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Helping People with a Learning Disability Explore Choice

Eve and Neil Jackson
Illustrated by Tim Baker

Following the experiences of five adults with learning disabilities and their carers, this resource comprises a series of short stories focusing on different areas of decision-making. Sections for the carer explore the issues raised in the story, while illustrations help the reader to engage imaginatively with the stories and the issues involved. more »

1999, Paperback: £19.99/ $32.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-694-2, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 120pp

Keyword: intellectual disabilities

Therapeutic Communities

Past, Present and Future

Edited by Penelope Campling and Rex Haigh

Examining the tradition of therapeutic communities, Therapeutic Communities: Past, Present and Future is a wide-ranging introduction to both theory and practice. The book explores the creative and original approaches of such communities to psychiatric care, and is a stimulating challenge to all those working in the mental health field. more »

1999, Paperback: £24.99/ $42.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-626-3, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 272pp

Keyword: therapeutic communities

The Therapeutic Potential of Creative Writing

The Therapeutic Potential of Creative Writing

Writing Myself

Gillie Bolton

Suitable both for health-care professionals who wish to implement therapeutic writing with their patients, and for those wishing to start writing creatively in order to help themselves, The Therapeutic Potential of Creative Writing provides practical, well tried and tested suggestions for beginning to write and for developing writing further. more »

1999, Paperback: £17.95/ $36.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-599-0, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 256pp

Keywords: creative writing as therapy, health care, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, therapeutic communities

Donna Williams Autobiography, 3-volume set

Somebody Somewhere, Nobody Nowhere and Like Colour to the Blind

Donna Williams

This is a 3-volume set comprising the books Nobody Nowhere, Somebody Somewhere and Like Colour to the Blind. more »

1998, Paperback: £37.50
ISBN: 978-1-85302-765-9, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 704pp

Keywords: Asperger syndrome, autism, autobiography, memoirs

Nobody Nowhere

Nobody Nowhere

The Remarkable Autobiography of an Autistic Girl

Donna Williams

Nobody Nowhere is an account of the soul of someone who lived the word 'autism' and survived in an unsympathetic environment despite intense inner chaos and incomprehension. It describes how, against the odds, Donna came to live independently, achieve a place at university, and write this remarkable autobiography. more »

1998, Paperback: £13.99/ $21.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-718-5, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 192pp

Keywords: Asperger syndrome, memoirs

Remorse and Reparation

Edited by Murray Cox

Remorse, or rather the lack of it, frequently features in banner headlines. But there is little systematic study of this important inter-disciplinary topic whose relevance has extensive social ramifications. The complex relationship between remorse, shame, guilt and attempts at reparation, are discussed in this authoritative work. more »

1998, Paperback: £25.00/ $42.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-452-8, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 288pp 1998, Hardback: £49.99/ $95.00
ISBN: 978-1-85302-451-1, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 288pp

Keywords: forensic psychiatry, forensic psychotherapy, offenders, probation

Music Therapy in Palliative Care

Music Therapy in Palliative Care

New Voices

Edited by David Aldridge

In the last decade music therapists have developed their work with people who have life-threatening illnesses and with those who are dying. This book presents some of that work from therapists working in different countries with different approaches, showing how valuable the inclusion of music therapy in palliative care has already proved to be. more »

1998, Paperback: £24.99/ $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-739-0, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 176pp

Keywords: music therapy, palliative care, psychotherapy

Somebody Somewhere

Somebody Somewhere

Breaking Free from the World of Autism

Donna Williams

This book takes us deeper into Williams' journey. She recounts the funny, sometimes harrowing awakenings arising from sessions with a cognitive psychologist. We travel with her in her breakthroughs in working with autistic children and adults like her, as she finally finds a way of 'simply being' among others, without selling out who she really is. more »

1998, Paperback: £13.99
ISBN: 978-1-85302-719-2, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 208pp

Keywords: adults, Asperger syndrome, memoirs

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

A Multidisciplinary Approach

Henryk Holowenko

This book provides clear guidelines on good practice in assessment, diagnosis and management of, and provision for, children with AD/HD. Written for teachers, parents, medical practitioners, psychologists and other professionals, Holowenko's multidisciplinary approach stresses the collaborative nature of successful management of the condition. more »

1998, Paperback: £15.99/ $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-741-3, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 112pp

Keywords: ADHD, children, mental health, occupational therapy, psychology, special education, speech and language pathology, speech and language therapy

Lifelong Learning

The Politics of the New Learning Environment

Geoffrey Elliott

Elliott explores the imperatives of a mass system through data drawn from a study of access- and foundation-year students and their teachers. Arguing that our present conceptions of education are narrow and market-led, he proposes an alternative, pedagogy-based system to establish a society truly capable of lifelong learning. more »

1998, Paperback: £30.00/ $47.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-580-8, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 144pp

Keywords: education, higher education policy

Like Colour to the Blind

Like Colour to the Blind

Soul Searching and Soul Finding

Donna Williams

In Donna's relationship with Ian, a man with difficulties related to her own, we watch the two of them break through their rock-solid emotional barriers and dare to defy all the rules imposed by the autistic condition of 'exposure anxiety'. Their struggle is told with Donna's characteristic humour, insight and sense of fragility. more »

1998, Paperback: £19.99/ $32.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-720-8, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 304pp

Keywords: Asperger syndrome, autism, memoirs

Younger People with Dementia

Planning, Practice and Development

Edited by Sylvia Cox and John Keady

The first book to address the subject in its own right, this book targets good practice and stimulates an agenda for change. The contributors explore the implications for younger people with dementia and their families at personal and service-development levels. They call for a multi-disciplinary approach to all stages of the provision of services. more »

1998, Paperback: £25.00/ $44.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-588-4, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 336pp

Keyword: dementia

Changing Relationships Between Higher Education and the State

Edited by Mary Henkel and Brenda Little

Examining the patterns of change in relationships between higher education systems and the state throughout Europe, the contributors explore the main theoretical and policy options available to policymakers, and the issues they raise for governments, institutions and academics. more »

1998, Paperback: £30.00/ $55.00
ISBN: 978-1-85302-645-4, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 320pp

Keywords: education, higher education policy

Disability Politics and Community Care

Mark Priestley

Disability Politics and Community Care encourages health and welfare professionals and policy makers to start working much more closely with disabled people themselves. He presents practical suggestions for the changes necessary for the proposed reorganisation of service provision which will re-define direct work with disabled people. more »

1998, Paperback: £29.99/ $47.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-652-2, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 256pp

Keywords: community care, disability

Disability Voice

Towards an Enabling Education

Mal Leicester

The book encourages equal opportunities for disabled people by promoting the practice of enabling education, a 'disability-aware' education that caters for everyone's educational needs. Interviews with disabled people are also included, giving their own recommendations for educators and policy makers. more »

1998, Paperback: £25.00/ $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-355-2, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 128pp

Keyword: disability

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