Practical support for parents to be, and health and social care practitioners
A unique and practical book on managing autistic pregnancy, childbirth and the post-natal period for autistic parents and for the health and social care practitioners who may support them, enabling caregivers to provide reasonably adjusted care with the best outcomes for autistic parents and their babies.
Mental Health and Wellbeing in Primary Education offers a wealth of advice, tips and lesson plans for teaching and promoting mental wellbeing to primary age children along with a detailed introduction to how a range of key issues are diagnosed and treated.
A Practical Guide to Structured Professional Judgement and Violence Prevention
In Risk Rules - A Practical Guide to Structured Professional Judgement and Violence Prevention, experts from a range of fields provide a concise, accessible introduction to the principles of violence risk assessment and management, and explore the challenges of accurate clinical prediction across a range of populations and contexts.
This book came about from the authors' experience working together in clinical learning disabilities services, and their work to move the focus away from the management of challenging behaviour and towards a trauma-informed, attachment-based approach to caring. It will introduce some of the key theories that have informed our understanding of the ......
Early Intervention, Ongoing Support and Flexible Evidence-Based Care
This long-awaited successor to Children and Adolescents Mental Health Today (2008) updates and expands the content to offer a contemporary look at the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people across the whole age range from 0 to 25.
Person-centred care for individuals with mental illness: a values-based approach is a guide to support staff working in mental health in-patient settings.
Later life can be a time when our established routines and coping strategies are challenged by retirement, losses, changes in social role and disabilities, resulting in frightening threats to the integrity of self. Such changes may jeopardise longstanding and cherished ways of relating - patterns that may seem to be bound up with our very ......
A Comprehensive Assessment for Dementia in People with Down Syndrome andOthers with Intellectual Disabilities (2nd edition)
Diagnosis of prodromal Alzheimer's disease and AD dementia in people with Down's Syndrome is a major challenge. The comprehensive Cambridge Examination for Mental Disorders of Older People with DS and Others with Intellectual Disabilities (CAMDEX-DS) has been validated for diagnosing prodromal AD and AD dementia.
