Therapeutic Residential Care For Children and Youth takes a fresh look at therapeutic residential care as a powerful intervention in working with the most troubled children who need intensive support.Featuring contributions from distinguished international contributors, it critically examines current research and innovative practice and addresses the key questions: how does it work, what are its critical “active ingredients” and does it represent value for money? The book covers a ...

A must-read for everyone and anyone in the property industry.Every property developer can master their construction finances with this ultimate handbook.Property developers want to improve the profitability of their construction projects. But when it comes to construction finance options, they are left with so many questions that need answering. Constructive Finance seeks to remove the mystique of construction finance, making it accessible to everyone. Fina...

There are times when the old way of living ends. A job, a home, or health is lost. A partner leaves, dies, or is ravaged by disease or accident. Good friends move away. You earn a promotion but instead are let go. These endings take any number of forms. You want the next phase of your life to open up before you but nothing appears. All the strategies you employ to bring instant clarity and peace fail you. You are lost, lost in your own life. This book is written for those who have lost imp...

'This is a remarkable book . . . Read it and use it: you may find you are doing nothing less than giving back to your children their childhood, while they still have the chance to live it' Mark Williams, Director, University of Oxford Mindfulness Centre and author of Mindfulness: Finding peace in a frantic world'10 Mindful Minutes can help any adult - parent, grandparent, teacher - make double use of their moments with the children they lo...

Research is as critical to social work practice as individual and group counseling skills, policy analysis, or community development. Using an approach similar to those adopted in direct practice courses, this book integrates research with social work practice and in so doing, promotes an understanding and appreciation of the research process to social work students.Sixteen case studies adapted from actual events and case files illustrate different research approaches, including qua...

Wealth and abundance are our divine right, learn to embrace prosperity with #1 New York Times bestselling author Marianne Williamson – preorder her latest, The Mystic Jesus, picking up where A Return to Love left offIn The Law of Divine Compensation, revered spiritual guide Marianne Williamson teaches the spiritual principles for how, with faith in God’s promise of love and abundance for all, we need never fear the future.There are two realms that...

"I am most excited and impressed with the scope and focus of this work. As I began to read it, I had trouble putting it down. It is highly readable, engaging, all-inclusive, and most informative."Jean Watson, RN, PhD, HNC, FAAN"I am honored and delighted to recommend this text for all nurses who cared for and care about patients."from the Foreword by May Wykle, RN, PhD, FAANThis book places comfort at the forefront of nursing care, by presenting a carefully re...

What About Now? Reminders for Being in the Moment. The secret to happiness is moving out of the mind and learning to delight in each moment. In What About Now, you will find over 150 quotes from Gina Lake's books—Choosing, Embracing the Now, Radical Happiness, and others—that will inspire and enable you to be more present. These empowering quotes will wake you up out of your ordinary consciousness and help you live with more love, contentment, gratitude, and awe. Here is a sample: "Watch t...

This inspirational book delivers messages of healing, awareness, and well-being. A companion to the popular DailyOM Website, it is a valuable guide that will enable you to find balance and wellness through conscious awareness. As you read these passages, which touch on topics including meditation, relationships, nature, and more, you’ll see that they’ll make the journey of your life much more meaningful.The gentle and affirming wisdom contained within these pages i...

The***International Guide to Student Achievement*** brings together and critically examines the major influences shaping student achievement today. There are many, often competing, claims about how to enhance student achievement, raising the questions of "What works?" and "What works best?" World-renowned bestselling authors, John Hattie and Eric M. Anderman have invited an international group of scholars to write brief, empirically-supported articles that examine predictors of academic ac...

By the bestselling author of Leadership and the New Science and Turning to One AnotherThoughtful, compassionate reflections on how we can carry on with joy despite difficulties, challenges, and disappointmentsIlluminated by both beautiful original paintings and by poems and quotations from a variety of traditions and culturesIn this inspiring and beautifully illustrated book, bestselling author Margaret Wheatley offers guidance to people everywhere for how to persevere...

Emotional Chaos to Clarity recognises the inevitability of life's challenges and offers you the tools to find clarity, resilience and calm to cope even at our darkest hours. Balancing Phillip Moffitt's influences of Western psychology and Buddhist philosophy, each chapter introduces a mind state that prevents us from living skilfully, narrates stories from Moffitt's hundreds of students and clients, and provides step-by-step exercises for readers to find clarity in their own lives...