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“david shemmings”

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  • The Simple Guide to Child Trauma

    What It Is and How to Help

    by Betsy de Thierry ...
    · What is trauma?· How does it affect children?· How can adults help?Providing straightforward answers to these complex questions, The Simple Guide to Child Trauma is the perfect starting point for any adult caring for or working with a child who has experienced trauma. It will help them to understand more about a child's emotional and behavioural responses following trauma and provides welcome ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Assessing Disorganized Attachment Behaviour in Children

    An Evidence-Based Model for Understanding and Supporting Families

    by Yvonne Shemmings, David Shemmings, David Wilkins, Mel Hamilton-Perry, Alice Cook, Claire Denham, Michelle Thompson, Henry Smith, Fran Feeley, Yvalia Febrer, Tania Young, David Phillips, Sonja Falck, Jo George ...
    Assessing Disorganized Attachment Behaviour in Children lays out an evidence-based model for working with and assessing children with disorganized attachment and their adult carers: families whose extreme, erratic and disturbing behaviour can make them perplexing and frustrating to work with.The model is designed to identify key indicators and explanatory mechanisms of child maltreatment: ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Child's World, Third Edition

    The Essential Guide to Assessing Vulnerable Children, Young People and their Families

    by Danielle Turney, Julie Taylor, David Shemmings, Yvonne Shemmings, Arnon Bentovim, Emilie Smeaton, Audrey Tait, Helen Wosu, Gillian Ruch, Beth Tarleton, Nadine Tilbury, Claudia Bernard, Jane Barlow, Emily Munro, Katherine Bishop, Ruth Marchant, Simon Hackett, Emma Palmer, Stephen Pizzey, Jenny Gray, Dave Backwith, Michael Murphy, Michaela Rogers, Christine Gould, Barbara Lawrie, Jane Appleton, Karen Whittaker, Stan Houston, Aideen Naughton, David Jones, Liz Hadcroft, Dawn Hodson, Patrick Neil ...
    This definitive textbook provides accessible information on best practice for assessing the needs and strengths of vulnerable children and their families. It explores the challenges that practitioners face routinely - with suggestions as to how to address them - as well as the established areas for assessment, of children's developmental needs, parenting ability and motivation, and socio-economic ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Understanding Disorganized Attachment

    Theory and Practice for Working with Children and Adults

    by David Shemmings, Yvonne Shemmings ...
    Disorganized attachment, the most extreme form of insecure attachment, can develop in a child when the person who is normally meant to protect them is a source of danger. This usually leads to 'fear without solution' and the effects can be lasting and damaging.This book is a comprehensive and accessible text on disorganized attachment. It outlines what it is, how it can be identified and the key ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Life Story Therapy with Traumatized Children

    A Model for Practice

    by Richard Rose ...
    Life Story Therapy is an approach designed to enable children to explore, question and understand the past events of their lives. It aims to secure their future through strengthening attachment with their carers and providing the opportunity to develop a healthy sense of self and a feeling of wellbeing.This comprehensive overview lays out the theory underlying life story therapy, including an ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Autism and Asperger Syndrome in Adults

    by Luke Beardon ...
    'Luke has years of valuable experience, and is always thinking and learning about autism' - Professor Nicola MartinHave you recently been diagnosed as autistic?Do you suspect you might be autistic?If you've recently been diagnosed as autistic, think you may be or are close to someone who is, one of the things you will like most about this book is the way in which it challenges the idea of autism ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Solution Focused Brief Therapy

    100 Key Points and Techniques

    by Harvey Ratner, Evan George, Chris Iveson ...
    Series series 100 Key Points
    Solution Focused Brief Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques provides a concise and jargon-free guide to the thinking and practice of this exciting approach, which enables people to make changes in their lives quickly and effectively. It covers:The history and background to solution focused practiceThe philosophical underpinnings of the approachTechniques and practicesSpecific applications to ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Autism

    How to raise a happy autistic child

    by Jessie Hewitson ...
    'A wise SatNav for what is often a bewildering, or even scary, zone of parenting. The book offers real-world, road-tested, child-first and family-friendly advice; while also highlighting the twin truths that autism is not a tragedy, and that adaptation and acceptance are not resignation' David Mitchell, bestselling author and co-translator of The Reason I Jump'A must-read for anyone with an ... Read more

    Was $4.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

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  • Challenging The Myths Of Autism

    Unlock New Possibilities and Hope

    by Jonathan Alderson ...
    How many times have you heard that people with autism lack creativity? That they reject affection or suffer from mental retardation? As the number of children diagnosed with autism surges, researchers and educators are racing to define the amorphous nature of this spectrum disorder and its wide range of symptoms. But in trying to characterize this widely varying group, people often perpetuate a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Stop Worrying: Get Your Life Back On Track With Cbt

    by Ad Kerkhof, Colin Coles ...
    This practical book contains Cognitive Behavioural Therapy exercises to be completed, which will give you insight into the content, nature and seriousness of your worrying. ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Moving on after Childhood Sexual Abuse

    Understanding the Effects and Preparing for Therapy

    by Jonathan Willows ...
    This self-help guide allows those who have experienced childhood sexual abuse to consider the impact that it has had on their adult lives from a new perspective, helping them to understand the effects, and prepare for therapy.Based on known reactions to physical and emotional trauma, the book explains how a broad range of difficulties in adulthood can result from sexual abuse in childhood. The ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Why Can't My Child Behave?

    Empathic Parenting Strategies that Work for Adoptive and Foster Families

    by Amber Elliott ...
    'Parenting a child who doesn't know how to be parented is the most difficult job in the world.' Why Can't My Child Behave? provides friendly expert advice on how to respond to difficult behaviours and emotions for parents of children with developmental trauma. Each chapter focusses on the common difficulties faced by carers or parents and features quick, applicable ideas with exercises and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD