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Use your brain to beat panic and anxiety: the complete guide to understanding and tackling anxiety disorders
- Author:
- ILLMAN John
- Publisher:
- Cassell
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 176p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A practical handbook that reveals the role of the brain in anxiety disorders and gives guidelines for effective treatment with a range of therapy options. What is known about the workings of the human brain has increased immeasurably in recent times. It is now known exactly which parts of the brain react when persons feel panicked, depressed, or overwhelmed emotionally. It is this new science which can help to understand how the brain generates the feelings and, in turn, how to control those feelings. Everyone is affected by feelings of anxiety and panic at some time. By explaining which parts of the brain are affected and how these reactions can be controlled, this book provides practical guidance on conquering specific phobias as well as help for general anxiety issues. Detailed advice on available drugs and cognitive therapy exercises will also enable sufferers to find the therapy that best suits their individual needs.
Protecting children: a practical guide
- Author:
- KAY Janet
- Publisher:
- Cassell
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 208p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Provides a framework for a basic understanding of child abuse and child protection issues for a range of child care workers in a variety of settings, including those doing NVQ level 3. Includes exercises and contains chapters on: awareness of child abuse; types of abuse; signs and symptoms of abuse; responding to suspected abuse; the legal framework; working with children who may have been abused; and protecting children from abuse.
Children's language and communication difficulties: understanding, identification and intervention
- Authors:
- DOCKRELL Julie, MESSER David
- Publisher:
- Cassell
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 191p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Introductory text outlining language and communication difficulties that may be experienced by children as they develop. Examines problems of identification and diagnosis, and explores the range of physical and cognitive disabilities associated with language problems. Also looks at alternative forms of communication and discusses and evaluates recently developed intervention techniques.
The ethics of community care
- Author:
- WILMOT Stephen
- Publisher:
- Cassell
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 220p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Analyses the general principles of ethics and considers how those involved in providing community care services might arrive at their own judgments of right and wrong in a variety of given situations. Includes chapters on the concepts of autonomy, responsibility and care, and on specific issues, such as resource allocation. Includes practice examples.
Adoption: theory, policy and practice
- Authors:
- TRISELIOTIS John, SHIREMAN Joan, HUNDLEBY Marion
- Publisher:
- Cassell
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 288p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Brings together theoretical, policy and practical issues surrounding adoption. Contains chapters on: outcome studies; children and the childcare system; open adoption; birth parents; direct work with children; recruiting, preparing and selecting adoptive parents; transracial adoption; intercountry adoption; single parent adoption; and post placement services.
Who cares: social service organizations and their users
- Editors:
- SCHULZE Hans-Joachim, WIRTH Wolfgang
- Publisher:
- Cassell
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 256p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Sets down a frame of reference for dealing with social services from a political, sociological, psychological and educational point of view. Discusses relationships between professionals and users with regard to communication, co-operation and responsiveness. Also contains chapters on: networking and coordination in social and health services in Germany; interorganisational dimensions of service delivery and their impact on quality of services; contracting and accountability in the UK; how to improve responsiveness of social services at the local level; youth services and registration; the fragmentation of social policy and utilisation of services by disabled children in Germany; improving communication, cooperation and responsiveness in multi-problem families; communication and cooperation between parents and professional care givers in day care; and citizen satisfaction and complaints in 6 Norwegian municipalities. Concludes with a section on social service integration and user involvement in Europe.
Special needs provision: assessment, concern and action
- Author:
- SEWELL Geof
- Publisher:
- Cassell
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 205p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Aimed primarily at teachers, but also useful for all those involved with children with special needs. Looks at practical ways of meeting children's special educational needs in the context of the ordinary classroom. Includes chapters on: special needs coordinators; school-based assessment; speaking and listening in the assessment process; inservice training in reading; talented and more able pupils; emotional and behavioural difficulties; attendance; and integrating statemented pupils.
Changing policy and practice for people with learning disabilities
- Editors:
- MITTLER Peter, SINASON Valerie
- Publisher:
- Cassell
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 232p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Records a series of campaigns and lobbies designed to persuade governments to improve the quality of services and provision for people with learning difficulties. Includes chapters on: advocates and advocacy; expanding opportunities 1994 to 1970; bringing children out of hospital; the work of the Warnock committee; education legislation 1988 to 1994; developing new approaches to family support and community development; disability and the European Community; changing residential services; changing day services; the National Development Team; and alternative communities.
Racism and child protection: the black experience of child sexual abuse
- Author:
- JACKSON Valerie
- Publisher:
- Cassell
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 94p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Study of the effects of racism on the protection and support of black children who have been sexually abused. Explores myths and realities surrounding abuse of black children and looks at the actions of social workers and other professionals. Demonstrates how deeply racism affects the provision of support and care for the abused black child, why such children fail to disclose abuse, and considers what can be done by society to redress the balance.
Care in chaos: frustration and challenge in community care
- Authors:
- HADLEY Roger, CLOUGH Roger
- Publisher:
- Cassell
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 239p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Focuses on the impact of the community care reforms and presents a critique of them based on the anonymous views of practitioners from statutory, voluntary and private organisations. Goes on to analyse the fundamental weaknesses in policy revealed in these interviews and proposes a positive, realistic alternative.