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Understanding Families: Supportive Approaches to Diversity, Disability, and Risk

by Eleanor W. Lynch Marci J. Hanson

This book is about families in their many forms, their strengths and challenges, and the ways in which human service professionals can extend their effectiveness by working in partnership with families. This book is based on the authors' beliefs about families and the essential role that family members play in intervention. The textbook is a comprehensive guide to working effectively and respectfully with contemporary families.

Understanding Fertility Awareness Methods: Gaining Control of Your Fertility

by Rashmi Kudesia MD, MSc

Track your fertility through science and strategy—a modern guide to understanding FAM Pregnancy isn't always easy. For couples trying to conceive, navigating the complex charts and techniques behind Fertility Awareness Methods (FAM) can add stress and confusion to an already difficult journey. Understanding Fertility Awareness Methods is here to help, with medically accurate information to guide your decisions about if, when, and how to build a family. This friendly and compassionate resource can help you if you're ready to get pregnant, if you're concerned about your future fertility, or if you just want more control over your reproductive health. Learn the science behind different FAM methods, from Basal Body Temperatures to cycle calendars, and how tracking them can maximize your chances of conceiving. Understanding Fertility Awareness Methods offers: Fertility 101—Discover the mechanics of menstruation, fertility, and pregnancy, and how to familiarize yourself with your own body and cycle. Charting and tracking—Learn to track the different facets of your fertility using everything from pen-and-paper charts to apps and wearables. Complete health—Explore options about your long-term reproductive wellness, as well as the conditions that affect fertility, and when you should seek medical evaluation. Timing is everything—Develop a fertility strategy that lets you know when you're at your most fertile and why, so you'll be able to act when the time is right. Feel empowered and informed along the road of your fertility journey with this approachable and friendly guide.

Understanding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: A Guide to FASD for Parents, Carers and Professionals

by Liam Curran Maria Catterick Ed Riley

Understanding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is a useful introduction to the most common non-genetic learning disability, which is caused by alcohol consumption during pregnancy. Written by two FASD experts, it describes how alcohol can harm the foetus and disrupt development, and explains how FASD affects individuals at different stages of their lives. With the aid of simple, illustrative diagrams, photographs and charts, it shows how you can identify FASD and gives guidance on how mothers at risk can be helped. It also provides advice for parents or carers on how children, young people and adults with FASD can be best supported. Accessible and informative, this is the essential guide to FASD for social workers, family placement teams, child protection workers, foster carers, adoptive parents, midwives and teachers.

Understanding Girls with ADHD

by Kathleen Nadeau Ellen Littman Patricia Quinn

A ground-breaking book on the needs and issues of girls with attentional problems: why they are often undiagnosed, how they are different from boys, and what their special needs are in school, in their social world and at home. Age-related checklists from pre-school to high school help parents and professionals better identify and help girls with ADHD.

Understanding How Others Misunderstand You: A Unique and Proven Plan for Strengthening Personal Relationships

by Ken Voges Ron Braund

Using the pioneering DISC profile, this book teaches--in clear terms--how to build closer, more understanding relationships at home, work and church.

Understanding How Others Misunderstand You: A Unique and Proven Plan for Strengthening Personal Relationships

by Ken Voges Ron Braund

Using the pioneering DISC profile, this book teaches--in clear terms--how to build closer, more understanding relationships at home, work and church.

Understanding Intellectual Disability: A Guide for Professionals and Parents (Understanding Atypical Development)

by Margherita Orsolini Ciro Ruggerini

Understanding Intellectual Disability: A Guide for Professionals and Parents supports professionals and parents in understanding critical concepts, correct assessment procedures, delicate and science-infused communication practices and treatment methods concerning children with intellectual disabilities. From a professional perspective, this book relies on developmental neuropsychology and psychiatry to describe relevant measures and qualitative observations when making a diagnosis and explores the importance of involving parents in the reconstruction of a child’s developmental history. From a parent’s perspective, the book shows how enriched environments can empower children’s learning processes, and how working with patients, families, and organizations providing care and treatment services can be effectively integrated with attachment theory. Throughout seven chapters, the book offers an exploration of diagnostic procedures, new insights on the concept of intelligence and the role of communication and secure attachment in the mind’s construction. With expertise from noteworthy scholars in the field, the reader is given an overview of in-depth assessment and intervention practices illustrated by several case studies and examples, as well as a lifespan perspective from a Human Rights Model of disability. Understanding Intellectual Disability is an accessible guide offering an up-to-date vision of intellectual disability and is essential for psychologists, health care professionals, special educators, students in clinical psychology, and parents. Things are connected through invisible bonds: you cannot pluck a flower without unsettling a star. Galileo Galilei

Understanding Learning Disability and Dementia: Developing Effective Interventions

by Diana Kerr

Understanding Learning Disability and Dementia covers all the essential issues in supporting a person with a learning disability when they develop dementia. Like the population at large, people with learning disabilities are living longer, and therefore an increasing number are developing dementia. Service providers, planners, doctors, social workers, carers and direct support staff need to be equipped with relevant knowledge prior to the onset of dementia, so that they can devise appropriate therapeutic interventions and coping strategies, including health and medication management and palliative care. This book will provide essential knowledge for anyone involved in the provision of services, assessment of need and direct care and support for dementia sufferers who also have a learning disability.

Understanding Low Vision

by Randall T. Jose

Textbook on assessment of low vision, clinical services, training and instructional services, and special considerations.

Understanding Motor Skills in Children with Dyspraxia, ADHD, Autism, and Other Learning Disabilities: A Guide to Improving Coordination

by Lisa A. Kurtz

'The book is user-friendly and includes clear diagrams in each section, along with tables to outline key points. I found these very useful and they are an easy reference/ reminder, for example, they include a normal development chart, what assessments are available and their main aims.' - National Association of Paediatric Occupational Therapists Coordination problems often make everyday activities a challenge for children with learning disabilities. This accessible manual offers practical strategies and advice for helping children with coordination difficulties. The author explains how to recognize normal and abnormal motor development, when and how to seek help, and includes specific teaching strategies to help children with coordination difficulties succeed in the classroom, playground, and home. She describes a wide range of therapeutic methods and provides a comprehensive list of resources. Full of practical help, this is essential reading for anyone caring for, or working with, children with developmental motor concerns.

Understanding Nonverbal Learning Disabilities: A Common-Sense Guide for Parents and Professionals

by Maggie Mamen

This easy-to-read guide offers a complete overview of Nonverbal Learning Disabilities (NLDs) and the wide variety of symptoms that different types of NLD present. Maggie Mamen enables readers to select the most relevant strategies for coping with and managing their particular symptoms. She provides a wealth of practical advice on key skills such as developing written and verbal communication, understanding social clues, managing behaviour, self-regulation and improving organization. She also covers relevant teaching methods for the classroom. This practical and accessible introduction is an essential guide for those families and professionals working with children and adults with NLDs.

Understanding Postmodern Family Therapy: Interweaving Theory and Applying Models in Context

by Kelsey Railsback

This accessible textbook provides therapy students and practitioners with an understandingof postmodern theories, founders, and practical applications to family therapy.It introduces complex concepts in bite-sized pieces so readers can cultivate andmaster competent real-world applications of postmodern philosophy in therapy.Relying predominantly on primary sources, Kelsey Railsback shows how postmodernistideas influenced the development and implementation of postmodern familytherapy models, focusing on collaborative-dialogic practice, narrative therapy, andsolution focused brief therapy. It describes why certain therapeutic techniques developedand explains the context and history of their development. Each section beginswith an introduction to the model before moving to the philosopher and ending withthe founders’ application of philosophical ideas to therapy techniques. These chapterssummarize prominent ideas from esteemed professionals in their fields, covering thephilosophical pioneers Wittgenstein, Foucault, and Gergen and the therapy pioneersAnderson, White, Epston, de Shazer, Berg, and more. Critically, this book demonstrateshow postmodern theory can be applied in mental health practice. By the end ofthe book, students will be able to interweave the philosophers, founders, and applicationsof postmodern family therapy into a comprehensive picture. To better understandtheir epistemology and why they are more inclined toward certain practices over others,students can utilize the included self-quizzes to deepen their understanding.Filled with etymological explanations, reflective questions, keywords, and summariesthroughout, this book is designed for students and practitioners in systemic andrelational therapy or related fields such as psychology, social work, and mental healthcounseling.

Understanding Regulation Disorders of Sensory Processing in Children: Management Strategies for Parents and Professionals

by Pratibha Reebye Aileen Stalker

Children with Regulation Disorders of Sensory Processing struggle to regulate their emotions and behaviors in response to sensory stimulation. This book explains how to recognize these disorders, which are often misdiagnosed, and offers practical ways of helping children with regulation disorders. The authors describe the everyday experiences of those who interact with infants and children with Regulation Disorders of Sensory Processing. They explain the distinguishing characteristics, symptoms, diagnosis, assessment and treatment approaches for the disorder. Focusing on early intervention, they present a range of management strategies for sensory sensitivities, motor problems, over- or under-reaction, and extremes of behavior. These practical strategies for parents and professionals will help children with regulation disorders integrate and succeed in the family, at school and in the community. This concise book will be of interest to those who assess, educate and parent children with regulation disorders.

Understanding Sensory Processing Disorders in Children: A Guide for Parents and Professionals

by Matt Mielnick

Everything we know about the world we live in starts with information we take in through the senses. This book explains the way our sensory system works and shows how small inefficiencies in this complex system can have a huge impact on a child's behaviour. Through easily relatable examples and metaphors, the book describes the variety of sensory processing differences that can occur in children in a jargon-free way and offers practical advice to help manage these differences. It explains how children's varying sensory thresholds - the point where a behavioural response to a stimuli is generated - affects the way they view the world. Each section includes occupational therapy evaluations of children with a range of sensory thresholds, and shows how this influences their behaviour through professional observation reports, offering a summary and recommendation for each child. Presented with a clear focus, without long lists of syndromes and symptoms, this is the ideal starting point for parents and professionals working with children with sensory processing issues.

Understanding Teenage Anxiety: A Parent's Guide to Improving Your Teen's Mental Health

by Jennifer Browne Cody Buchanan

If you’re the parent of a teenager experiencing chronic anxiety, this book is for you.Today’s teens are high-strung and socially overextended. We shrug it off as a millennial problem, but is it? In a world that encourages the quick fix, instant gratification, and real-time feedback, can we really expect our children to cope as we did less than two decades ago, in the land of handshakes, eye contact, elbow grease, and grit?This book is a product of a combination of three very different perspectives: those of the anxious teen, the parent, and the therapist. We need to understand what we’ve created in terms of our current society to gain proper insight on why we’re seeing increasingly rising levels of anxiety in our teenagers. Topics include:Physical and Emotional Symptoms of AnxietyTeens and Self-HarmAnxiety and Gut HealthSports: Concussions and AnxietyNatural Ways to Help Your Teen CopeAnd much, much moreWithin each chapter, author (and parent) Jennifer Browne and co-author (Jennifer’s teenage son) Cody Buchanan, who struggles with anxiety and depression, will weigh in on what this affliction feels like, physically, mentally, and emotionally. They share personal experiences to help parents better understand their teens and learn a lot along the way.

Understanding Your Baby

by Sophie Boswell

Why do some mothers and babies take to breast feeding while others don't? And what are the emotions involved for mother and baby when the baby rejects a feed, or when breast feeding stops? What happens when parents and their babies have to negotiate separations, or deal with night-time crying? What if your baby's distress makes you feel that you cannot cope? This book takes the reader through the entire first year of a baby's life, anticipating parents' questions and covering topics ranging from parental feelings during pregnancy to a 10-month-old's sociability and deepening relationships.

Understanding Your Baby: A parent's guide to early child development

by Annette Karmiloff-Smith Kyra Karmiloff

Babies arrive in the world already equipped with many skills, reflexes and instincts that help them adapt to and influence their environment as well as the people who fill it. The mother-and-daughter team of Kyra Karmiloff, a research psychologist, and Dr Annette Karmiloff-Smith, a professorial research fellow at the Developmental Neurocognition Lab at Birkbeck College, University of London, 'translate' the latest scientific findings on infant behaviour, the development of gross and fine motor skills and intelligence, and how infants produce language and experience the social world, as well as offering helpful tips and suggestions about how parents can positively influence their child's journey towards independence.

Understanding Your Baby: A parent's guide to early child development

by Annette Karmiloff-Smith Kyra Karmiloff

Babies arrive in the world already equipped with many skills, reflexes and instincts that help them adapt to and influence their environment as well as the people who fill it. The mother-and-daughter team of Kyra Karmiloff, a research psychologist, and Dr Annette Karmiloff-Smith, a professorial research fellow at the Developmental Neurocognition Lab at Birkbeck College, University of London, 'translate' the latest scientific findings on infant behaviour, the development of gross and fine motor skills and intelligence, and how infants produce language and experience the social world, as well as offering helpful tips and suggestions about how parents can positively influence their child's journey towards independence.

Understanding Your Child's Brain

by Álvaro Bilbao

Understanding Your Child's Brain simplifies the neuroscience behind what is going on in a child’s brain during the first six years of life to help parents develop the full intellectual and emotional potential of their children. The book starts with an accessible explanation of the pillars and principals to understanding the child’s brain. It then provides tools to helps parents communicate more effectively with, nurture empathy in, and enforce rules and positive behaviours for their children. Examining how to develop the emotional intelligence of children as well as their intellect, the chapters examine how to raise children based on trust, assertiveness, and fearlessness, while also providing support and exercises in improving language, memory, creativity, and self-control. This book offers parents and educators practical solutions to parenting problems and realistic advice for ensuring the healthy emotional and intellectual development of their children. It will also be relevant to all mental health professionals who want to be more assertive when talking to parents about their child’s problems and growth.

Understanding Your Gifted Child From the Inside Out

by James Delisle

Understanding Your Gifted Child From the Inside Out provides an engaging and encouraging look at raising gifted children today. A follow-up to the best-selling "Parenting Gifted Kids: Tips for Raising Happy and Successful Children," this new edition focuses on the social and emotional aspects of giftedness, highlighting new information on the issues of perfectionism, self-advocacy, underachievement, mindfulness, and the impact of technology on gifted kids' relationships. The book also features a section on life beyond college, for those readers whose children are no longer children. Understanding Your Gifted Child From the Inside Out features real-life stories about the lives of gifted children and how they and their parents recognize and enjoy the many intellectual talents and social and emotional insights they possess.

Understanding Your Gifted Child From the Inside Out: A Guide to the Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Kids

by James Delisle

Understanding Your Gifted Child From the Inside Out provides an engaging and encouraging look at raising gifted children today. A follow-up to the best-selling Parenting Gifted Kids: Tips for Raising Happy and Successful Children, this new edition focuses on the social and emotional aspects of giftedness, highlighting new information on the issues of perfectionism, self-advocacy, underachievement, mindfulness, and the impact of technology on gifted kids' relationships. The book also features a section on life beyond college, for those readers whose children are no longer children. Understanding Your Gifted Child From the Inside Out features real-life stories about the lives of gifted children and how they and their parents recognize and enjoy the many intellectual talents and social and emotional insights they possess.Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented 2019 Legacy Book Award Winner - Parenting

Understanding Your One-Year-Old

by Sarah Gustavus-Jones

How does the world look to a one-year-old? When your child doesn't have words to explain things to you, how can you begin to understand how she feels? How do you support and understand your very young child as his independence increases and he starts to become a toddler, beginning to learn to dress himself, share toys and play with other children? Acknowledging the crucial role of relationships and parenting, Sarah Gustavus Jones offers guidance and reassurance in this sensitive exploration of the issues central to your child's developing physical and emotional needs.

Understanding Your Teen: Shaping Their Character, Facing Their Realities

by Jim Burns

Parenting teenagers is one of the biggest challenges parents face. New realities make becoming independent more difficult. Teens are traveling a different road and are moving at a different pace than those of previous generations. Today's cultural environment is more complicated and confusing than ever. But fear not! Family expert Jim Burns provides a handy guide for parenting teens. For teens to become responsible adults, parents need to help them grow through developmental changes to attain a healthy self-identity, establish good relationships, make wise decisions, and grow in their relationship with God. Burns shows how parents can shape behavior and character, navigate social media challenges, and communicate and resolve conflict healthily. He also tackles the realities of our day, including cyberbullying, dating violence, self-injury, depression, and much more. Whether you're facing serious troubles or looking for simple tips for a better family life, this book offers help and hope.

Understanding Your Three-Year-Old

by Louise Emanuel

What changes when a young child begins to leave toddlerhood behind? How do you keep track of your child's good and bad experiences at nursery and kindergarten and support her through them? What is the best way to cope with temper tantrums, and why do they happen? Louise Emanuel presents practical tips and a great deal of emotional reassurance for both the first-time and the experienced parent. She offers helpful guidance on a range of topics, from managing sibling rivalry and ensuring everyone in the family gets a good night's sleep, to encouraging conversation and imaginative solitary and social play.

Understanding Your Two-Year-Old

by Lisa Miller

What makes children in their 'terrible twos' behave as they do? How can parents decide when their child is ready for day care, and manage their child's transition to a trusted child minder? Lisa Miller guides parents through their two-year-old's development, from how to deal with a 'bossy boots' to understanding the central importance of toys, and the development of language and nonverbal communicative skills. She describes ways in which parents can help a young child express or resolve difficult feelings or jealousy, come to accept and welcome a new-born sibling, and negotiate friendships.

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