Education : Counseling

Children are often faced with personal problems that hinder their ability to succeed in school. This book provides exercises that school social workers, guidance counselors, and other mental health professionals can assign to their student clients as a way of extendng the therapeutic process outside the school. Assignments cover a variety of issues including family harmony, anger management, study and organizational skills, and self-esteem building. more...

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Written by an 'insider', an openly gay autistic adult, Wendy Lawson writes frankly and honestly about autism, sex and sexuality. In her new book, she draws upon her own experience to examine the implications of being autistic on relationships, sex and sexuality. Having discussed subjects such as basic sex education and autism, the author goes further to explore the wider issues of interpersonal relationships, same sex attraction, bisexuality and transgender issues. She also examines the unspoken rules that exist between people in relationships and explains why these rules can be difficult and confusing for people with autism. This book will give courage and information to adults with autism or Asperger Syndrome and provide essential insights to those living and working with them. more...

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Shared Responsibility is a proven, positive approach to beating bullying in Australian schools. At its core is the Shared Responsibility Meeting—a powerful and effective interviewing process that puts an immediate stop to bullying. The process appeals to empathy by putting a real person with real feelings in the place of the object victim. Shared Responsibility looks after the needs of victims, enabling students to cope and survive in a competitive school environment, teaching them how to be and feel safe. The whole school community is invited to share the responsibility for creating and maintaining an educational environment that is happy and safe for all students. The Shared Responsibility process has been trialled at a number of schools with highly positive results. It is simple, straight forward and can be managed by anyone who has basic people skills. more...

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When a family member or close friend dies, it can be difficult to know how best to help the children and teenagers involved. Someone Very Important Has Just Died is a practical book written for those caring for children and teenagers suffering a close bereavement. Intended for use immediately or soon after the death has occurred, this book gives practical and detailed guidance on what adults might say and do to help children. This much-needed resource tackles the sensitive issues of what to tell children, how far to include them in the events immediately after the death, and how to tend to their physical and emotional needs. The material is suitable for anyone regardless of their background and beliefs, and is supplemented with information on where to go to obtain longer term bereavement support. Someone Very Important Has Just Died is an ideal resource for professionals in all areas of work relating to bereavement. It is designed to be given to adults with children in their care at the time of a death. more...

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What to do about bullying in schools is an ever-expanding field, requiring constant monitoring as new ideas appear and new resources become available.With the publication of this second edition of Stop the Bullying I have been able to take recent developments into account in revising some of the contents of the earlier edition and adding further material of a practical nature. The issue of whether schools in Australia should take action against bullying is now well and truly over. The question has become: How can schools best deal with the problem? There remains a need for schools to work out what, among many, are the best courses of action for them to take and what resources are available for them to carry out agreed plans as effectively as possible. In revising this handbook I have kept in mind that anti-bullying initiatives are unlikely to be effective without widespread support from the school community, that is from staff, students and parents. I have therefore further emphasised the need for informed and thorough discussion of the issues, in the first instance by members of each school’s staff. I know that individual teachers, like members of the community at large, are apt to have different opinions about what to do. These differences are healthy but need to be brought out into the open and discussed in a non-judgemental manner. To this end, in this edition I have provided a series of questions in a questionnaire to help teachers discover where they and their colleagues stand, as a prerequisite to reaching a joint decision on what to do. I am also aware that bullying is not only an issue among children. It can also involve adults, as workplace research is now showing. Accordingly, I have provided a section in this edition that I hope will assist in taking a more comprehensive look at the problem. A major contribution of this handbook lies in informing schools about resources for addressing bullying. Teachers are no longer alone in their more...

Price: $39.95