Böcker av Robin Dynes

A collection of over 100 structured activities for use with groups of older people that are designed to improve overall physical health and emotional wellbeing. Each activity comes with specific instructions for delivery along with helpful handouts and additional resources.

Provides ideas for introducing group members to each other, breaking down barriers, energising people, moving the group on, building trust between group members, and more. It aims to enable group leaders to promote group members' self development, meet the needs of their different learning styles, and stimulate their creativity.

How can you encourage people to be motivated? How can you create that sense of yearning to achieve or reach a goal? How can you energise and inspire group members? The exercises and activities in this book helps you to motivate your team or the group with which you are working.

In all types of support services and care situations one of the biggest challenges is motivating people to change their behaviour. This book is suitable for support workers, social workers, health workers, youth workers, probation officers, employment services, tutors and carers.

Spanning the years 1930 to 1989, this is a highly practical enjoyable puzzle book. It covers events, people, entertainment and everyday life and is designed to encourage group participation to recall and discuss their own personal experiences. It is fully adaptable according to the needs and abilities of the individuals within the group.

Gives guidance on how to put together life histories in supportive or residential settings. This title provides: ideas for different types of life histories; activities, strategies and material for prompting memories; helpful tools and writing tips; suggestions for support and forming partnerships with other local services; and, more.

Features 80 adaptable and photocopiable games for uses with older people, as well as individuals or groups of all ages. This handbook includes games that can be used as part of a social activities programme, to exercise memory skills or as the prelude to discussion, so that individuals can share difficulties and explore methods of aiding memory.

Suitable for scout and church leaders, as well as occupational therapists, activity organisers and social workers, this book contains ideas which include introduction mixing exercises, games using gentle movement, exuberant games, puzzles brain teasers, verbal games, and pen paper games.

A quiz book that contains more than 2,000 questions categorised into 40 subjects. It features questions that are realistically within the scope of the average person. It covers various topics in such areas as cookery, animals, sport, home, spellings, history and general knowledge.

Contains 100 activities that are non-competitive and which can be used across the whole age spectrum with individuals or groups. This book provides material for use with learning disabilities, mental health, physical disabilities and regressed psychiatric or geriatric patients. It is useful for day centres, hospitals, and the group leader.

Designed for people wanting to develop an anxiety management programme for use with groups or individuals, this book is divided into two parts: information for anxiety management training; and, 10 chapters each looking at specific aspect of anxiety management.