This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Do you find yourself reacting to your children in ways that surprise and frustrate you?Deep-rooted patterns from your own childhood may be driving your parenting responses. Parenting Through Your Patterns reveals how early maladaptive schemas—the emotional blueprints formed in childhood—shape your reactions, decisions, and relationships with your children today.This groundbreaking guide introduces schema therapy principl...

If you or a loved one is suffering from pain caused by arthritis or inflammation, this is a great introductory book to read about these conditions.You will learn what arthritis and inflammation diseases are and how they affect the body, and also read about the causes of the disease. There is detail on how you can achieve arthritis pain relief and the methods to manage the pain such as exercises, physical therapy, and medication.It's also important ...

Summer Tuatha De Daanan will return in Deception & Desires, the epic third book in the nationally bestselling Avalon University series!

Emotion Coaching (EC) is a universal communication strategy which supports children and young people to self-regulate and manage their stress responses. Originally noticed as an effective way parents communicated with their children around challenging behaviours, Emotion Coaching has been shown to be highly successful in educational settings too. This is why the authors pioneered the research and application of Emotion Coaching into UK (primary and secondary) schools and community settings...

Sensory wellbeing is central to everything in the Early Years. This practical toolkit helps you understand how sensory experiences impact young children’s ability to play, learn and connect, and turn that understanding into everyday action, across your whole setting. Written for busy Early Years teams, the book accessibly explains the eight senses and shows how sensory profiles can look very different for each child or adult practitioner.With everything you need to create a setting...

This bestselling classic has guided thousands of students and practitioners step-by-step through the skills and theory of the person-centred approach. Fully updated, this Third Edition includes numerous new exercises and case studies, a thoroughly-revised chapter on recent debates and developments, as well as two important new chapters on:· Politics, Prejudice, Power and Privilege· Client PerceptionIt remains an essential introduction for those beginning their train...

Forty years ago in China, marriage was universal, compulsory, and a woman's only means to a livelihood. Enter the one-child policy, which despite its horrors, resulted in China's first generations of urban only-daughters?girls who were raised without brothers and pushed to study, achieve, and succeed as if they were sons. Fast forward to the present, where in an urbanized economic powerhouse, enough of these women have decided to postpone marriage?or not marry at all?to spawn a label: "lef...

Nadia Anwar presents a compelling reading framework for the study and analysis of selected post-independence Nigerian dramas, using the conceptual parameters of metatheatre, a theatrical strategy which foregrounds the process of play-making by breaking the dramatic illusion. She argues that distancing, as a function of metatheatre, creates a balanced theatrical experience and environment in terms of the emotive and cognitive levels of reception of a particular performance. Anwar's book is ...

This study investigates how Janet Frame weaves together literary sources from her extensive reading to create a web of intertextual relationships. Patricia Neville traces Frame’s passion for books beginning with her childhood and earliest published work in the Otago Daily Times. Drawing on new research and through close readings of Frame’s novels, she discusses the effects of Frame’s borrowings from the Bible and Shakespeare and from writing from New Zealand, Britain, France, and the USA. ...

From New National to World English Literature offers a personal perspective on the evolution of a major cultural movement that began with decolonization, continued with the assertion of African, West Indian, Commonwealth, and other literatures, and has evolved through postcolonial to world or international English literature. Bruce King’s extensive Introduction discusses the personalities, writers, issues, and contexts of what he considers the most important change in culture since Moderni...

By bringing in different degrees of circulation in different regions and languages, this collection shows that while literary centers do exist in what Pascale Casanova calls “the international literary space”, their power does not operate unilaterally and modes of intercultural circulation do exist beyond their control. The title “World Literature in Motion” highlights the fact that world literature is always already the product of certain modes of conceptual and material mobility and medi...

This book focuses on clarifying the adult role in early childhood education & care amongst new initiatives in the current context.