Parenting

MAY 2022 | TP | 336PP | ISBN-9781839971723 | JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS

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SARAH NAISH is author of bestselling parenting guide The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting. She is an adoptive parent, CEO of The Centre of Excellence in Child Trauma, founder of the National Association of Therapeutic Parents, and SAfER Fostering, director of Inspire Training Group and author of the hugely popular Therapeutic Parenting Books series.

KATH GRIMSHAW is a writer, illustrator and children’s book designer. She has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and, as a child, she struggled to understand why she felt the way she did, which inspired her to write Frankie’s Foibles. Kath studied Human Sciences at Oxford University before pursuing a career in children’s book publishing. She now freelances from her hometown of Totnes, Devon, where she lives with her husband, two boys and three cats.

The A-Z of Survival Strategies for Therapeutic Parents

From Chaos to Cake

Sarah Naish

This book is your hot flask of tea or coffee, and a cosy blanket which will keep you warm, safe and well on your journey, ensuring you reach the other side, mentally and physically well.

So, you want to help your child by therapeutic parenting, but how are YOU?

This easy-to-follow, dip-in dip-out resource addresses common challenges and feelings experienced by therapeutic parents and offers 80 practical strategies to help you cope and survive. Bestselling parenting author Sarah Naish writes with humour and compassion, sharing her personal and professional experiences covering all of the essentials: self-maintenance, coping with isolation and rejection, scheduling holidays and, of course, the therapeutic importance of cake!

Think you don’t have the time or inclination for a bit of ‘self-care’? This book will save time, save energy and help solve your problems - a ‘must have’ for all therapeutic parents.

MARCH 2020 | TP | 320PP | ISBN-9781529300468 JOHN MURRAY LEARNING

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MONA DELAHOOKE, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist with more than 30 years of experience caring for children and their families. She is a senior faculty member of the Profectum Foundation, an organization dedicated to supporting families of neurodiverse children, adolescents and adults. Dr. Delahooke holds the highest level of endorsement in the field of infant and toddler mental health in the state of California, as a Reflective Practice Mentor (RPM). She is a frequent speaker, trainer, and consultant to parents, organizations, schools, and public agencies. She is the author of Social and Emotional Development in Early Intervention: A Skills Guide for Working with Children (PESI, 2017).

Beyond Behaviours

Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children’s Behavioural Challenges

Mona Delahooke

A PARADIGM SHIFT FOR CAREGIVERS THAT WILL REVOLUTIONIZE THE WAY YOU APPROACH, TREAT OR PARENT A CHILD WITH CHALLENGING OR EXPLOSIVE BEHAVIOURS.

When you are confronted with a child who is troubled, disruptive, oppositional, defiant or angry - whether you are a parent or a teacher - it can be difficult to know the best way to support them. Traditional methods of ‘shaping’ a child’s behaviour can often be at best ineffective, at worst distressing, for child and adult alike.

Drawing on 30 years of experience, internationally known paediatric psychologist Dr Mona Delahooke describes these troubled behaviours as the ‘tip of the iceberg’, important signals that point to deeper, individual differences in the child that we need to understand and address before we can resolve behavioural challenges. Using the very latest neuroscientific research Beyond Behaviours makes the case that many children who can’t seem to behave simply don’t have the developmental capacity to do so - yet.

This book uses neuroscientific findings to help you deconstruct behaviour challenges, and to discover their cause and triggers for your child. It will show you how to apply this knowledge across a variety of behaviour spectrums, from children diagnosed with autism or other forms of neurodiversity, to those who might have been exposed to toxic stress or trauma during their early years. There are practical strategies to implement at every stage, backed up by impactful worksheets and charts, with a strong emphasis not on ‘managing’ behaviour, but instead on helping children and families build positive experiences to counteract the stress and pressure felt by everybody when you’re working, or living, with a child who has behavioural challenges.

DECEMBER 2022 | TP | 288PP | ISBN-9781399800266 | SHELDON PRESS

FIONA SPARGO-MABBS is one of the leading experts on drugs education and teenage wellbeing in the UK. As Director of drug education charity the Daniel Spargo-Mabbs Foundation (founded after the death of Fiona’s son Dan from an accidental MDMA overdose in 2014) she is involved in an everincreasing number of strategic and policy projects nationally, and she has appeared in the media many times over the years. Fiona works in schools and colleges with students of all ages, and with their parents, teachers and other professionals, delivering workshops that promote communication and understanding in order to support drugs education and teenage mental health. With more than two decades’ experience in education. Fiona has led on the development and management of the work of the Foundation from the start, from delivery to students and co-ordination with schools, to networking and strategy. Her passionate commitment to do all she can to prevent what happened to her son happening to anyone else drives everything she does.

Talking the Tough Stuff with Teens

Making Conversations Work When It Matters Most

Fiona Spargo-Mabbs

‘They’ve always wanted me to be open and honest with them, I’ve spent years explaining stuff to them, and sometimes they still don’t understand everything’ - Milly, 16

‘Your parents aren’t actually hatching a plan to ruin your life...’ - Jim, 52

From minor matters (tidiness, homework, sleep) to big and important ones (relationships, mental ill health, drugs and alcohol), teenagers and their parents often struggle to talk to each other - and talking is key if your young person is facing new challenges as they leave childhood behind. A well-timed conversation, a listening ear, a non-judgemental and receptive attitude - all these can make an enormous and lasting impact on how safely and happily a teenager navigates this crucial stage of their development. Oh, if only it were that easy.

It’s not always easy to talk to your teenager, or for them to talk to you, but it is critical and may even be life-saving. This book draws extensively on hundreds of conversations that Fiona Spargo-Mabbs has conducted with young people and parents in focus groups and school and college workshops, to give a framework for tackling tough conversations about difficult things, without judgement or anger. It gives context and insight, based on the latest neuroscience findings on the teenage brain and, importantly, it gives hundreds of prompts and plenty of practical suggestions and strategies to make communication between parents and young people a two-way street.

Covering everything from curfews and screen time, to the tough stuff of sex, self-harm and suicide, this is a warm, compassionate and important book that draws on lived experience and the lives of young people as they are, not as we think they might, or should, be.