Brain-Based Therapy with Children and Adolescents: Evidence-Based Treatment for Everyday Practice.
This book is designed for mental health professionals treating children and adolescents; it is a simple but powerful primer for understanding and successfully implementing the most critical elements of neuroscience into an evidence-based mental health practice. Written for counsellors, social workers, psychologists, and graduate students, this new treatment approach focuses on the most common disorders facing children and adolescents, taking into account the uniqueness of each client, while preserving the requirements of standardized care under evidence-based practice
Neuroscience and Social Work Practice offers the latest insights from neuroscience linking them to behaviour and demonstrates the significant social work benefits from social neuroscience that will help in coping with the serious problems that clients can be experiencing. *Key Features * Takes readers on a "tour of the brain" and makes dense scientific material more engaging Provides a framework for how human service professionals can understand and implement neuroscience clinical data with the use of the Transactional Model Uses case vignettes to explain how neuroscience findings have been... More info
In 1994, the genocide in Rwanda claimed over one million human lives. Today, Ibuka, the national survivors' association of Rwanda, has developed ways to respond. The Ibuka trauma counsellors have found ways to heal memories in the shadow of genocide. Together - and through their formal partnership with the Dulwich Centre Foundation International, based in Australia - they have developed local, innovative, culturally-appropriate methodologies, drawing on principles and practice of narrative therapy and community work. This publication documents the unique forms of therapeutic and collective practice that Ibuka workers are developing. It... More info
We live in a galaxy of strengths. The strengths that surround us are like the stars in the night sky. They are beautiful and intriguing, but have many uses too. 'Strengths to the Max' identifies 60 possible strengths which are illustrated by three stellar intergalactic personalities: Max, Maxine and Maximillian (the Third!). Our intrepid adventurers will take you on a voyage to the outer reaches of the universe to explore the strengths you already have, those that you may not have tried before, and those you feel a little... More info
