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Author Spotlight: Sarah Naish
SARAH NAISH
Sarah Naish 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.
The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting
Strategies and Solutions Sarah Naish
Therapeutic parenting is a deeply nurturing parenting style, and is especially effective for children with attachment difficulties, or who experienced childhood trauma. This book provides everything you need to know in order to be able to effectively therapeutically parent.
Providing a model of intervention, The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting gives parents or caregivers an easy to follow process to use when responding to issues with their children. The following A-Z covers 60 common problems parents face, from acting aggressively to difficulties with sleep, with advice on what might trigger these issues, and how to respond.
Easy to navigate and written in a straightforward style, this book is a ‘must have’ for all therapeutic parents.
Tools for Proactive Practice Sarah Naish, Sarah Dillon and Jane Mitchell
Practical Tools for social workers and those working in child welfare with traumatized children and therapeutic parents which will support family stability, resolve presenting complex issues , help to meet developmental needs and reduce the risk of family breakdown.
Designed as a professional complement to Sarah Naish’s bestselling A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting, this tried and tested resource offers practical tools for all professionals supporting therapeutic families.
Based on the latest research, and with photocopiable worksheets, pro formas and charts to use with parents, these tools will help you to build supportive and stable relationships with families and reduce family breakdown.
Simple to use, and easy to implement, these tools will enable you to create therapeutic, trauma-informed assessments, intervention and support.
“What a relief to see someone understands what life is really like living with developmentally traumatized children. This book helps everyone understand where children of trauma are coming from, but most importantly it helps professionals understand how important it is to look at past trauma.”
– Amazon reviewer
The A-Z of Survival Strategies for Therapeutic Parents
From Chaos to Cake Sarah Naish
Illustrated by Kath Grimshaw
NEW Therapeutic Parenting Essentials
Moving from Trauma to Trust Sarah Naish, Sarah Dillon and Jane Mitchell
An A-Z of the 70 most common challenges experienced by therapeutic parents – with strategies to help you survive!
Surviving therapeutic parenting can almost be as easy as A,B,C with this popular A-Z style survival guide. Covering over 70 common issues and feelings, you can learn strategies to process your feelings and experiences as a therapeutic parent. Funny and warm, this survival guide is like a hug from another parent when you need it most.
“People who are Patronizing Ignorant Experts don’t mean to be that way. I know because I was one. When I qualified as a social worker, I’d also worked for years as a nursery nurse. What I didn’t know about behaviour charts, wasn’t worth knowing, frankly. I’d spent an enjoyable couple of years patronizing lots of lovely foster parents and adopters, telling them how they were doing it all wrong. (They weren’t. I was talking out of my arse.) I didn’t mean to be patronizing and I didn’t mean to act like an expert, it’s just that it had been kind of implied that I was during my training. Luckily, my children taught me that I was in fact a complete idiot, who knew nothing whatsoever about how to respond to children with trauma. It was a bit of a shock to be honest, and I now unreservedly apologize to all the people I patronized and railroaded into stupid decisions in the past.”
May 2022 | £16.99 | 352pp | tp | World rights available | isbN-9781839971723
The Complete Guide to Therapeutic Parenting
A Helpful Guide to the Theory, Research and What it Means for Everyday Life Jane Mitchell and Sarah Naish
This is the go-to guide for practitioners, parents and carers who want to expand their understanding and skills for therapeutic parenting – a deeply nurturing parenting style particularly effective for children who have experienced trauma or adversity.
Learn from one family’s experiences of therapeutic parenting – the hard way!
All families of children affected by trauma are on a journey, and this book will help to guide you and your family on your journey from trauma to trust.
Sarah Naish shares her own experiences of adopting five siblings. She describes how to use therapeutic parenting – a deeply nurturing parenting style – to overcome common challenges when raising children who have experienced trauma. The book describes a series of difficult episodes for her family, exploring both parent’s and child’s experiences of the same events – with the child’s experience written by a former fostered child – and in doing so reveals the very good reasons why traumatized children behave as they do. The book explores the misunderstandings that grow between parents and their children, and provides comfort to the reader – you are not the only family going through this!
Full of insights from a family and others who have really been there, this book gives you advice and strategies to help you and your family thrive.
2019 | £16.99 | 320pp | tp | World rights available | isbN-9781787750326
Therapeutic Parenting Jumbo Cards
Sarah Naish and Sarah Dillon
Illustrated by Kath Grimshaw
Colourful therapeutic parenting cards from Sarah Naish and Sarah Dillon – to help you to explore parenting and to provide inspiration!
The ideal starting point for understanding therapeutic parenting. This fully illustrated card pack uses straightforward language to explain this parenting style, covering over 40 different common issues. The perfect resource for parents, teachers and other adults, whether completely new to therapeutic parenting, or more experienced.
2021 | £19.99 | tp | World rights available | isbN-9781787757769
