This concise, reader friendly book quickly familiarizes readers with essential aspects of the field of elder abuse, including risk and protective factors, the important roles played by cognition and capacity, clinicians' legal and ethical obligations to report suspected or known elder abuse, and the purpose and function of adult protective ......
A Training and Resource Pack for Healthcare Professionals
This resource is designed to help people with learning disabilities to access health screening, by desensitising them to fears and anxieties they may have.
Parenting a daughter with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is no easy path—especially because of the myth that the disorder is rare to nonexistent in girls. Pioneering researcher Stephen P. Hinshaw provides parents of preschool through high school age girls with vital information and advice in this empathic, empowering guide. Dr. ......
How Spiritual Caregivers Can Help People Navigate Long-term Health Conditions
Many spiritual caregivers, including chaplains, spiritual directors and clergy, are unaware of how they can support people with chronic health conditions. This book combines insights on chronic illness with spiritual care skills and suggestions to enhance well-being for people living with long-term illness.
How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation
A deconstruction of the neoliberal placations about global capitalism, exposing the inequalities of global poverty "We're making headway on global poverty," trills Bill Gates. "Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues," reports the World Bank. "How did the global poverty rate halve in 20 years?" inquires The Economist. Seth Donnelly answers: ......
Helping Children and Families in Foster Care, Kinship Care or Adoption
A burgeoning evidence base supports that arts, play and other creative therapies have potential to help children in foster care, kinship care or adoptive families to recover from complex trauma.
Written by contributors working at the cutting edge of delivering effective therapeutic interventions, this innovative ......
A Guide for Early Years Professionals About the Requirements of Supervision
Supervision for Early Years Workers: A guide for early years professionals about the requirements of supervision will provide a framework and support for early years settings and their staff to implement the expectation of the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage 2014.
For more than 15 years, thousands of young adults have benefited from Project SEARCH: the business-led internship programme that prepares students with disabilities for competitive, integrated employment. This is the only book that distils the programme's secrets to success, giving counsellors, educators, transition coordinators, and other ......
