A Radical Perspective on Communication and Shared Meaning
Autistic people often experience difficulties with social communication. This can impact all areas of life and can contribute to poorer mental health outcomes, reduced opportunities for fulfilling social interactions and barriers to health and social care, education and employment. This book offers a new way of understanding why cross-neurotype ......
A Handbook for Frontline Caregivers Working with Women with Perinatal Mental Health Difficulties
Postnatal Depression and Maternal Mental Health will provide readers with an excellent grasp of postnatal depression and the range of perinatal mental health difficulties they may come across in universal services for mental illness in pregnant and postnatal women.
The Communication Games 2.0 series is a collection of resources for English language teachers, and Advanced Communication Games 2.0 is designed for intermediate language learners at CEFR B2+-C2 level.. Earlier editions of the series have been best sellers globally and have already been translated into 12 languages.
All you need to know to teach spoken grammar in the language classroom
Spoken grammar is often neglected in the classroom. Much of the grammar covered in published ELT materials and taught globally perpetuates the standard ELT syllabus, which is largely based on 'tidy' and very often more written-like grammar. In Spoken Grammar, Jon Hird explores how teachers can supplement or modify the more traditional ELT ......
Exploring Theory, Neurodivergent Lived Experience and Implications for Practice
The Double Empathy Reader brings together a substantial collection of work from leading researchers, theorists and practitioners, with first-hand accounts of neurodivergent people, to explore this growing area of study within the neurodiversity movement. This comprehensive handbook explores Damian Milton's 'double empathy problem': the breakdown ......
Advanced techniques and evidence-based guidance to make lessons more motivating and productive
Teaching teenagers offers a range of challenges, but also comes with exciting and rewarding opportunities for both teachers and students. Taking Your Language Teaching of Teenagers to the Next Level explores what it is like to be a teacher of teenagers, delving into the teenage brain to help you get the most out of teenage learners and improve ......
Integrating Attachment, PACE and Trauma-informed Care
Dyadic Developmental Practice (DDP)has evolved from a direct therapeutic model with children and adopted or foster parents, to a way of supporting interactions, deepening understanding and building relationships through mainstream attachment and trauma-focused work within children and family services. This book will be the first to offer DDP ......
The Communication Games 2.0 series is a collection of resources for English language teachers, and Intermediate Communication Games 2.0 is designed for language learners at CEFR B1-B2 level. Earlier editions of the series have been best sellers globally and have already been translated into 12 languages.
An Exploratory Programme for People with Attachment and Relational Trauma
Traditionally, people with attachment and relational trauma have been excluded from longer-term psychological therapies on the basis that they are 'hard to engage' and considered 'untreatable'. This new model of group psychotherapy is underpinned by the theory and practice of Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), with necessary adaptions to address ......
