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	Assessing and Promoting Resilience in Vulnerable Children: Adolescence Vol 3
	This practical resource for work with vulnerable adolescents shows ways of promoting resilience and encouraging pro-social behaviour.

	Assessing and Promoting Resilience in Vulnerable Children: Early Years v. 1
	This workbook shows the importance of encouraging resilience in pre-school children who have disrupted home lives or are in other difficult situations.

	Assessing and Promoting Resilience in Vulnerable Children: School Years v. 2
	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.

	Child Care and Education
	This new full colour edition of the best-selling child care book will provide students with a fully comprehenisve text for their course. The content has been tailored to the new CACHE and BTEC Diplomas, and is now the ideal resource for all diploma level students.

	Child Care Law: A Summary of the Law in England and Wales
	A quick reference guide offering a simple introduction to the main legal provisions in England and Wales.

	Creative Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
	Despite heightened media attention and the increase in professional knowledge about child abuse, many children are still being failed by the system.

	Ghosts from the Nursery: tracing the roots of violence
	"In the middle of the night, on May 11, 1993, in the rural Northwest, an eighty-four-year-old man was bludgeoned to death ..."

	Growing Up with Disability (Research Highlights in Social Work)
	Encompassing a wide range of perspectives on childhood impairment and its social implications, this text adopts a child-centred approach, including interviews with disabled young people and their own writing, to enable their voices to be heard.

	Healing the Hurt Within: Understand Self-Injury and Self-Harm, and Heal the Emotional Wounds
	This book should be carefully digested by any practitioner who works with people who self- injure.

	Life Story Work: a practical guide to helping children understand their past
	This book was found to be excellent when doing Life Story Work with children who are being adopted or going into long term foster placements.

	Nobody Ever Told Us School Mattered: Raising the Educational Attainments of Children in Public Care
	An anthology covering a previously neglected area, drawing together contributions from research and practice on the educational needs of children in public care.

	Promoting Resilience: a resource guide on working with children in the care system
	The book gives a useful overview of some of the issues facing children in public care.

	Protecting Children: A Resource Book and Course Reader
	This book is a resource for all those needing an awareness of child protection issues and procedures. In a straightforward, accessible manner it introduces the key legislation, the bodies and organisations involved in safeguarding and, crucially, what you need to do if you suspect a young person is being harmed.

	Protector's Handbook: Reducing the Risk of Child Sexual Abuse and Helping Children Recover
	This book is clear and concise and written for the ordinary parent or relation who finds themselves confronted with the care of a child who has been abused.

	The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
	The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is recognised as one of the most influential books ever written. In this seminal work, Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle- centred approach for solving personal and professional problems.

	Treating Compassion Fatigue
	Sometimes called secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue describes the traumatic effect and the toll that helping those suffering with PTSD can have on the helping professional. The objective of this book is to aid the identification, assessment, and treatment of compassion fatigue and this is done over eleven chapters, each from distinguished researchers in the field.

	Whatever Happened to Adam?
	This work tells the stories of 20 youngsters with disabilities & the families who chose to care for them.

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