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How do you spot the signs that a young person has been victimised? What do you do if you are approached by a young person who has been affected by crime or bullying? What is the impact of crime and how can you best aid the young person's recovery? more »
May 2010, Paperback: £14.99/ $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-84905-098-2, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 208pp
Keywords: adolescence, advocacy, bullying, child protection, child psychology, children, children's rights, communication, counselling, domestic abuse, education, educational training, emotions, families, grief, joint working, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, law, mainstream education, offenders, pastoral care, probation, PSHE, psychotherapy, race, relationships, residential care, resilience, restorative justice, risk assessment, safeguarding children, school phobia, SEAL, self esteem, self harm, sexual abuse, social care, social policy, social work, social work law, special education, supervision, teenagers, therapeutic communities, trauma, violence, youthwork
The issue of 'recovery' has been increasingly prioritised by policymakers in recent years, but the meaning of the concept remains ambiguous. This edited collection brings together the thoughts and experiences of researchers, practitioners and service users from the fields of health, addiction and criminal justice and centres on current developments in addiction policy and practice. more »
March 2010, Paperback: £22.99/ $32.95
ISBN: 978-1-84905-017-3, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 208pp
Keywords: addiction, adults, alcohol, children, counselling, drugs, forensic psychiatry, forensic psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, health care, joint working, nursing, offenders, older people, person-centred, probation, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychology, psychotherapy, residential care, self harm, social care, social policy, social work, substance abuse, teenagers, therapeutic communities, youthwork
Emotional maltreatment is widespread and has a profoundly harmful effect on a child's development. The effects of abuse are often carried into adulthood, and emotionally abused children are more likely to experience a range of problems as adults including depression, substance misuse and eating disorders. This book sets out to identify 'what works' in preventing emotional maltreatment from... more »
2010, Paperback: £18.99/ $32.95
ISBN: 978-1-84905-053-1, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 176pp
Keywords: adolescence, adoption, attachment, child protection, child psychiatry, child psychology, children, cognitive behavioural therapy, counselling, domestic abuse, early intervention, educational psychology, emotions, families, health care, joint working, looked after children, mental health, mental illness, parenting, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychology, psychotherapy, residential care, resilience, risk assessment, safeguarding children, self esteem, self harm, sexual abuse, social care, social policy, social work, substance abuse, teenagers, therapeutic communities, trauma, violence, youthwork
Children and Adolescents in Trauma presents a variety of creative approaches to working with young people in residential children's homes, secure or psychiatric units, and special schools.
The contributors describe a wide range of approaches, including art therapy and literature, and how creative methods are applied in cases of abuse, trauma, violence, self-harm and identity development.... more »
2010, Paperback: £22.99/ $34.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-437-7, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 256pp
Keywords: adolescence, art therapy, arts therapies, attachment, challenging behaviour, child development, child psychiatry, child psychology, children, counselling, creative therapies, families, interdisciplinary arts therapies, mental health, pastoral care, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychology, psychotherapy, residential care, social care, storymaking, teenagers, therapeutic communities, trauma, violence
Working in any area of mental health nursing presents complex issues regarding the nurse-patient relationship. For those working in prolonged clinical contact with offenders, relationships with patients and colleagues can be particularly emotionally intense and sometimes difficult to express. This book attempts to understand and articulate the emotional labour of forensic nursing and... more »
2008, Paperback: £22.99/ $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-949-5, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 240pp
Keywords: forensic psychiatry, forensic psychotherapy, mental health, nursing, offenders, psychiatry, psychology, therapeutic communities
Dynamic Security describes the theory, practice and management of democratic therapeutic communities (TCs) in prisons using clinical examples and case studies. The contributors explore the complexities of working in TCs and the powerful emotional impact generated in the process of therapy in the forensic setting. In particular, they focus on the previous life history of offenders in... more »
2006, Paperback: £25.00/ $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-385-1, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 288pp
Keywords: offenders, psychiatry, therapeutic communities
This guide for setting up a clinical service in the National Health Service is based on the author's experience of leading a nationally funded project to develop two new specialist services in different parts of the country and involving three separate NHS Trusts. more »
2006, Paperback: £19.99/ $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-162-8, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 216pp
Keywords: health care, therapeutic communities
'Gillie Bolton, Victoria Field and Kate Thompson are doing remarkable, deeply meaningful work – with eloquence and compassion. They encourage writing to help heal spirits and minds. I salute their clarity and conviction – we need their wisdom in this world.' more »
2006, Paperback: £15.99/ $26.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-468-1, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 256pp
Keywords: arts therapies, creative writing as therapy, health care, social care, social work, therapeutic communities
What precipitates mental breakdown? How do people experience such extremes – and how do they see others’ interpretations and interventions? Most important, how do people recover from these episodes and get their lives back? These are some of the questions addressed in this anthology of first-hand accounts of mental breakdown and recovery. Eleven very different stories together... more »
2006, Paperback: £17.99/ $30.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-057-7, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 204pp
Keywords: counselling, forensic psychotherapy, mental health, occupational therapy, psychiatry, psychology, social work, therapeutic communities
Asylum to Action offers an alternative history of a libertarian therapeutic community at Paddington Day Hospital in West London in the 1970s. Helen Spandler recaptures the radical aspirations, as well as the conflicts, of the early therapeutic community movement, radical psychiatry and the patients' movement. more »
2006, Paperback: £25.00/ $41.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-348-6, royal, 176pp
Keywords: mental health, psychiatry, therapeutic communities
Based on work carried out by staff at the Cotswold Community over a number of years, Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatised Children and Young People provides a clear and comprehensive link between theory and practice. The author shows how practice in the field of residential child care, fostering and other areas of work with children can be developed in a way that is soundly based... more »
2004, Paperback: £19.99/ $33.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-187-1, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 224pp
Keywords: child protection, child psychiatry, child psychology, community care, counselling, residential care, safeguarding children, social work, therapeutic communities, trauma, youthwork
Research is an increasing priority for workers throughout the mental health sector, and therapeutic communities are no exception. Those working in TCs increasingly have to justify the success and efficiency of their methods to outside bodies, and the prime means of doing so is through research. This volume collects a wide range of papers by experienced contributors discussing all aspects of... more »
2003, Paperback: £22.99/ $38.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-857-1, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 336pp
Keyword: therapeutic communities
From the 1950s onwards different movements, ideas and key figures have contributed to the emergence of the initiative which is now recognised as Therapeutic Communities. This book follows these post-war changes (such as 'libertarianism' and the 'open door movement') through to the present day and discusses the influence they had on the practice of psychiatry and the... more »
2003, Paperback: £19.99/ $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-128-4, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 176pp
Keyword: therapeutic communities
Whilst there is now a growing canon of literature on Therapeutic Communities both in general and in different contexts, relatively little has been written about TCs for children and young people. This book tackles the subject directly, providing a perspective that focuses on the institutional context in which therapeutic work takes place and the theories and principles that underpin these... more »
2003, Paperback: £24.99/ $42.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-096-6, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 336pp
Keywords: adolescence, child protection, children, safeguarding children, social care, teenagers, therapeutic communities
Beginning with their first meeting in 1956 and ending with Maxwell Jones' death in 1990, A Life Well Lived follows the growth of a friendship between two key figures in social psychiatry and tracks the evolution of therapeutic communities from their experimental beginnings to the established practices that exist today. As a close friend and frequent collaborator, Briggs is able to recount in... more »
2002, Paperback: £18.99/ $34.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-740-8, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 208pp
Keywords: memoirs, psychiatry, therapeutic communities
