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This book looks at what it means to be an autistic parent, offering practical advice about how to overcome the challenges of parenting when you are autistic and the advantages that being autistic brings to raising children.

Autism and Eating Disorders in Teenagers explores the intersect of two areas that is often overlooked, underdiagnosed and misunderstood. Two experienced practitioners examine the need for change in current practice and policy, drawing on case studies to demonstrate how professionals and parents can empower this group to reach their full potential.

Providing support and guidance for families of trans people, this must-have workbook offers them a safe space to navigate their own journey. Through the use of exercises, quizzes and games, reflective questions, and personal anecdotes, parents have the opportunity to explore their own wants and needs.

This book is specifically aimed at Speech and Language Therapists and sets out a range of games, activities, frameworks and exercises to help them develop their skills for working with trans clients. It also focuses on the innovative approach of individual therapy and group therapy settings, which is important for optimising speech adaptation.

Solely written by trans people on the spectrum, this collection of personal stories foregrounds their own voices and experiences on a range of issues, such as coming out, access to healthcare, employment, relationships, parenting, violence and later life self-discovery among others.

Through 18 short chapters, this book offers insights to help improve your wellbeing. Based on the latest psychology research, each chapter teaches you a new hack to see your world in a new way and offers surprising and simple ways to influence and improve your wellbeing.

This book examines death and loss within Chinese medicine and related Taoist models, offering practical advice for working with frail or dying clients. It considers the different ways that practitioners may encounter death and includes appropriate exercises and meditations, as well as a model for teaching.

This straightforward, effective guide to parenting children recently diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder offers tried-and-tested techniques for busy parents to implement instantly. It improves parents' resilience and confidence and opens communication between parent and child by providing insight, empathy and information.

This illustrated punctuation workbook supports students with dyslexia, ADHD or other learning difficulties to develop punctuation skills via inquiry-based learning. The book encourages students to engage in active learning to make their own connections about tricky punctuation. It provides a wealth of fun ways to remember the required rules.

The ideal starting point for understanding therapeutic parenting. This fully illustrated guide uses straightforward language and cartoon strips to explain this parenting style, covering over 40 different common issues. The perfect resource for parents, teachers and other adults, whether completely new to therapeutic parenting, or more experienced.

After interviewing and receiving anonymous messages from women and men across the globe who have experienced sexual abuse and harassment, Maria Stoian has illustrated their experiences in this powerful collective graphic memoir to express the complex emotions felt by victims of sexual abuse and explore what needs to change.

This book addresses the concerns parents of autistic teenagers may have as their child transitions to adult life. It explores specific aspects of adult life such as independence, employment and social life, and offers practical solutions for common transition-related challenges such as finding suitable living arrangements and financial planning.

This activity book is designed to be used by children on the autism spectrum aged 4-8. The workbook introduces them to 6 'feelings' characters who help them to recognise and express different emotions to reduce anxiety. It is intended to be used with the accompanying guidebook, 10 Steps to Reducing Your Child's Anxiety on the Autism Spectrum.

Recognising, expressing and understanding emotions helps young children make sense of their life experiences. Children diagnosed with autism can have significant difficulties with recognising and processing emotions which can lead to high levels of anxiety as they struggle to make sense of the unpredictable world around them.The 'Fun with Feelings' programme is designed to help parents support their children with emotional regulation and to decrease anxiety. This guide is structured around 10 stages. The initial four stages prepare parents to implement the programme with their child. These stages help parents understand the causes of anxiety and provide practical strategies for creating a toolbox to reduce anxiety. The final six stages are used in conjunction with Having Fun with Feelings on the Autism Spectrum: A CBT Activity Book for Kids Age 4-8, allowing parents to support their child while working through the activity book.Written by world-leading experts in the field, 10 Steps to Reducing Your Child's Anxiety on the Autism Spectrum provides the steppingstones for parents of young children with autism to better understand their child's emotional skill set and empower them to understand and articulate their feelings.

This accessible guide for autistic children and teens is full of advice for coping successfully with bullying. It helps the reader understand what bullying is and debunks myths such as 'bullying makes you stronger'. It also lays out self-empowering strategies and practical tips on how to deal with situations where they are being bullied.

An interactive workbook full of activities to give young people aged 10+ the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to be an ally for their trans friends and family.

This book provides practical guidance for early years professionals and parents on supporting young children through change and transitions, including starting at nursery or school and changes to family life. It explains the importance of this for the child's wellbeing and development.

Complete guidebook for education professionals on how to create LGBT+ inclusive schools that benefit all students, families, and staff, and affirm LGBT+ identities, within the American K-12 education system.

A creative CBT workbook that helps adults explore issues around anger, based on prevalent CBT principles, for use as a standalone resource or alongside professional therapy. It explains the theories of CBT in an accessible way, and presents them in easy-to-use activity sheets, which can be written on, drawn on and coloured in.

Ananda Bhavanani and Lee Majewski present yoga and yoga therapy as a multifaceted approach to wellness, which includes the energetic, the emotional and the spiritual. The authors carefully clarify yogic concepts and explore how deep yogic work can be practically applied to a range of chronic conditions.

Practical self-help strategies for older individuals and their families to help slow the onset of Mild Cognitive Impairment. Includes activities, health and lifestyle changes, memory aids, therapies and technological aids. Also suitable for those with early stage dementia wishing to prevent the condition worsening.

Written by practitioners for practitioners, this helpful guide to implementing character education in schools uses the real-life successful model of Yeading Junior School to display how to develop virtue literacy, how to input new strategies and adapt the curricula and how to best support pupils to flourish in society.

When a parent transitions, the whole family transitions. Providing tips and advice, information on gender identity and transitioning, and a wealth of real-life stories, this book will guide you through your relative's transition, and your own.

Packed full of tried-and-tested activities and strategies that will empower children aged 7-11, this illustrated journal is perfect for developing resilience, confidence and a growth mindset. It offers kids a multitude of small changes they can make that will make a big difference in their day-to-day lives.

Describing the experience of acupuncture through the eyes of both practitioners and patients, this book shows how being attentive to all aspects of patients' lives uncovers the conditions for healing and affects the responses of both parties in pursuit of health and wellbeing.

This guide to self-regulation in children helps early years practitioners get to grips with child development through accessible theory, useful reflection tasks and practice ideas to try. It offers coping strategies to use with children in schools, at home and beyond.

This fun guide supports kids age 7-12 to take control of their own writing difficulties, through worksheets and activities for building strength, coordination and stamina. As their skills improve, so too will their confidence and attainment. Illustrated throughout and with a quiz and handy checklists to track progress.

Early trauma can often lead to sensorimotor underdevelopment in children. This book provides practical strategies for both identifying and remedying this particular type of underdevelopment, through the use of those physical activities which take place in normal, loving parent-child relationships.

This book facilitates and promotes the use of Chinese medicine to manage mind and emotion-related illnesses. It is divided into two parts with the first introducing the theory of Chinese medicine psychology, and the second acting as a guide to clinical practice.

Resilience can act as a protective armour to help us deal with life's toughest challenges. This book lays out 12 key areas that cover everything you need to unlock your resilience, based on therapies including CBT. Down-to-earth advice and simple exercises ensure your resilience develops to better cope with the stress of modern life.