Our books on education focus on pastoral care (also look at our child psychiatry and psychology page). We also publish on particular issues, and are proud to have published Growing up with Science for the Academia Europaea, which looks at science education and how to get it right.

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Improving Children's Services Networks

Lessons from Family Centres

Jane Tunstill, Jane Aldgate and Marilyn Hughes

This book details and evaluates expert research into the developing role of family centres in the light of current political and social trends including. A vital addition to the literature on child care services, Improving Children's Services Networks is essential reading for social care practitioners and students, and government policy makers. more »

2006, Paperback: £25.00/ $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-461-2, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 160pp

Keywords: carers, child protection, child psychology, children, children's rights, community care, education, families, parenting, social care, social policy, social work, supported living

Personalisation in Practice

Supporting Young People with Disabilities through the Transition to Adulthood

Suzie Franklin
With Helen Sanderson

This book demonstrates very clearly how the personalisation of support and services works in practice. The authors describe how Jennie, a young person with autism and learning difficulties, was supported through the transition from school to living independently using simple, evidence-based person-centred planning tools. Jennie's story illustrates the importance of quality person-centred... more »

November 2013, Paperback: £13.99/ $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-84905-443-0, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 128pp

Keywords: adolescence, Asperger syndrome, autism, carers, children, community care, disability, employment, families, housing, intellectual disabilities, joint working, nonverbal learning disabilities, parenting, personalisation, social care, social work, special education, supported living, teenagers, transitions

A Practical Guide to Outcome Evaluation

Liz Hoggarth and Hilary Comfort

For those involved in commissioning and running projects working with people, measuring performance and assessing outcomes are an essential part of applying for and maintaining funding. This versatile book guides you through the process of evaluating your project in order to improve funding applications and build the case its survival. more »

2010, Paperback: £24.99/ $42.95
ISBN: 978-1-84905-037-1, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 224pp

Keywords: community care, counselling, education, employment, health care, housing, mainstream education, mental health, nursing, pastoral care, probation, PSHE, social care, social policy, social work, special education, youthwork

Supporting Children in Public Care in Schools

A Resource for Trainers of Teachers, Carers and Social Workers

John Holland and Catherine Randerson

This is a training package designed for delivery to all professionals supporting young people who are in public care. Based on collaborative multi-agency and multi-professional work with psychologists, teachers and social workers, the training pack includes photocopiable material and instructions for more than a dozen training sessions. more »

2005, Paperback: £35.00/ $65.00
ISBN: 978-1-84310-325-7, 246mm x 173mm / 10in x 7in, 144pp

Keywords: child protection, child psychology, children, community care, counselling, education, mental health, palliative care, social work

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• ADD,
• addiction,
• ADHD,
• adolescence,
• adoption,
• adults,
• advocacy,
• alcohol,
• alternative therapies,
• anger management,
• anorexia,
• anxiety,
• applied behaviour analysis,
• art therapy,
• arts therapies,
• Asperger syndrome,
• attachment,
• augmentative communication,
• autism,
• bereavement,
• bible stories,
• biomedical intervention,
• bipolar disorder,
• bulimia,
• bullying,
• careers,
• carers,
• cerebral palsy,
• challenging behaviour,
• chi kung,
• child development,
• child protection,
• child psychiatry,
• child psychology,
• children,
• children's rights,
• cognitive behavioural therapy,
• colour therapy,
• communication,
• complementary therapies,
• counselling,
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• creative writing as therapy,
• creativity,
• dance and movement therapy,
• death,
• dementia,
• depression,
• developmental coordination disorder,
• diet,
• disability,
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• divorce,
• domestic abuse,
• Down's syndrome,
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• drugs,
• dyslexia,
• dyspraxia,
• early intervention,
• Early Years Foundation Stage,
• eating disorders,
• education,
• educational psychology,
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• emotions,
• employment,
• epilepsy,
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• families,
• fiction,
• folklore and myth,
• forensic psychotherapy,
• fostering,
• further education,
• gifted and talented,
• giftedness,
• grief,
• group psychotherapy,
• health care,
• high functioning autism,
• higher education,
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• homeschooling,
• housing,
• hyperlexia,
• inclusive classroom,
• intellectual disabilities,
• interdisciplinary arts therapies,
• joint working,
• Key Stage 0,
• Key Stage 1,
• Key Stage 2,
• Key Stage 3,
• Key Stage 4,
• law,
• life skills,
• literacy,
• looked after children,
• mainstream education,
• massage,
• mental health,
• mental illness,
• messy play,
• mindfulness,
• movement,
• music therapy,
• nonverbal learning disabilities,
• nursing,
• obsessive compulsive disorder,
• occupational therapy,
• offenders,
• older people,
• palliative care,
• parenting,
• pastoral care,
• person-centred,
• personal hygiene,
• personalisation,
• pervasive developmental disorder,
• play,
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• practical theology,
• probation,
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• psychology,
• psychosis,
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• qigong,
• race,
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• relationships,
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• restorative justice,
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• savants,
• school phobia,
• SEAL,
• seizures,
• self esteem,
• self harm,
• sensory issues,
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• sexual abuse,
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• special education,
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• spirituality,
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• suicide,
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• teenagers,
• theatre,
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• tics,
• tourettes,
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• trauma,
• violence,
• yoga,
• youthwork