Books
In this section you will find books written by a range of experience practitioners which provide guidance and ideas about how best to engage and motivate young people who are disaffected or disengaged from their schooling.
- Behaviour
- Schools
- Families
- Additional support
- Young people looked after
- Mental health
- Substance misuse
- Children's services
- Young people’s voices
Behaviour
In this section you will find book’s which deal specifically with how best to work with young people who have emotional and behaviour difficulties.
New! - 100 Ideas for managing behaviour
By Johnnie Young
This book deals with problems ranging from gaining the respect of pupils to dealing with serious problems such as fights in the classroom and coping with the effects of bullying.
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Interventions for Children at Risk of Developing Antisocial Personality Disorder
by David Utting, Helen Monteiro and Deborah Ghate
This book looks at interventions that range from low-key universal resources to far more intensive, multi-layered programmes – with the evidence about what works for each.
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Bully Blocking: Six Secrets to Help Children Deal with Teasing and Bullying
by Evelyn M. Field
This confidence-boosting book aims to help children overcome the damaging effects of teasing and bullying, and to develop practical skills and attitudes to improve their self-esteem and quality of life. This second edition of "Bully Blocking" (originally published under the title "Bully Busting") is based on Evelyn Field's 'Secrets of relating', a six-step model that has proved highly successful in her counselling work with young people.
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Special Educational Needs: Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
by Rob Long and Jonathan Fogell
This book includes chapters that cover behavioural difficulties in the school; management strategies at Stages 1, 2 and 3; sanctions and exclusion; statutory assessment; and whole school approaches.
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Working with Anger and Young People
by Nick Luxmoore
"Working with Anger and Young People" warns against 'quick fix' solutions to dealing with anger, and draws on the author's experiences of youth counselling and training workshops to propose helpful interventions for addressing anger effectively and moving on from it.
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Dealing with Disaffection: Young People, Mentoring and Social Inclusion
by Tim Newburn, Michael Shiner, Sylvie Groben and Tara Young
This book, based on a large-scale research study, examines the lives of a large group of 'disaffected' young people, and considers the impact that involvement in a mentoring programme had on them.
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Naughty Boys: Anti-social Behaviour, ADHD and the Role of Culture
by Sami Timimi
Boys in the West are being labelled as having psychiatric disorders, behaviour problems and special educational needs, and are receiving psychiatric drugs in ever-greater numbers. In this book, Dr Timimi argues that this crisis reflects a fundamental ambivalence that Western culture has toward children which affects boys in particular. Using material from diverse sources, the author shows how Western Society's political, social and economic value system is bad for families and children, and how positive alternatives can be found in non-Western traditions.
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The Bubblegum Guy: How to Deal with How You Feel
by Joost Drost
This resource for working with children with emotional and behavioural difficulties focuses on anger and its management, though it ranges more widely, exploring and developing various coping strategies. An introductory overview is followed by separate, succinct guidance for parents and teachers.
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An A to Z Practical Guide to Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
by Harry Ayers and Cesia Prytys
The aim of this practical and user-friendly A to Z handbook is to enable the interested reader to gain quick and easy access to entries relating to or associated with emotional and behavioural difficulties. It focuses on adult problems as well as those of children and adolescents.
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Child and Adolescent Behaviour Problems: A Multi-disciplinary Approach
by Carole Sutton
This handbook shows how professionals working in social work, health, education, and psychology can work together to provide an integrated service to children and adolescents. Outlining the challenges of working in a multi-disciplinary context, it provides key theoretical concepts and describes how to conduct joint assessments and design, deliver and evaluate interventions. Taking a life-span appraoch to working with children of all ages, from infants to adolescents, the key emphasis of the book is on the prevention of children's emotional and behavioural difficulties through effective inter-disciplinary working.
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Children with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties and Communication Problems: There Is Always a Reason
by Melanie Cross
Children and young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties (EBD) are far more likely to have communication problems than their peers. Melanie Cross shows how improving children's communication can also improve their behaviour and that speech and language therapy is an important, although often absent, service for children with EBD. With a range of strategies to help children and young people to develop their emotional and communicative skills, this accessible guide is an invaluable resource for speech and language therapists, social workers, teachers and other health professionals working with young people with emotional, behavioural and communication problems.
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Adolescent Problems: A Practical Guide for Teachers, Parents and Counsellors
by Doula Nicolson and Harry Ayers
This is a reference book on adolescent emotional and behavioural problems, covering a range of psychological theories and approaches in a readable style.
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Loving, Hating and Survival: Handbook for All Who Work with Troubled Children and Young People
forward by Simon Rodway and edited by Andrew Hardwick and Judith Woodhead
This book seeks to develop practice which tackles discrimination in all forms, focusing on the development of the reader's understanding of the nature and needs of troubled young people. The first part of the book addresses therapeutic themes, the second part goes on to explore, through case studies, the practical implementation of therapeutic conceptions, and in the third part the book applies the principles to the carer, the family, the group and the management of the whole.
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Supporting Staff Working with Pupils with SEBD: A Handbook
edited by Elizabeth Haworth
This volume is about how to support young people with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties.
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Barnardos - what works for troubled children?
This revised edition looks at developments in assessment, prevention projects and behavioural/cognitive interventions. It will be invaluable for front-line workers, social workers, teachers, health visitors, as well as managers and policy makers.
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Working Out Well: Effective Provision for Excluded Pupils
by Kay Kinder
This report offers a description and analysis of educational provision available for young people permanently excluded from school. It describes the work of multi-agency panels concerned with the educational placement post-exclusion; programmes of reintegration to mainstream school; and those initiatives that offer learning experiences.
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How to Manage Children’s Challenging Behaviour
edited by Bill Rodgers
All teachers face similar issues of behaviour, from calling out, interrupting, inappropriate loudness, through to more disturbing bullying, violence and behaviour disorders. This book addresses the issue of challenging behaviour and behaviour disorders in schools. It shows how teachers - in a supportive team - have made a significant difference to their students in terms of behaviour, attitude, self-esteem and peer acceptance.
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Challenging Behaviour: Teaching Children with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties in Primary and Secondary School Classrooms
by Sylvia McNamara and Gill Moreton
This new edition addresses the skills and strategies needed to support the emotional needs of pupils within the National Curriculum framework and school-improvement agenda. Many of the activities in the book have direct application in the curriculum for Personal, Social and Health education and Citizenship, and will support the whole class, not just those children identified as having behaviour difficulties.
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Scared of the Kids? Curfews, Crime and the Regulation of Young People
by Stuart Waiton
This book examines the way teenagers are increasingly presented as being at risk, or a risk to others, through the author's study of an estate in Glasgow in the UK. Waiton, a youth worker, argues that 'free play' (such as simply hanging out with friends in the street) is increasingly seen as fraught with risks of criminality and anti social behaviour. He also elaborates on how such exaggerated contemporary fears are codified and fuelled by curfew schemes and other initiatives.
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Schools
In this section you will find books which consider strategies for schools, and practitioners who support schools, attempting to engage with disaffected pupils.
New! - 1Nurture Groups in School and at Home: Connecting with children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties
By Paul Cooper and Yonca Tiknaz
This book explores the ways in which pupils with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties can be effectively engaged in schooling - either in school or at home. It explains the social and emotional underpinnings of learning and presents practical strategies for aiding engagement.
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Yeah Right! Adolescents in the Classroom (Building Success Through Better Behaviour)
By Rob Long
Is there more disruptive behaviour in schools today? The simple answer to this often asked question is probably yes. But the reasons lie more outside teenagers than inside. For too many teachers there can be an attitude of: 'I was a teenager once, therefore i know what it is like'. But we all develop in a unique time and the issues are unique to that period. Pressures differ, fears differ. There are times when schools are seen to be part of the problem rather than the solution. This book covers issues around: identity, autonomy, risk taking and self-esteem
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Motivation (Building Success Through Better Behaviour) (Paperback)
By Rob Long
Knowing how to interest and motivate pupils is a skill, which separates the 'great' teachers from the mediocre. This book will inform and inspire staff and give them confidence in dealing with pupils who are not naturally 'teacher pleasers'. It: explains how personality affects learning styles; suggests assessment tools and interventions; and shows how to reach the hard to teach.
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Placing Emotional Literacy at the Heart of the School Ethos
by Dr Steve Killick
Steve Killick’s work explains the importance of considering children's emotional life in school situations and gives practical skills to help nurture children's emotional development.
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Children at the margins: supporting children, supporting schools
Edited by Tom Billington and Michael Pomerantz
This book considers the tensions which result from trying to improve achievement in schools, reduce social exclusion and at the same time listen to the voices of children and young people. The contributors challenge theories and practices that serve to marginalise children and provide models of intervention and practice. Chapters examine classroom practice, children in care, multi-agency working, nurture groups and ADHD.
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Families
In this section you will find book’s which consider the most successful approaches to working with young people and their families.
New! – City Survivors: Bringing up children in disadvantaged communities
by Anne Power
The book provides a unique insider view on the impact of neighbourhood conditions on family life and explores the prospects for families from the point of view of equality, integration, schools, work, community, regeneration and public services.
New! – When your child is bullied
by Jenny Alexander
Jenny Alexander's book is full of empathy and ideas to make life more positive for the whole family. The Times Educational Supplement said: “There are dozens of books on bullying, This is one of the best”.
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The Idea of Poverty
By Paul Spicker
This book examines views about what poverty is and what should be done about it. 'Poverty' means many different things to different people - for example, material deprivation, lack of money, dependency on benefits, social exclusion or inequality. In The idea of poverty, Paul Spicker makes a committed argument for a participative, inclusive understanding of the term and what should be done about it.
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When Children Become Parents: Welfare State Responses to Teenage Pregnancy
by Anne Daguerre and Corinne Nativel (Editors)
Teenage parenthood is recognised as a significant disadvantage in western industrialised nations. It has been found to increase the likelihood of poverty and to reinforce inequalities. This book explores, for the first time, the links between welfare state provision and teenage reproductive behaviour across a range of countries with differing welfare regimes.
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Working with Parents of Young People: Research, Policy and Practice
edited by Debi Roker and John Coleman
This book presents a range of approaches to working with parents and families, and discusses the effectiveness of techniques such as parent mentoring and involving young people in parenting programmes.
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Parenting in Poor Environments: Stress, Support and Coping
by Deborah Ghate and Neal Hazel
The authors explore what professionals and policy-makers can do to assist families living in poverty. They examine community-level poverty and its relationship to familial and individual problems such as low income, mental ill-health and child behavioural difficulties - problems that those working with poor families need to understand.
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Enhancing the Well-being of Children and Families Through Effective Interventions: International Evidence for Practice
by Colette McAuley
An attractive feature of this book is its clear structure. Each chapter on interventions seeks to describe what the intervention consists of, the evidence available on its effectiveness, the limitations of that evidence, and implications for policy, practice and research.
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New Engaging with Fathers: Practice Issues for Health and Social Care
by Brigid Daniel
Fathers are often marginalised or ignored in child protection practice. This reflects an uncertainty within society as a whole about the role of fathers in their children's lives. This is a guide for practitioners on how to broaden their practice to include fathers and stepfathers, whether or not their behaviour is abusive or problematic.
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edited by Malcolm Hill
This text examines late-1990s evidence of which methods are the most successful forms of intervention when working with children and their families. It covers a wide range of approaches and services, with particular emphasis on methods designed to help children with identified problems. After discussing the principles, designs and debates associated with ideas of effectiveness and evidence, the text evaluates 1990s practice in child and family work, including: early years provision, family mediation, child and adolescent psychiatry, treatment for children who have been sexually abused, and work with foster children and their families.
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Additional support
In this section you will find books which look at the issue of working with young people with additional support needs.
New! - 100 Ideas for Supporting Pupils with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
By Roy Howarth
This practical guide provides those working with children suffering from SEBD ideas of how to support and develop their learning. It contains lists which range from creating a supportive learning environment for the pupil to developing effective classroom management techniques.
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New! - 100 Ideas for Supporting Pupils with ADHD
By Geoff D Kewley and Pauline Latham
This book contains lists covering the entire school age ranges with ideas from developing effective strategies to helping the child in the classroom to encouraging the progression of individual skills such as handwriting, comprehension processing tasks.
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Setting Up and Running a Peer Listening Scheme
by Kathy Salter Hampson
Here is the 'how to do it' guidance that will help busy practitioners to put in place something that really works.
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Children, Young People and Social Inclusion: Participation for What?
by John Davis, Malcolm Hill, Kay Tisdall (Editors)
Social inclusion and participation have become policy mantras in the UK and Europe. As these concepts are being translated into policies and practice, it is a critical time to examine - and challenge - their interpretation, implementation and impacts. This book asks how far and in what way social inclusion policies are meeting the needs and rights of children and young people.
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Critical New Perspectives on ADHD
edited by Gwynedd Lloyd, David Cohen and Joan Stead
There is little doubt that AD/HD is a twenty-first century global phenomenon, or that it is having a significant effect on the lives of children, parents and teachers worldwide. Reasons for the rise in diagnoses of the condition are debatable and contentious. This edited collection unpicks the myths surrounding AD/HD, and leaves no stone unturned in its search for answers.
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Special Educational Needs, Inclusion and Diversity: A Text book
by Norah Frederickson and Tony Cline
This book provides a comprehensive and detailed discussion of the major issues in special education. Whilst recognising the complex and difficult nature of many special educational needs, the authors place a firm emphasis on inclusion and suggest practical strategies enabling professionals to maximise inclusion at the same time as recognising and supporting diversity.
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Moderate Learning Difficulties and the Future of Inclusion
by Brahm Norwich and Narcie Kelly
The authors of this book have listened to and considered the perspectives of children with moderate learning difficulties in relation to: Their educational provision, their feelings about the labels that are used for them, issues around their identity and self-perception, the way they feel about social interaction and bullying. They raise issues about the extent of future inclusion for the remaining groups of pupils with MLD in special schools, and discuss various options for future policy and practice.
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Young people looked after
In this section you will find books which look at working with young people who are in the care system.
New! - Understand looked after children: An introduction to Psychology for Foster Care
By Jeune Guishard Pine et al
This book is an accessible guide to understanding the mental health needs of children in foster care and the role of foster carers and support networks in helping these children.
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New! - Residential Child Care: Prospects and Challenges
By Andrew Kendrick
This book draws on recent research to address key issues in residential child care policy and practice, offering guidance for developing best practice and improved outcomes for children and young people.
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Promoting Resilience: A Resource Book on Working with Children in the Care System
by Robbie Gilligan
This book is packed with practical ideas for how to improve the quality of life of children in care. It carries two key messages of hope: the lives of children can be made better and what social workers do – even the little things – can make a difference.
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Mental health
In this section you will find book’s which consider how best to help young people who have psychological and emotional difficulties. Specific attention is focused on building resilience in vulnerable young people.
Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile
by Daniel Nettle
Nettle summarises the various studies and statistics available on the subject of what make people happy. Importantly, he has a useful discussion on the types of happiness; feelings of joy, judging oneself to be happy, and realising one's potential.
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Helping Children to Build Self Esteem
By Deborah M. Plummer
This book is packed with fun effective activities to help children develop and maintain healthy self-esteem. New and updated material has been added including a section on running parent groups alongside children’s groups.
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Children's Thoughts and Feelings (Building Success Through Better Behaviour)
By Rob Long
Understanding how children think and feel is the key to building good relationships in the classroom. This book: shows the underlying causes of emotional conflicts; explains the nature of maladaptive coping mechanisms; talks about why boys tend to 'act out' and girls tend to 'act in'; and suggests interventions to promote the use of adaptive coping styles.
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Promoting Emotional Well Being of Children and Adolescents and Preventing Their Mental Ill Health edited
by Kedar Nath Dwivedi and Peter Brinley Harper
This comprehensive guide provides overviews of the key psychological processes affecting mental health, such as development, attachment, emotion regulation and attention, and draws out the implications for preventive measures and promotion of emotional well-being.
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By Their Own Young Hand: Deliberate Self Harm and Suicidal Ideas in Adolescents
by Keith Hawton
"By Their Own Young Hand" explores the findings of the first large-scale survey of deliberate self-harm and suicidal thinking in adolescents in the UK, and draws out the implications for prevention strategies and mental health promotion.
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Children in Difficulty: A Guide to Understanding and Helping
by Maurice Place and Julian Elliot
This book is designed as a guide for those who work with children. In clear, simple language it focuses upon some of the most common, yet often incapacitating, difficulties which are frequently encountered by young children and adolescents. It seeks to help the reader to understand the nature of each problem and offers a guide as to how the child in difficulty can best be helped. The book is designed to be of particular value to those working in education, social work, health and child-care settings, and anyone who needs to be able to recognize and help children in difficulty.
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Barnardos - what works in building resilience?
This book explores principles of resilience with extensive reference to published research. The weight of evidence suggests that incorporating resilience promoting strategies in services to children and young people can make a real difference. ‘What works in building resilience?’ will offer all professionals in social care invaluable information to enable them to identify and implement factors that promote resilience in all phases of the life cycle. Buy this book at
http://www.barnardos.org.uk/what_works_in_building_resilience__-_summary_1_.pdf
Assessing and Promoting Resilience in Vulnerable Children: School Years
by Brigid Daniel and Sally Wassell
Helping practitioners in their work with vulnerable children of a school-going age, this workbook explores ways of nurturing resilience in different aspects of everyday life. Focusing on specific areas such as home life, talents and interests, friendships and social competencies, the authors show how to make thorough assessments and intervene in constructive ways.
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Assessing and Promoting Resilience in Vulnerable Children: Adolescence
by Brigid Daniel and Sally Wassell
This practical resource for work with vulnerable adolescents shows ways of promoting resilience and encouraging pro-social behaviour. The authors discuss concerns pertinent to adolescence such as peer pressure and moral responsibility, drugs and sexual relationships, and suggest ways for practitioners to engage with and support young people who may have social or family problems.
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Supporting Pupils with Emotional Difficulties: Creating a caring environment for all
by Rob Long and Jonathan Fogell
This practical text explores children's emotional development and the correlation between emotional security and effective learning. The authors focus on a wide range of specific emotional issues, including coping with loss, separation, anxiety, panic and anger management. They discuss how to raise a child's self-esteem and motivation.
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Substance misuse
In this section you will find books which consider of substance misuse in young people.
New! - Child Protection, Domestic Violence and Parental Substance Misuse: Family Experiences and Effective Practice
By Hedy Cleaver et al
This book draws on a wide range of evidence to explore the facts about the relationship between substance misuse and domestic violence and their effect on children, and examines the response of children's services when there are concerns about the safety and welfare of children.
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Cannabis and Young People: Reviewing the Evidence
by Richard Jenkins
“Cannabis and Young People" aims to shed light on the current debates by reviewing all the available evidence on a range of issues relating to the use of cannabis among children and adolescents and summarizing the main conclusions in clear, jargon-free language.
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Children’s services
In this section you will find books which consider multi-agency work and the provision of effective children’s services.
Collaborative Advantage: How Organizations Win by Working Together: How Organisations Win by Working Together
by Elizabeth Lank
An old PINS theme! This book explores the structures, processes, roles, skills, tools and techniques that enable people in different places to achieve a successful joint outcome and build advantage through collaboration.
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Reflective Practice in Social Work
by Christine Knott
This book is informative and offers useful guidance to students to help develop their skills of reflection within social work practise.
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The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action
by Donald. A. Schon
The classic text.
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Family Support as Reflective Practice
by Pat Dolan, John Canavan, John Pinkerton (editors)
Family support is an increasingly important strategic approach to welfare services for children and families. This is a resource for all professionals engaged covers core issues in family support. These include the importance of community, the role of statutory and voluntary agencies, youth advocacy, culturally appropriate family support, child protection, disability services and effective means of evaluation.
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Reflective Practice to Improve Schools: An Action Guide for Educators: An Action Guide for Leaders
by Jennifer York-Barr, William A. Sommers, Gail S. Ghere, Joanne K. Montie
The authors make a substantive and powerful argument for addressing reflection at all levels of the organization and provide practical tools and insights to facilitate a comfortable transition from theory to practice.
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Reflection in Action: Developing Reflective Practice in Health and Social Services
by Bairbre Redmond
This book offers an overview of the origins of the different theories of reflection and explains how different levels of reflection can be understood and incorporated into everyday teaching and training. Outlining specific teaching and learning techniques to be used in training situations, it also includes examples of how these techniques have been successfully used with groups of professionals from health and social care areas.
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Managing to Collaborate
by Chris Huxham and S Vangen
The key features of the book include: theory drawn directly from practice rich theory explicated in simple language so it talks to everyone interested in collaboration a coherently developed understanding of the challenges in collaboration based on careful research.
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What Works In Strategic Partnerships for Children
By Janie Percy-Smith
This new Barnardos title considers how to build strong and effective partnerships for children. It examines the policy context in relation to work with children and young people, looks at the history of partnership working, and reviews the theories underpinning the different models of, and approaches to, partnership working.
http://www.barnardos.org.uk/strategic_summary.pdf
Young people’s voices
In this section you will find books which document the experiences and opinions of young people who are disaffected or excluded from school.
Disconnected Youth?: Growing Up in Britain's Poor Neighbourhoods
by Robert MacDonald and Jane Marsh
Based on close-up research with young men and women from localities suffering social exclusion in extreme form, Disconnected Youth? will appeal to all those who are interested in understanding and tackling the problems of growing up in Britain's poor neighbourhoods.
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by Susan Wise
This book provides practical suggestions on how better to provide for the pupils who are to reach and hard to teach.
