This new edition focuses on evidence-based practice in helping professionals and practitioners to provide high-quality personalised care for children and young people with intellectual disabilities who have mental health needs. The contents provide additional context covering prevalence, legal and cultural and contemporary mental health issues.
Enhancing Well-Being and Reducing Burnout Through Restorative Leadership
Supportive clinical supervision provides healthcare workers with a safe, confidential space to discuss the impact of work pressures, process challenging emotional aspects of their roles and reflect on work-life balance.Â
An in-depth review of the world of fire over the last half-decade and how the tragedy of Grenfell Tower has its roots in decisions made in the 1980s. The book will be a must for anyone interested in the history and development of the fire service and the fire industry, and why disparate decisions made in isolation linked together on June 2017.
Sexual Health Education Programme Manual for Groups and Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
Let's Talk About Sex is a sexual health education programme manual for individuals and groups with intellectual disabilities. The manual provides a contemporary, well-structured programme covering physical and emotional aspects of sexual health, gender identity, consent, assertiveness, dignity and respect, and sexual relationships.
A leadership development manual for frontline health and care staff
This essential training manual provides an effective framework to develop frontline health and social care staff as leaders for their teams, by increasing the nurse or carer's positive influence on their working environment, raising morale and confidence in improving the quality of care.
Exploring Concepts, Lived Experience and Implications for Practice
This thought-provoking collection is written for all stakeholders in relation to autism and neurodivergent conditions. Despite having wide impact on a variety of disciplines, neurodiversity and related concepts are often poorly understood, which can lead to uninformed debate and potential tensions between stakeholders regarding service provision ......
A Trauma-informed Approach to Caring for People with a Personality Disorder and an Intellectual Disability
This training manual introduces trauma informed approaches to caring for people who have both a personality disorder and an intellectual disability. The CaPDID training is a short course designed for staff without any specific expertise in mental health or psychotherapy, such as care home staff, learning disability nurses or managers.
A Cognitive Analytic Approach to Helping Relationships
Gets to the heart of therapy by exploring how underlying relational processes work regardless of model, and by presenting innovative techniques for using time, reflection and shared responsibility to maximize effectiveness and improve client outcomes.
