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This easy-to-read handbook shows you how to use polyvagal theory to understand the in-built emotional reactions behind your child's behaviour, and become a positive, engaged place of safety to help them find their balance and build emotional regulation skills.

Using 35 years of on-the-job experience, Diana Hudson has updated the essential guide to supporting children with SpLD's. Embracing the change in thoughts and language surrounding neurodiversity, this new edition will help professionals and parents alike to learn and engage with the discussion around how to best help students with SpLD's.

ACS counselling expert Eva Mendes takes us on a journey through 20 neurodiverse relationships and the unique strengths that drive them. Offering best practice advice and strategies on how to thrive in your relationship, Eva works to identify common themes amongst autistic relationships and irons out the widespread myths surrounding them.

What do autistics want you to know, and how can you support them best? This frank and easy-to-read guide sets out the basics in a no-nonsense way. If you want to make the lives of your autistic friends and family happier and easier, this is the book you need.

A research-informed look at the unique challenges of girls and women with ADHD, from an international ADHD expert, drawing on the lived experiences of ADHD women and girls to provide tips and strategies for stronger emotional regulation and self-understanding.

A parent's guide to understanding how to best support your child with literacy difficulties, written by a leading psychologist. Contains practical tips on how to identify your child's reading and writing challenges, what you can do to help support them and practical advice on communicating with teachers.

The teacher's guide to children with literacy difficulties. Contains practical tips on how to identify children with reading and writing challenges, working with parents and SpLd teachers how to approach the co-occurrence of literacy difficulties with other problems, and exemplar teaching strategies for struggling children.

In this vital guide, Dr Karen Treisman explores ways for individuals, teams, and health care organisations to infuse and integrate trauma-informed principles into their practice, and into the organisational culture, to avoid re-traumatisation and provide a better care environment.

This is a unique and important perspective on challenging ableism in healthcare from an author who is a service user, a disability activist, and an occupational therapist. Georgia Vine charts her life's journey and provides vital insight on how the education, health and social care systems need to be improved.

This resourceful guide explains the science behind trauma and how it impacts specific regions of the brain and the sensory systems. It provides low-cost strategies and activities on how to rehab regions of the brain and can be applied in many different settings including juvenile justice, schools, and residential care.

Part unflinching exposé, part call to action, this vital book drags inequality into the light and examines how it feeds vulnerable children into the cycle of deprivation. Pushing readers to examine their own mindsets, it provides practical ways for individuals as well as institutions to enact real change and open up a positive future.

A lifeline for parents of adopted or fostered children looking for simple and easy to use therapeutic parenting ideas and activities. This book features creative strategies that will help you to nurture a strong connection with your child, based on trust, compassion, and safety.

This sensory yoga training program has been designed for a variety of professions and settings to help children and teens struggling with trauma, stress, depression, and other related mental health conditions. It nurtures the development of healthy habits and self-esteem through the reduction of stress, emotional dysregulation, and hypervigilance.

The definitive guide to trauma-transformative practice. World-leading experts outline emerging research and practice relating to trauma, and what this means for practitioners supporting individuals, families and communities.

An extensive, wide-ranging maths and dyscalculia assessment tool covering the main foundation topics of numeracy, involving number-based topics. For use by teachers, SENCOs and home educators alike for students age 6-16 complete with downloadable fillable forms for accessors and pupils, user manual and two separate tests.

A guide to the history, development, and application of dyadic developmental psychotherapy (DDP) in children's residential care services. From using the PACE model in conversations to balancing emotional regulation with physical safety in secure homes, this book explores the theory and practicalities of supporting children in residential care.

A guide to using dyadic developmental psychotherapy (DDP) to support children and families in social care settings. It explores not only direct intervention with children, but also ways to apply DDP principles to difficult decisions for social workers, and adaptations to sensitively support children and families from a range of backgrounds.

Drawing from the wisdom of Chinese medicine, this book examines eczema from its core, providing proven-effective formulas. This guide also highlights the influence of environmental factors and emotional wellbeing. It is the perfect resource for those treating chronic skin conditions in their daily practice.

This stigma-free guide to psychosis highlights the voices of people who've been there. Featuring interviews with people from all walks of life, this book explores what psychosis is really like, and how to live with the practical challenges as well as handling other people's misconceptions.

Revitalise your approach to supporting survivors of intimate partner violence with this innovative art therapy-inspired method. The creative projects linked to each phase of the Empowerment Wheel help you guide clients through a journey of self-exploration towards recovery and a healthier, more confident future.

Based on many years' experience working with young people, this reassuring guide explores the individual and environmental reasons why teens self-harm and shows parents, carers, and teachers how to regulate their own responses. Advice on providing calm, validating support allows carers to help teens feel heard and reduce self-harming behaviour.

Eating Disorders Don't Discriminate is an honest collection of writings confronting stereotypes and misconceptions about what eating disorders look like and who they impact. Tapping into sources of expert knowledge throughout, the diversity in accounts showcase how you can begin to understand your own journey of body acceptance and recovery and sup

Packed with over fifty playful, practical, and purposeful activities, this book provides clinical practitioners with the tools they need to work with children aged 4-12 looking to regulate and manage their anger, and the adults who support them.

The OCD Recovery Journal is for anybody struggling to stay motivated while managing the challenges of OCD. With journaling prompts and creative activities to help you take control of your OCD and care for yourself in the process, this journal is yours to be as free and imaginative with as you wish.

This illustrated guide offers a fresh and accessible introduction to the clinical psychology field, including the history and context of the profession. Through a critical lens, it explores topical arguments and debates within the profession, while also addressing issues of diversity, inclusivity, and quality.

This handy workbook shows kids how to build the skills to crush OCD. From recognising compulsions to using exposure (ERP) to tackle triggers before they kick in, the exercises in this book are built from the author's expertise as a child therapist and OCD specialist to give kids the tools to reduce their symptoms.

This book provides a holistic and comprehensive approach to prostate cancer recovery by exploring the biological, surgical, psychological and social wellbeing of prostate cancer survivors. It is full of actionable advice, practical strategies and handouts, and includes a comprehensive and accessible Q&A by two esteemed urologists.

This pioneering resource provides birth professionals and pregnant people insight into navigating birth, from conception to the perinatal period, whilst fat. It dismantles the stigma faced by fat people in the birthing world and provides effective guidance for better quality of care whilst empowering them to feel confident in their choices.

In this collection, contributors from across the world describe their experiences with Functional Neurological Disorder. Chapters explore the fight for diagnosis, the emotional impact of living with a long term, stigmatised condition, coping with symptoms, and more, all from the perspective of people living with FND.

Dementia care can be revolutionised to put service users at the centre of decisions, by recognising and removing the societal and environmental barriers in the way of accessibility. The culmination of 5 years of research, this book shows the way through the results of 26 projects led by people with dementia in the DEEP Network.