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Innocent is the shocking true story of little Molly and Kit, siblings, aged 3 years and 18 months, who are brought into care as an emergency after suffering non-accidental injuries. Aneta and Filip, the children’s parents, are distraught when their children are taken into care. Aneta maintains...

Finding Stevie is a dark and poignant true story that highlights the dangers lurking online. When Stevie’s social worker tells Cathy, an experienced foster carer, that Stevie, 14, is gender fluid she isn’t sure what that term means and looks it up. Stevie, together with his younger brother...

Just when Casey thinks her foster care duties are done, she’s asked to look after Sam, a troubled nine-year-old with a violent streak who drove his previous guardians to release him of their care. It soon unfolds, however, that this is no simple case. Determined to get to the root of Sam’s behaviour, Casey is committed to uncover his mysterious past only to find out something far darker than she ever imagined.

Casey Watson is back, doing the job she does best - rolling up her sleeves and fostering the children who, on first meeting, seem like hopeless cases. But when she meets Miller and discovers the truth about his disturbing childhood, even Casey begins to doubt if this child will ever be able to accept love. Found naked and alone on a railway track, Miller was just five when he was first admitted into the care system. 

In this poignant, wry, and powerful memoir, Nunn links the politics of Black Power to the movements for Black lives and dignified reentry today. His story underscores the power of coalition building, persistence in the face of backlash, and the importance of centering the voices of experience in the fight for freedom-and proves, once and for all, that jailbirds can fly.

Die 10 wichtigsten Tipps für einen erfolgreichen Start in die Berufswelt. Dieser Ratgeber vermittelt die 10 wichtigsten Erfolgsfaktoren rund um den Berufseinstieg und die ersten Berufsjahre. Besonders wertvoll sind die persönlichen Erfahrungen der Autorin, die angesichts der Erfolge und Misserfolge ihrer eigenen ersten Berufsjahre in großen internationalen Unternehmen ein Fazit zieht und ihre Erkenntnisse und Beobachtungen offen teilt. Mit diesem Wissens- und Erfahrungsvorsprung gelingt es jedem, den Karrierestart erfolgreich zu meistern und die eigenen beruflichen Weichen von Anfang an richtig zu stellen.

CAMS provides proven tools to help clinicians of any orientation evaluate suicidal risk and develop a suicide-focused treatment plan. In addition to their clinical utility, the procedures used for assessment, stabilization, and treatment of suicidal risk within CAMS can help reduce the risk of malpractice liability. The third edition features major updates based on ongoing clinical research, increased focus on implementation with adolescents; and guidance for effectively using CAMS via telehealth.

Trauma-Informed Communication With Parents, Caregivers & Families is a practical, bilingual (English/Spanish) guide for professionals working in Child Protective Services (CPS), domestic violence, and high-stress family environments. It offers clear, actionable tools to help you communicate effectively, reduce conflict, and support safe, positive outcomes.

Are you a social worker, CPS professional, domestic violence advocate, educator, or multilingual staff supporting children affected by trauma? Trauma-Informed Communication & Support for Professionals Working with Children is a bilingual audiobook guide to helping children feel safe, heard, & empowered.

Effective, compassionate trauma-informed communication is essential for professionals in CPS, domestic violence, and child welfare settings. This bilingual (English/Spanish) audiobook provides practical strategies, scripts, and tools to help you communicate safely, respectfully, and empathetically — always honoring the individual's pace, choices, and autonomy.

Three first responders – a paramedic, a police officer and a firefighter – are motivated by a desire to serve the community. But they are drawn to their work by more complicated impulses as well: a need for control, an acute awareness of danger and childhood experiences they are still running from. Peter, a paramedic, served at high-profile disasters including the Port Arthur massacre and the Beaconsfield mine collapse. Despite helping countless people, he is haunted by the lives he couldn't save. Tara, a firefighter, experienced devastating loss at a young age.

For thirteen years, Tina Strambler lived within the foster care system-navigating instability, loss, and the quiet strength required to survive without permanence. This powerful memoir offers an honest and hopeful exploration of what it means to grow up searching for belonging while carrying the weight of childhood trauma. Through deeply personal reflection, Tina recounts her journey through foster homes, therapy, and the relationships that shaped her path.

The Urgency of Black Madness is a bold, uncompromising intervention in contemporary debates on race, racism, and Black identity. Drawing on history, philosophy, politics, and lived experience across Africa, Europe, and America, Prof. George Nyamndi challenges dominant narratives that locate racism solely in external oppression rather than internal reckoning. Arguing that racism is not merely prejudice but weaponized race, Nyamndi calls for a radical paradigm shift: from perpetual victimhood to collective responsibility, from lamentation to production, from accusation to creative awakening.

The Psychology of Construction explores the human reality behind building sites — the minds, emotions, motivations and invisible wounds of those who build. Through real stories, philosophical reflection and practical insight, Fernando Jorge Marques Lopes reveals how dignity, trust, language, scarcity, leadership and purpose shape not only projects, but lives. Drawing from decades of experience on construction sites and informed by psychology, sociology and philosophy, this book shows that productivity and humanity are not opposites — they are deeply connected.

Learn the connections between social identity, racial trauma, and mental health. With empathy and expertise, Archer encourages us to explore complex trauma through an Anti-Racist Psychotherapy lens. In his down-to-earth style, mixing personal stories and therapeutic insights, Archer welcomes you on a transformational journey that’s fresh, comprehensive, and unapologetically anti-oppressive.

This practical guide helps therapists from virtually any specialty or theoretical orientation choose and adapt mindfulness practices most likely to be effective with particular patients, while avoiding those that are contraindicated. The authors provide a wide range of meditations that build the core skills of focused attention, mindfulness, and compassionate acceptance. Vivid clinical examples show how to weave the practices into therapy, tailor them to each patient's needs, and overcome obstacles.

Finally, an audiobook for people who want to make the world a better place without losing themselves in the process. In 'The Little Book of Mindful Social Change' you are invited to reimagine activism and social change — not as a battle driven by anger or exhaustion but as a grounded, compassionate and sustainable practice rooted in presence, care and clarity. This gentle yet powerful guide explores how inner transformation and social transformation are deeply connected.

ONE REMARKABLE WOMAN. OVER 30 YEARS OF FOSTERING. CARER TO MORE THAN 150 CHILDREN. Can Cathy help troubled Lily sort her life out and piece together the truth? Late on boxing day, Cathy hears a strange noise outside her house, only to find Lily, a child she fostered ten years ago, shivering on...

When studying social work, it can be difficult to find the time to step back and think about what it actually means to be a social worker. Now in its third edition, How to Be a Social Worker critically examines the knowledge base of social work and encourages you to explore how your own values...

Domestic Violence and Child Protective Services: A Trauma-Informed Bilingual Training & Communication Manual is a practical English–Spanish resource for professionals supporting survivors and families involved with CPS. Designed for caseworkers, advocates, social workers, and multilingual staff, this guide provides clear bilingual terminology, trauma-informed scripts, and communication tools that help reduce fear, build trust, and support safety.