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No Author Listed, Sally Nash, Carolyn Edwards, Sian Hancock
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Drawing on current scholarship and research by authors with experience of a range of International contexts who are experts in their field, this accessible guide focuses on approaches that encourage spiritual, physical, mental and emotional development in children.
By outlining a range of lenses through which readers can reflect on their ministry with children and their families. this book offers inspiration to help them improve their practice. Up-to-date research and thinking provides a fresh and flexible understanding of work with children and families. It also prepares readers to develop and support a team that can take responsibility for the key areas needed in an effective children’s ministry.
With each chapter featuring practice examples, relevant theory, theological reflections, opportunities for contemplation and suggestions for further reading, Re-Thinking Children’s Work in Churches is an accessible and indispensable guide for those wishing to focus on the holistic development of the child.
Making Sense of Children’s Thinking and Behavior offers parents and professionals a tool for understanding children with neurological differences. These children have an atypical view of the world, unique to their particular disability, which can make their behavior confusing and, at times, challenging. Often, the child’s actions are misunderstood and, consequently, they are unfairly punished.
An individualized approach to understanding a child’s thought processes can help to resolve these problems. The authors’ Systematic Tool for Analyzing Thinking (STAT) offers such an approach. It provides a step-by-step method for understanding a child’s behavior by revealing the thought processes behind it. By viewing a situation from the child’s perspective, the root of the problem can be identified and one can then effectively address the difficult behavior. Case studies are used to describe the twelve common deficit areas, demonstrating to the reader how to apply the STAT in everyday situations.
This practical book is an invaluable resource for parents and professionals working with children with NLD, Asperger’s, HFA, PDD-NOS, and other neurological differences.
Children experience death differently from adults and therefore need different kinds of help when they are bereaved. Understanding Children’s Experiences of Parental Bereavement is a highly practical book for teachers and parents that explains how best to help and support a child whose parent or carer has died. The guidelines are based on the author’s experience of work with child bereavement or loss, especially in schools, and of his research in this area. Project Iceberg involved adults who had been through the experience of bereavement while at school and looked retrospectively at the usefulness or otherwise of adult interventions at the time. The book includes discussion of such topics as funerals and the significance of rituals, as well as the importance of a careful transition back to school and of effective communication.
As well as offering valuable insight into the impact of death on children, the author provides practical guidelines for how teachers and parents can better support children through the first stages of parental bereavement while they are at school.
Parental Learning Disability and Children’s Needs explores how to effectively assess children in families where one or more parent has a learning disability. These children often have unmet needs because their parents are more likely to be coping with mental and physical illness, domestic violence or substance abuse.
The book examines current social care practice in this area, whether it is working, and the impact it has on families. The authors describe how, although some parents with a learning disability face a significant risk of losing their children, most continue to look after them and, while support provided by social services and other agencies, can be significant it is rarely sustained and the health and welfare of many children suffers as a result. Case studies and interviews from original research support the authors’ recommendations for policy and practice to combat these problems.
This book will prove to be an invaluable source of information for all social workers and other professionals working with someone who is both a parent and has a learning disability.
Care services for children depend on a limited supply of resources; it is vital that these are used to best effect. This book considers the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of these services and their contribution to children’s well-being.
The book presents the findings of a set of original research studies. It looks at services provided by the statutory, for-profit and voluntary sectors, examining the way they are delivered and how resources are distributed. It examines the cost of providing particular services, the extent to which they improve outcomes for children and the degree to which they can be considered cost-effective. It explores what changes can and should be made to improve efficiency, paying particular attention to the possible contributions of early intervention and better co-ordination. From the research findings, Jennifer Beecham and Ian Sinclair draw key messages for practice for the use of resources and for future research in this area.
This is an invaluable book for those practitioners, policy makers, managers, who are concerned with social care services for children.
Dear God, Why did you make elephants such a funny shape? Love Wendy
A wonderful collection of heartwarming letters written by children from different backgrrounds around the world. With great candour and sincerity the children ask questions, make suggestions and even offer advice.
Dear God is a charming antidote to cynicism. The letters are by turns funny, touching, joyful and heartbreaking. The end result is a fascinating tour of the minds of young children.
The magical story of Dorothy’s adventures when a tornado transports her to the land of Oz. Wishing to return home, Dorothy and her dog travel along the Yellow Brick Road to find the Wizard of Oz to help them. On her way she meets a Scarecrow who wishes for a brain, a Tin Man who wants a heart, and a Cowardly Lion who desperately needs courage.
They all hope the Wizard of Oz will help them – but first they have to escape the wicked West Witch.
The adventures of Huck after his escape from his brutal father, and his growing friendship with Jim, the slave who is also on the run. As they journey down the Mississippi, their wit and courage are all they have to help them escape their pursuers.
Charles Dickens’ famous tale of an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who has devoted his life to becoming wealthy. he values nothing apart from money – neither friendship, love nor enjoyment. But one night before Christmas, Scrooge receives some unexpected anad ghostly visitors who try to change his mind…
Mole enjoys a quiet life but when spring comes, his longing for adventure takes him to the river. There, he meets Water Rat and his friends Otter, Badger and Toad. With messing about in boats and Toad’s love of fast cars, Mole’s life is no longer quiet – especially when the friends have to join forces against the animals from the Wild Wood.
The exciting adventures of d’Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer – one of King Louis’ expert swordsmen – in Paris. D’Artagnan becomes an inseperable friend of the three dashing musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis, and with them lives by their motto, “All for one and one for all”.
When Duchess has a new foal, he is so handsome that he’s named Black Beauty. As he grows up, Beauty gallops happily in meadows and works hard for his kindly master. When his owner has to sell him, Black Beauty discovers a world of cruelty and danger – but his brave spirit makes him determined to survive.
Second left – and then straight on until morning: that’s the way to the magical place where Peter Pan lives, a land where no one ever grows up. Helped by fairy Tinkerbell, Wendy and her brothers fly off with Peter to Neverland. There, they meet the Lost Boys – and the terrifying Captain hook and his band of pirates.
Beauty’s merchant father promises to brign her a rose as a gift from his travels. On his journey home, he takes shelter in a mysteriously deserted castle and picks a rose from the garden. The Beast appears – he will spare the life of the merchant only if he sends Beauty to live in the castle. As time passes, Beauty gets used to the Beast’s appearance and their friendship develops…
Arianne, a young mermaid princess, falls in love with a human prince and dreams of life on land. She seeks out the sea witch so as to have the chance to win the prince’s heart – but the sea witch’s magic potion comes at a high price.
Always loyal to his king, Richard the Lionheart, Robin Hood follows him to fight the crusades in the Holy Land. Captured and imprisoned, Robin and the ever-faithful Will dream of returning home to live in peace. Surviving pirates, prison and shipwreck, they do return to England – only to find another fight, this time against the wicked prince who has stolen the Lionheart’s throne.
One day Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole and finds herself in the topsy-turvy world of Wonderland. Animals talk; Alice shrinks smaller than a mouse and grows taller than a tree; there’s a grinning cat – and Alice goes to the strangest tea party you could ever imagine.
A tiny baby boy is rescued by wolves from the fearsome tiger, Shere Khan. The wolves name the boy Mowgli and raise him as one of their own cubs in the Indian jungle, with the help of Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther.
But Shere Khan never forgets his loss and many years later, Mowgli has to face him again…
We may be overvaccinating our children today. Once considered a godsend, vaccines are now felt by some to be associated with dramatic increases in autism, asthma, diabetes, learning disabilities and ADHD. Now, revised and updated to include all of the latest studies, legislation and overall information concerning the risks and safety of children’s vaccinations, this bestselling book offers vital, down-to-earth advice on this important topic. It will tell you which vaccines may be risky and what to consider to help safley vaccinate your children. Written by an expert on pediatric vaccinations, this book arms you with:
• Updated advice on when and how to give children vaccinations • New vital information on vaccines for hepatitis A, pneumococcal disease, meningococcal disease, influenza, rotavirus, human papilloma virus and those administered for travel abroad • Research and safety track records for various shots • Precautions parents can take when their children get vaccinated, including the use of natural supplements and vitamins • “Parents’ Bill of Rights,” which spells ways parents can best advocate for their children when it comes to vaccinations
Examining the assessment of need in children’s services this book addresses the full spectrum of practice, policy and research developments in the field. The contributors include leading academics, policy makers and senior practitioners who generate a broad-based holistic approach to the assessment of children in need. They show how needs assessment in children’s services can be used to tackle problems such as low achievement, mental ill-health and social exclusion at both individual and strategic levels.
Approaches to the Assessment of Need in Children’s Services will enable service managers and practitioners to respond effectively to the increasing pressure to monitor outcomes and effectiveness in child care work, and to improve and coordinate children’s welfare service provision at individual and community levels and provides an indispensable overview and analysis for anyone working or studying in child welfare and social care.
Parent-focused interventions impact primarily on families living in disadvantaged communities, but there has been relatively little research into the challenges of bringing up children in these environments.
Parenting and Children’s Resilience in Disadvantaged Communities explores how families living in these communities manage parent-child relationships during the middle childhood. Based on two linked studies, it examines the experiences and perspectives of parents and children living in disadvantaged communities in the West of Scotland, and highlights their points of view on the stresses and risks they face and the ways in which they deal with them.
This book offers insights for practitioners and policy-makers working in parenting, social exclusion and young people.
“This is such a great book for primary school age children and a little beyond for finding out about the world, its countries and people” Amazon customer review
– Philip’s atlas, designed specially to use at home and at school with guidance for parents and teachers
– Clear maps and fascinating facts bring geography to life for readers aged 7-12
– Published by Philip’s the UK’s leading school atlas publisher, in association with the Royal Geographical Society – Quizzes, activity ideas and puzzles to make learning fun
– Past winner of the Geographical Association’s award for making a significant contribution to geography
The atlas is organized spread by spread in the classic sequence: first Europe, then its land neighbour Asia, followed by Africa, Australia and Oceania, North America and South America.
Illustrated with captivating full-colour photographs and packed with fact boxes, curiosities, flags, stamps and quiz questions, Philip’s RGS Children’s Atlas is both fun to use and easy to understand.
Now in its 16th edition, Philip’s RGS Children’s Atlas is a past winner of the Geographical Association’s award for making a significant contribution to geography. The atlas was judged “an excellent ‘all round’ children’s atlas with simple yet well-designed maps, well-illustrated with colour photographs. It links places to issues, events and real people, giving a clear sense of place.”
This concise, accessible handbook for families, friends and carers of children with seizures provides all the information they need to approach seizures from a position of strength.
Part 1 discusses types and causes of seizures, and what to do during a seizure. The medical concepts and technical terminology as well as the available tests and treatments, including anticonvulsant medication, are clearly explained. The author also addresses some of the emotional and social issues that may arise, and there are chapters for kids and teens to read themselves or with their parents. Part 2 covers some of the most common epilepsy syndromes in more detail. Further reading and useful contacts are also provided.
This reassuring, informal, and upbeat book will reinforce and help clarify the discussion with the child’s treating medical professional.
Nine thousand years ago, the horses died, leaving the band of people called the Shahala hungry. Their Moonkeeper, Ashan, led them across the Tabu land, but ahead waited a woman with secrets that would destroy the love between Ashan and her mate.
