In an era filled with change, grief and trauma a revolutionary new approach for children emerges. "What's Dead Mean?" is a true activity book specially written to help children cope with death. This resource combines drawing and pasting with facilitated talking to help parents, teachers, child care workers, or indeed anyone faced with the challenge of communicating this vital, and often neglected, message to the young.
The resource evolved from a mothers own experience of managing how to tell her own child that her sibling had died. Feeling that she could have handled the situation differently the author has developed this resources to offer support to others who are working or living with children who have experienced a loss.
This is a new book by author of best selling series Fish!. A recent presenter at the Workforce Skills Council Innovation Conference in Brisbane, Lundin provides a new "take" on innovation. The Cats approach is about changing the focus from the abstract and the strategic to the personal and practical. More info
At the cutting edge of developments in counselling and psychotherapy theory research and practice, this book is relevant to a therapy which encompasses not only counselling and psychotherapy but also important aspects of social and community work, self-help and psychiatry. Narrative and Psychotherapy will be of particular value to students and practitioners in psychotherapy, clinical psychology and family therapy, as well as social scientists interested in narrative More info
Art Therapy with Children: From Infancy to Adolescence takes the reader through the child's development by describing the specialist work of the art therapist in each developmental stage. This passionate and exciting book demonstrates the wide theoretical base of art therapy presenting new areas of clinical practice. New to the literature is innovative work with mothers and babies, a study of the sibling bond in looked after children, trans-generational work in kinship fostering, gender disorder and multi-family work with anorexic young people. The detail of clinical process brings alive the significance of... More info
