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A lesbian self-help guide with chapters on coming out, enjoying a healthy sex life, navigating your sexuality in the workplace, building a queer community, and managing toxic positivity in LGBT+ spaces.

Drawing on evidence-based therapeutic approaches, this doodling workbook helps children aged 8+ explore and understand their feelings of sadness and work towards building more happiness in their lives. Children can complete the tasks by themselves or with guidance from the adults supporting them.

From the winners of the JKP Writing Prize, this anthology of stories speaks to the humanity and bravery found in resistance against racism and the various ways it can manifest. Spanning generations, cultures, and communities, these prize-winning personal essays explore what it means to reclaim identity through personal, heartfelt resistance.

This book is a comprehensive guide to the most up-to-date assessment and treatment methods that form the cornerstone of manual therapy. Complete with step-by-step instructions and detailed illustrations, this best-practice guide is essential reading for both practitioners and students across manual therapy looking to elevate their practice.

Laura Kate Dale and 15 contributors from across the world open the door and look in on the candid, intimate moments that celebrates what it means to feel autistic joy.

A beautifully illustrated children's book celebrating PRIDE FAMILIES written by LGBTQ+ writer Amie Taylor.

Explore how you can become a neurodiversity affirming clinician. With advice onpresuming competence,self-advocacy and reframing behaviours, this book offers everything you need tostart implementing neurodiversityaffirming protocols into your practice.

A comprehensive guide to delivering psychoeducation interventions for ADHD, written by an experienced consultant psychiatrist.

A professionals' guide to understanding and better identifying diverse autistic presentations, with chapters covering autistic diagnosis in BAME communities, misdiagnosis and the criminal justice system, the issue of misidentifying fabricated or induced illness, and the controversial and overlapping diagnoses of PDA, ODD, ASPD and BPD.

A practical, holistic approach to supporting the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people with learning difficulties in educational settings with easy-to-implement strategies and downloadable reflective worksheets.

A practice guide and training framework for using music therapy best practices in senior care settings. Includes a teaching introduction to using music therapeutically, as well as specific applications for dementia, cognitive fitness, behavioural health, mental health, and speech and movement rehabilitation.

Fuelled by personal experience and interviews with clinicians and families, this compassionate book explores the realities of caring for a child with complex medical needs. It provides a vital insight into different parents' experiences to help medical professionals understand the roots of conflict and work with families to support patients.

Surviving Transphobia is an inspiring collection of essays by transgender and nonbinary experts and celebrities. We tell you our histories, reveal our vulnerabilities, share our strategies to remain determined in bleak times, and offer loving support as you brave agony and seek joy.

Stretched to the Limits is the first book to detail the effects and implications of hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome for pregnancy, birth and postnatally. It will empower midwives, doulas and their clients to advocate for the most informed and highest quality of care on that journey to parenthood.

This is a key resource for practitioners looking to develop their clinical application of Chinese tongue diagnosis in a post-antibiotic era. Based on Classical texts with modern translations and Solos's decades of experience, it provides practical and accessible guidance on how to recognise and manage modern diseases through tongue diagnosis.

This evidence based and practical guide demonstrates the benefits allied health practitioners are seeing from taking therapy outside, and the reasons doing so can help clients of all generations. Resources are provided to make the process as simple and accessible as possible, empowering therapists to bring nature into their practice.

The Vagus Nerve in Therapeutic Practice explains the importance and benefits of self-regulating the nervous system, focusing on the vagus nerve. The author addresses the anatomy and evolution of the vagus nerve, and describes practical, evidence-based methods to stimulate it, giving practitioners the tools to assist their clients in myriad ways.

Taste, touch, sight, smell, and sound are the five senses we all know about. But did you know there are three more? And they're very important. This activity filled workbook for 7-12-year-olds teaches kids all about sensory processing, the effects it has on how they feel and how to identify the right kind of sensory input to feel better.

Exploring childhood perfectionism, The Elf, The Princess and the Impossible Shoe sees a shoemaker elf tasked with making a pair of shoes for the Princess. Through the elf's fear that the shoes won't be perfect and the pressure she puts on herself, the story offers children aged 5+ skills to understand and overcome their perfectionist feelings.

This book helps practitioners support parents during the perinatal period by supporting them to maintain good health. Practitioners, parents and grandparents need to be aware of the risk factors for anxiety and depression, understand how signs and symptoms may present and have the knowledge to know how to offer help and support.

Covering the fundamental principles of art therapy informed activities, this easy-to-use resource delves into the importance and usefulness of art in early childhood development to heal trauma. Full of practical activities, techniques and downloadable lesson plans, this resource is ready for use in your educational and therapeutic environments.

Making Connections with Vulnerable Children and Families is the practical go-to resource for practitioners looking to build effective relationships and engage meaningfully with vulnerable children and their families.Compiled by Jan Horwath, lead editor of the bestselling child protection handbook The Child's World, the text features a wealth of clear, user-friendly, creative materials. The tools draw on evidence-based research and have been developed and tested by frontline practitioners from a range of disciplines working in Rochdale. Each tool includes a practice example as well as detail about aims, method, things to think about and possible adaptations. The tools can be used in a variety of work settings and the downloadable, versatile resources are all designed to support a relational approach to practice.These tools will help you establish relationships with both children and their primary carers, understand their lived experience and the impact of this on the health and well-being of the child or adolescent. Additional tools are included for use with parents and primary carers to explore parenting capacity and the socio-economic factors that influence family life.

This engaging and practical book clearly explains how Chinese shamanism can be seamlessly woven into modern lifestyles and contemporary medical practices. By providing effective diagnostic tools and techniques including visualisations, verbal healing and shamanic drumming, this book addresses the body, mind and spirit for a whole-person approach.

In this guide to grief, creative therapy exercises frame emotions and experiences as objects filling an invisible backpack, helping children to visualise the weight of bereavement and build emotional resilience to cope. Guidance for adults helps them process their own feelings to avoid burnout while supporting bereaved children.

This is a comprehensive and accessible guide that takes a compassionate, person-centred approach to weaning which accounts for the complex emotional and physical challenges mothers may face during this process. It empowers parents to make informed, confident decisions that keep both parent and child wellbeing at heart.

This is an enlightening anthology of 16 interviews conducted with occupational therapists from around the world who share their personal reflections and challenges in occupational therapy within different cultural and political contexts. It encourages global cultural awareness and nurtures a sense of connection with practitioners around the world.

This is a pioneering and authoritative text for yoga practitioners offering a comprehensive overview of postpartum conditions and how yoga therapy can be best utilised to help the postpartum healing journey. Complete with downloadable classes and worksheets this is a must-have resource for yoga therapists interested in women's health.

This contemporary manual offers comprehensive guidance on the complex practice of Nada Yoga, also known as the Yoga of Sound. It approaches the topic in a contemporary, multimedia manner that combines both traditional teachings with modern science allowing students to have a complete understanding of the principles and practice of Nada Yoga.

This is an essential and accessible guide for occupational therapists looking to develop key skills in housing adaptations and assessments. Packed with evidence-based research, practical activities, case studies, and digital resources, this is a must-have resource for OTs looking to develop a key area of practice.

This comprehensive guide helps all birthing and healthcare professionals vastly improve their care and knowledge of autistic pregnant women. It takes a distinctly intersectional and accessible approach to a topic often overlooked and includes management approaches and tools for birth professionals, autistic pregnant people, and their families.