how to ...

Music therapy is a valuable method of support and treatment for those dealing with trauma within the adoption community. Music Therapy in Adoption ...

Evidence for the negative effects of segregation and concentrated poverty in America's cities now exists in abundance; poor and underrepresented co...

This book outlines a framework for art therapy with older adults rooted in a belief in the autonomy and self-efficacy of older adults, including th...