How to build confident and compassionate dementia care teams
Luke Tanner, author of Embracing Touch in Dementia Care, writes here about the importance of touch and physical contact when caring for someone living with…
Category: Social work
The importance of positive communication for older adults
Robin Dynes, author of ‘Positive Communication: Activities to reduce isolation and improve the wellbeing of older adults’ explains the reasoning behind his book. We belong…
Anorexia and Obesity: Two of a Kind?
Dr Nicola Davies is a health psychologist, counsellor, and writer specialising in raising awareness about health, wellbeing and weight loss. She is a member of…
The Use of Play in Therapy
Dr Fiona Zandt has written the below article on the importance of play in therapy. Dr Fiona Zandt and Dr Suzanne Barrett, authors of Creative Ways…
The demand for new foster carers has never been greater
Andy Elvin, CEO of the UK’s largest adoption and fostering charity TACT, describes the immense contribution that foster carers make on a daily basis to…
Borderline Personality Disorder: One Step at a Time
Tracy Barker, author of A Sad and Sorry State of Disorder, is an expert by experience on how to live with and manage borderline personality disorder…
What is it like from a birth parent’s perspective to have your children living in foster care?
In this extract from Welcome to Fostering, Annie describes what it is like from a birth parent’s perspective to have your children living with foster…
Peace Inside: How meditation can transform your mental health
Sam Settle, editor of Peace Inside, examines how the time tested practice of meditation – sitting in silence and paying attention to the breath –…
How important is empathy within our care system?
Bo Hejlskov Elvén is a Clinical Psychologist, and author of Frightened, Disturbed, Dangerous?, Disruptive, Stubborn, Out of Control?, Confused, Angry, Anxious? and Sulky, Rowdy, Rude?, based…
When did it all go wrong between social work and the media?
To mark JKP’s 30th anniversary year, Martin Barrow discusses the relationship between social work and the media, and the negative impact it has on society’s…