What to look forward to in 2014?
It’s January, for some of us this is a time of hibernation – preserving energy and warmth after a busy Christmas. For Suzie Franklin and…
Category: Social work
Assessing emotional awareness after trauma
This extract taken from Clinical Exercises for Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents by Damion J. Grasso gives practical guidance to assessing and enhancing…
How to manage adolescent anger
Help adolescents identify the early warning signs of anger and how to express it with these practical worksheets taken from Adolescent Volcanoes by Warwick Pudney…
Helping people through the holidays.
In this blog post, John Wilson, bereavement counsellor and author of Supporting People through Loss and Grief, shares some thoughts on how grieving people can cope…
Incorporating creativity in supervision
Anna Chesner, co-author of Creative Supervision Across Modalities, explains why using creativity in supervision sessions can benefit both the supervisor and supervisee, and gives her…
How well do you know yourself?
We make assumptions about ourselves all the time, but how much do we really know? As Gillie Bolton says in the opening chapter of her…
Delivering continuous e-safety support to prevent online bullying
To mark Anti Bullying Week 2013 (18th – 22nd November), JKP author Adrienne Katz discusses how online bullying can be prevented with more effective e-safety…
Enhancing working relationships – an extract from ‘Mindful Co-working’
In this extract from Mindful Co-working, author and training consultant Clark Baim explains how leadership teams can introduce mindful co-working practices to their organisations through leading…
The realities of adoption – an extract from ‘No Matter What.’
In this extract from the inspirational adoption memoir, No Matter What, author Sally Donovan shares the reality of parenting children who have experienced abuse and…
‘Why Can’t My Child Behave?’ author Dr Amber Elliott on how she came to write a parenting manual for adoptive and foster parents.
Dr. Amber Elliott, author of Why Can’t My Child Behave? talks about how she became motivated to start her own company to support looked-after…