10 Resources for National Adoption Month
November is National Adoption Month in the US/CAN. During National Adoption Month, organizations, social workers, adoption specialists, and more work to raise awareness and achieve…
Category: Social work
Seven Resources for Stress Awareness Day
November 2 is National Stress Awareness Day! Jessica Kingsley publishes tons of mental health resources each year, including stress, anxiety, and fear-related ones. Below are…
Making Sense of Meltdowns with Riley the Brave
This blog post was written by JKP author Jessica Sinarski. How learning about sensory processing changed… everything. My brilliant little 4-year-old son was asked to…
Help Children and Adolescents Heal with These Resources from Dawn D’Amico
In this blog, Dawn D’Amico speaks about her inspiration for writing Conversation-Starters for Working with Children and Adolescents After Trauma and about her work helping…
Anxiety and Autism
Drawing on the author’s extensive clinical and research experience in the fields of anxiety and autism new book Helping Autistic Teens to Manage their Anxiety…
At Christmas most families are looking forward to making memories. But what if you literally can’t?
At Christmas most families are looking forward to making memories. But what if you literally can’t? On Christmas Day 2016, the Jessops were just an…
Manual Handling in Health and Social Care, Second Edition – Michael Mandelstam
Why write a 2nd edition of this book 19 years after the 1st? It may have taken a long time, but the answer is simple.…
Our Autistic Daughter’s Struggle to be Understood
Our Autistic Daughter’s Struggle to be Understood Why Can’t You Hear Me? is the story of Colette McCulloch, an extraordinary young woman, her struggles with…
Therapeutic Parenting Essentials: Moving From Trauma to Trust
Who is this book for? Sarah Naish: The purpose of this story is to help all therapeutic parents who are raising children who have experienced…
Someone to Safeguard: How Safeguarding Can Go Wrong
An excerpt from Chapter 6 of Social Work, Cats and Rocket Science. ‘Find me somebody to love’, a lyric from the band Queen. A lyric which…