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What Do You See?
Phenomenology of Therapeutic Art Expression
Mala Betensky
The author presents a varied menu of ideas and experiences in many areas - in research, in diagnosis, and in psychotherapy, each using art media with patients of all ages. She integrates art, phenomenology and gestalt psychology, describing specific techniques and findings. The book is for art therapists and advanced students. Learn More1995, 280pp -
The Abuse of Older People
A Training Manual for Detection and Prevention Second Edition
Jacki Pritchard
The second edition of this has been enlarged and completely updated. Based on extensive research and practical experience, the book is designed to be used by both professionals and students to enable them to develop the awareness and skills necessary to deal with the wide variety of issues involved in the abuse of older people. Learn More1995, 200pp -
Project-Based Group Work Facilitator's Manual
Young People, Youth Workers and Projects
Andy Gibson and Gaynor Clarke
This book is intended to help youth workers to develop the skills, knowledge and confidence to work successfully and creatively with groups of adolescents and young adults. It explores how skills are learnt, how values, and understandings are developed and how projects can enhance this process. It also shows how these things can happen in practice. Learn More1995, 200pp -
Children with Language Impairments
An Introduction
Morag L. Donaldson
This book is an important summary of current awareness of language impairments in children. It is argued that approaches to intervention need to be geared to the strengths and weaknesses of the individual child and therefore that they must be closely integrated with thorough, ongoing assessment procedures. Learn More1995, 144pp -
Psychosis
Understanding and Treatment
Edited by Jane Ellwood
Bringing together a number of pioneering thinkers and workers ni the field of psychosis, this book provides an interrogation of 'official theories' surrounding schizophrenia and examines the range of ways in which psychosis can be thought about and worked with. Learn More1995, 224pp -
Dramatic Approaches to Brief Therapy
Edited by Alida Gersie
Written by the directors of the world's major training programmes in dramatherapy, this book presents their approach to and theory of brief dramatherapy, which is offered in treatment settings for acute or chronic in-patient populations and out-patient or community health settings with a maintenance, rehabilitation or personal development purpose. Learn More1995, 320pp -
Child Play
Its Importance for Human Development
Peter Slade
This comprehensive book explores theories and practice of play. It suggests that media influences have a profound effect on behaviour, and by stressing the importance of understanding play as a chart of development, and drawing links between home, school, clinics and therapy, he offers the prospect of an understanding of delinquency and difficulty. Learn More1995, 400pp -
The Cradle of Violence
Essays on Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Literature
Stephen Wilson
This collection of essays focuses on the unconscious roots of human behaviour in a range of settings: the consulting room, the small group, the workplace, the therapeutic community and the GP's surgery. The author observes that in violence there is an attack not only on the victim, but on the perpetrator's own universe of meaning and value. Learn More1995, 176pp -
Social Work and Assessment with Adolescents
Ruth Sinclair, Louise Garner and David Berridge
This ebook illustrates the day to day work of providing social services to adolescents: it describes the context of that task, its complexities, it's limitations, some of its successes and failings. Learn More1995, Ebook, PDF, 334pp, £6.00ISBN: 9781907969119 -
Invisible Victims
Crime and Abuse Against People with Learning Disabilities
Christopher Williams
Invisible Victims outlines the range and nature of crimes against people with learning difficulties, and the way the law does - or should - relate to these crimes. It discusses the sources of victimization and deals with prevention specifically from the perspective of learning disabilities. Learn More1995, 160pp