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.
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 - A Non-Violent Resistance Approach with Children in Distress: A Guide for Parents and Professionals
By Carmelite Avraham-Krehwinkel and David Aldridge, 2009.
This book suggests approaches to dealing with severe disruptive behaviour in children and adolescents.
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NEW - Getting Beyond Bullying and Exclusion: Empowering Children in Inclusive Classrooms
By Ronald Mah, 2009. This book focuses on the vulnerabilities of children who get bullied, particularly those with learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD), Aspergers Syndrome, and gifted abilities. It also explains the victim dynamic, including how otherwise well-meaning adults can inadvertently facilitate development of victim personalities in children or unintentionally contribute to the development of bully personalities. Suggests intervention methods.
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Tough Times
by Clare Beswick, Sally Featherstone
The Tough Times series is designed to help early years practitioners support very young children who are experiencing particular stress or anxiety. This book looks at what the child might be feeling at tricky times such as the arrival of new brother or sister, moving house or simply feeling angry and offers guidance and a lots of practical advice and support . The aim is to equip adults, working with babies and young children who are troubled or distressed, with an accessible resource to which they can quickly refer in times of need.
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What have I done? A Victim Empathy Programme For Young People
By Pete Wallis
This is a course to encourage empathy in young people who commit crimes or hurt others through their actions. It is designed to be used directly with young people who have committed a specific crime or caused harm and distress to others through their actions, and challenges the young person to face the harm they have caused and consider what they can do to help put things right. The exercises use creative arts, film, role-play and discussion. A DVD is also included.
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Building and Restoring Respectful Relationships in Schools: A Guide to Restorative Practice
by Richard Hendry
Restorative Practice helps disruptive pupils to take responsibility for their actions, understand the consequences of their behaviour and apologise to others. Through a whole-school approach school teachers and managers can help all children build healthy and respectful relationships with peers and teachers. Building and Restoring Respectful Relationships in Schools is a practical resource to help relieve the pressure on schools and education services by leading them to plan and implement restorative approaches in their day-to-day work.
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Better Learning, Better Behaviour (Policy & Practice in Education)
by George Head
George Head explores the issues surrounding young people experiencing social, emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD) and suggests teaching strategies that, in targeting such children work to the benefit of all at school. Furthermore, the book argues that, within a context of inclusion, provision for pupils regarded as belonging to the category requires to be refocused onto their learning rather than their behaviour.
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21st Century Boys: How Modern Life is driving them off the rails and how we can get them back on track
Sue Palmer
A former headteacher, the author looks at contemporary issues for boys of all ages, considers recent research and suggests ways for parents, teachers and others to help address issues. Published May 2009.
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New edition of How to Manage Children’s Challenging Behaviour
Bill Rogers
This book gives contributions from practising teachers that suggest ways to tackle disruptive and challenging behaviour. New material in this edition includes new case studies, a new chapter on working with angry parents and managing anger in ourselves and our children.
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Gangs, Marginalised Youth and Social Capital
Ross Deuchar
This book (Aug 2009) argues that the process of young people feeling excluded from many areas is increasing both in Glasgow and in many areas of the world, as gang membership increases and the authorities introduce zero tolerance strategies in response. Ross Deuchar is a lecturer in the Department of Childhood and Primary Studies at the University of Strathclyde. A paper written from his research, called ‘Gangs, Sectarianism and Social Capital: A Qualitative Study of Young People in Scotland’ will appear in the journal Sociology, published by the British Sociological Association.
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Building Better Behaviour in the Early Years
Chris Dukes and Maggie Smith
Includes CD Rom. Every early years setting strives to create a calm and positive atmosphere, where children can thrive and develop as successful and confident learners.
By asking you to reflect on how the ethos, practice and general approach in your setting impacts on the behaviour of both children and adults, this book suggest sensible ways to achieve an exciting and stimulating environment for all.
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Behaviour for Learning: Proactive Approaches to Behaviour Management
Simon Ellis and Janet Tod
Behaviour for Learning offers a clear conceptual framework for making sense of the many behaviour management strategies on offer, allowing a critical assessment about their appropriateness and effectiveness in the classroom. Teachers need to be asking themselves the question "How can I improve a child’s learning?" rather than "How can I get them to behave?" The authors present a unique focus on the relationships which underpin learning.
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Help your Child or Teen Get Back On Track: What Parents and Professionals Can Do for Childhood Emotional and Behavioural Problems
Kenneth H. Talan MD
Offers specific self-help interventions and a wide-ranging, practical discussion of the types of professional help available for a child or adolescent with emotional and behavioural problems. “This book provides ideas and advice on seeking professional help for parents who are worried about a child or adolescent with behavioural and
emotional problems… Most positive is the author's obvious warmth, empathy and understanding, his acknowledgment of how hard parents find it when their children have difficulties'- Children and Young People Now.
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Anger Management Games for Children
Deborah M. Plummer, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, March 2008. 159 pages, Paperback £15.99.
This practical handbook helps adults to understand, manage and reflect constructively on children's anger. It features familiar and easy-to-learn games, and is designed to foster successful anger management strategies for children aged 5-12
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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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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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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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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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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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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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In this section you will find books which consider strategies for schools, and practitioners who support schools, attempting to engage with disaffected pupils.
NEW - Positive Intervention for Pupils Who Struggle at School
By Helen Sonnet, 2009. This book offers methods of intervention which are “designed for those children who have been through all the standard interventions, to no avail, and who are now in danger of being excluded.”
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NEW - Children, Their World, Their Education
Edited by Robin Alexander, 2009. This book contains the final report and recommendations of the expansive Cambridge Primary Review, “the most comprehensive enquiry into English primary education for 40 years.”
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NEW - How Children Learn 3: Contemporary Thinking and Theorists
By Linda Pound, 2009. Influential writers in the early years are summarised in this book which addresses current educational issues and suggests learning techniques and ideas.
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Meeting the Needs of Disaffected Students: Engaging students with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties
by Dave Vizard
Through the use of a variety of approaches and techniques, including emotional literacy, NLP and learning styles, this resource gives practical examples of how to engage disaffected students and ensure they have a successful learning experience.
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Escape from Exclusion
by Brian Marris and Tina Rae
A 15 session programme with an emotionally literate approach to supporting excluded and disaffected students aged 7-16.
Excluded From School: Complex Discourse and Psychological Perspectives
Christopher Arnold, Jane Yeomans, Mike Solomon and Sarah Simpson
In this book four psychologists explore the experiences of people who have been involved with exclusion from school: the child, the family, the excluding school and the receiving unit. There is discussion about theory, reflection on the harm that exclusion can do and suggestions for new approaches to managing difficult behaviour in secondary schools.
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Bullying: a complete guide to the support group method
George Robinson and Barbara Maines
Previously referred to as the No Blame Approach, the pioneering work of George and Barbara has been popular amongst practitioners seeking an alternative method to punishment for dealing with bullying in their setting. This publication incorporates an updated edition of their best selling 'Crying for Help' and provides a clear practical guide and an explanation of the theory and values underpinning the work.
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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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In this section you will find book’s which consider the most successful approaches to working with young people and their families.
TAKE 3: Skills and Strategies for Supporting Parents to Deal with Challenging Teenagers
by Rosie Hill
Take3 is a parenting programme now published for the first time after having been developed and used over an eight-year period in Oxfordshire. This training pack with DVD and CD contains material for working with groups of parents of 10-18 year olds, including parents of at-risk of vulnerable young people. The course has two parts; a ten-session basic course plus ten extra sessions which can be used as optional 'add-ons'.
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Literacy goes to school
This book gives a clear demonstration of literacy learning that takes place at home, and how it differs from, as well as relates to, literacy at school. It will help teachers to increase their understanding of this process and to build on their relationship with parents. Such understanding, the book shows, can directly enhance children's literacy performance in school.
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Coping with Complexity: child and adult poverty
Mark Tomlinson and Robert Walker
This book (Feb 2009) examines the impact that poverty has on children’s lives.
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It is also available as a paperback from HERE
Children, Families and Violence
This book examines the risk factors surrounding children at risk of experiencing and perpetrating violence, and looks at the positive role that children's rights can play in their protection. The authors propose that violence in childhood is not spontaneous: that children are raised to become violent in poorly functioning families and child unfriendly environments.
Take me to more about this book HEREMaking an Impact: Children and Domestic Violence
The book focuses on the children who experience domestic violence and lays guidelines for how best to support and protect them.
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Children, Families and Violence – Challenges for Children’s Rights
Katherine Covell and R.Brian Howe.
November 2008, 288pp, hardback £39.99. Published by Jessica Kingsley. This book examines the risk factors surrounding children at risk of experiencing and perpetrating violence, and looks at the positive role that children’s rights can play in their protection.
Read about this book at Jessica Kingsley Publishers site HERE
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.
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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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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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.
Read about or order this book on Amazon UKEffective Ways of Working with Children and Their Families
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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In this section you will find books which consider of substance misuse in young people.
What You Need to Know about Cannabis – Understanding the facts.
David Emmet and Graeme Nice. October 2008, 144pp, paperback £12.99. Published by Jessica Kingsley.
According to the UN's estimate, roughly 2.5 per cent of the world population use cannabis: yet most people have a profound lack of knowledge about cannabis. This book aims to offer accessible, accurate and objective information, allowing readers to draw their own conclusions. It demystifies the latest research about effects, particularly in relation to mental health.
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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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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.
Inside Anorexia
The book describes the different experiences and challenges faced by teenage girls with anorexia and their families. It demonstrates that the starting point for understanding anorexia must be the unique stories of individuals and their families.
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Feeling Like Crap: Young People and the Meaning of Self Esteem
The book explores how a young person’s self is constructed and what might really help that self to feel more valued and confident.
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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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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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In this section you will find books which look at working with young people who are in the care system.
Just Care; Restorative Justice Approaches to Working with Children in Public Care
by Belinda Hopkins
Restorative justice is an innovative approach to addressing conflict and bullying, as well as disruptive, challenging and criminal behaviour. A restorative approach in a care setting shifts the emphasis from managing and responding to anti-social behaviour to the building, nurturing and repairing of relationships, and encourages the young person to accept responsibility and put things right.
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Supporting Young Parents: Pregnancy and Parenthood among Young People from Care
This book draws on authoritative research into the reasons for and experiences of pregnancy and parenthood among young people from local authority care. It questions the assumptions that early parenthood always limits young people's choices and opportunities and examines the types of support most likely to enable successful parenting.
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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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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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In this section you will find books which document the experiences and opinions of young people who are disaffected or excluded from school.
Setting Up and Running a Peer Listening Scheme
by Kathy Salter Hampson
Intended to equip any organisation working with young people to train them up to be a listening ear for their peers, the author draws on experience as a learning mentor and a youth justice worker to cover everything from the beginning to the end of the process, including case studies and resources.
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Researching with Children and Young People
Research Design, Methods and Analysis by E. Kay M Tisdall, John M. Davis and Michael Gallagher.Published in December 2008, thisis based on theirUniversity of Edinburgh course, Listening to Children and is published by SAGE Publications.248 pages, Paperback costs £21.99.
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Environment Suffers From Drug And Alcohol Misuse - Said Young People from Pollok.
This new publication, ‘Drugs and Alcohol Through our Eyes 2’, was announced by Aberlour Childcare Trust, and was launched on 18th September at their Big Night In annual Youth Information event and the Getting Real about Alcohol'n' Drugs (GRAND) initiative. The authors are aged between 8 and 12 years, who produced the book at a creative writing course. It will be circulated to schools and organisations around Glasgow.
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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.
Read about or order this book on Amazon UK.Listen to Me!: The Voices of Pupils with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
by Susan Wise
This book provides practical suggestions on how better to provide for the pupils who are to reach and hard to teach.
In this section you will find books which look at the issue of Children's Services.
Effective Multi-Agency Partnerships: Putting Every Child Matters into Practice
by Rita Cheminais
Offering practical advice and guidance on how to establish and maintain effective multi-agency partnership working in your setting, this book will tell you how to meet the Every Child Matters outcomes for children and young people.
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In this section you will find books which look at the issue of working with young people with additional support needs.
NEW - A Handbook for Inclusion Managers: Steering your School towards Inclusion
By Ann Sydney, 2009. This book provides a framework which can be adapted to suit individual schools and a checklist of good practice to help manage an inclusive learning environment. It includes guidance on how to get the best from your staff; what inclusive teaching and learning look like; working with special schools; creating an inclusion strategy and other topics.
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NEW - Living With Dyslexia: The social and emotional consequences of specific learning difficulties/disabilities, 2nd Edition
By Barbara Riddick, 2009. Based on interviews with dyslexic children and their families, this book presents first-hand accounts of how dyslexia affects the children themselves and the people around them. This second edition reflects current research and practice in the UK, Europe, Australia and the USA. The book “examines issues of confidence and self-esteem; explores the coping strategies adopted by children and adults with dyslexia; investigates the concept of dyslexia-friendly schools; studies how children were first identified as having dyslexia, and the social and emotional difficulties they encountered; offers guidance on how teachers and parents can best support children; and considers cognitive, educational, social and emotional perspectives.”
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The Child’s World: The Comprehensive Guide to Assessing Children in Need (2nd edition)
Edited by Jan Horwath
This updated edition of the book on assessing children in need and their families integrates practice, policy and theory to produce a comprehensive guide to aspects of assessment.
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Practical Behaviour Management Solutions for Children and Teens with Autism.
by Linda Miller
This book offers a complete framework for behaviour intervention which has its roots in prevention and good practice, with an emphasis on promoting and encouraging the development of skills and independence. From identifying behaviour and understanding the root causes, through to planning and implementing a comprehensive intervention programme, this book has practical strategies and guidance.
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Girls Growing up on the Autism Spectrum
This book covers all the concerns commonly faced by girls with Autism Spectrum Disorders and their parents, from periods and puberty to worries over friendships and ‘fitting in’. From Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Take me to this book here100 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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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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In this section you will find articles which engage with the issue of working with young people around the issues of Social Justice.