JKP and Authors attend the World Congress of Music Therapy in Seoul, South Korea
Last week JKP exhibited at the World Congress of Music Therapy at Sookmyung Women’s University in Seoul, South Korea. This conference takes place every three…
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JKP attends the NAS ‘Understanding and Managing Challenging Behaviour’ Conference in London
JKP attended The National Autistic Society’s conference on Understanding and Managing Challenging Behaviour held at Kensington Town Hall in London on the 6th July. The…
Stop by the JKP stand for Author Booksignings at the 42nd Autism Society Conference!
This week JKP is excited to be attending the 42nd Autism Society National Conference and Exposition this week in Orlando, Florida. Visit the JKP stand (#301-303)…
From Anxiety to Meltdown – An Interview with Deborah Lipsky
“once people understand meltdown triggers and why they occur the enviroment can be modified to help reduce the number of meltdowns. And more compassion instead of critism can be offered to us because we feel awful afterwards; feelings of remorse and regret are common because we didn’t want it to occur. It isn’t like we have a “quota” of so many meltdowns we need to have in a day. It just happens due to overwhelming factors beyond our (the autistic person’s) control.”
JKP Books Honoured in ForeWord Magazine’s 2010 Book of the Year Awards!
We are thrilled to announce that several JKP books have been honoured in ForeWord Magazine’ Book of the Year Awards, which were established to bring increased…
Understanding Crisis Therapies – An Interview with Dr Hilda Loughran
“I’d like to think that balancing the individual and social approaches to crisis does offer something special at a time when people may be so burdened by stressful/crisis situations that they may take too much on themselves. This book really emphasises the idea that crises happen in a social context, that social supports can mitigate the devastating effects of a traumatic event and that a lack of social support can make even a simple problem seem insurmountable.”
60 Social Situations and Discussion Starters to Help Teens on the Autism Spectrum Deal with Friendships, Feelings, Conflict and More
“I think parents are a key component to teens understanding the social puzzle. No one knows a child better than their parent and every family has its own set of values. If parents work together with their teens it will not only bring guidance to the teen but also insight to the parent on how their teen thinks. Parents can guide their teen to responses that are acceptable within their own family values.”
What Teachers Need to Know about Asperger Syndrome – An Interview with Matt Winter and Clare Lawrence
“…I just could not believe how much information I had to read through to gain useful approaches for working with children in the education setting. I just knew that during my time as a classroom teacher I would never have had the luxury of completing this much reading for just one of my students and I became determined to distil down what I had learnt into a quick access guide for teachers.”
Risk Assessment and Management for Living Well with Dementia – An Interview with author Charlotte Clarke
“People with dementia continue to have decisions about them made by other people who bring to that decision their own views of safety and risk – these can be very profound decisions such as where someone will live in the future. It continues to be essential to develop services that respect the views of people living with dementia so that the care they receive is of high quality (and this is not necessarily care that is ‘risk free’).”
The Reverend Albert Jewell answers one JKP Reader’s Questions about his latest book, Spirituality and Personhood in Dementia
This month, we offered one of our readers a chance to preview a copy of the Revd Jewell’s latest JKP title, Spirituality and Personhood in Dementia, and ask him some questions about it: “Q: To what extent and how far has your exploration of dementia enhanced your understanding of spirituality? A: …People with dementia in the main live in the present moment because the past tends to get dismantled. To be able to live fully in the present, rather than be bugged by the past or worried about the future, is a great gift and one I covet…”