There’s No Shame in Failure: Ilse Sand’s 7 Tips for Living a Life with Less Shame
There’s No Shame in Failure: Ilse Sand’s 7 Tips For Living a Life with Less Shame In this blog post, Ilse Sand, author of Confronting…
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From Hurt to Hope
From Hurt to Hope Mair Elliott reflects on the path to hopefulness, her role as a mental health advocate, and her inspiring new book ‘From…
Why do we need to look beyond ‘mental disorders’ when handling intense emotions?
Here Bridie Gallagher writes about why we need to explore beyond the ‘illness narrative’ to understand why people might feel the way they do.
What is Better Together?
Introducing our new mental health video and Q&A series… A video series from Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Sheldon Press and John Murray Learning What is it?…
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…
Books for a Challenging Year
The festive season isn’t always the easiest time of the year. It brings joy and lightness to many, but for others it can be stressful,…
The Trauma and Attachment-Aware Classroom: Tricky Curriculum
Rebecca Brooks is an adoptive parent, former teacher and Adoption UK’s Education Policy Advisor. Rebecca’s goal with The Trauma and Attachment-Aware Classroom was to write the book she wishes…
For Decades we’ve been Neglecting Birth Parents of Adopted Children
“Like a light in the Dark” A blog by Joanne Alper, Editor of new book – Supporting Birth Parents Whose Children Have Been Adopted. Sometimes when…
What does it take to be a really good listener?
Listening to patients at their end of life can be mentally, physically, and spiritually exhausting. Although often highlighted in books about hospice and palliative care,…
Explaining Terrorism to Children: What is Terrorism?
One thing is for sure, terror will strike again, and it will feature massively in the media. Children will see and hear about it and…