This practical text supports the learning and application of communication and basic counselling and enhances the value of even the shortest exchange by showing how essential skills of attention, reflective listening and positive use of communication skills, support a helping and respectful approach to clients.

Mastering Counselling Skills (Palgrave Master Series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Lindon, Jennie

Psychology & Counseling

Palgrave

This book shows how the principles of good organisation, management, communication and teamwork can be applied in child care and education. Whatever the early years setting - local authority children's centre, family centre, private, community or workplace nursery, playgroup, nursery school, after-school or holiday play scheme - the book gives practical guidance on how adults can work together effectively for the benefit of young children. The book covers four NVQ/SVQ level 3 endorsements: group care and education; family day care; pre-school provision; family support; and two at level 2: work in a pre-school group; work in a community-run pre-school group. It is also relevant to CACHE-accredited and BTEC awards, and to GNVQ Health and Social Care.

Working Together for Young Children: Macmillan Caring Series

Business & Money

Delmar Pub

Understanding Child Development is refreshingly clear, readable, and user-friendly. With explanations of the key theories and research in all areas of child development, this is the ideal resource for students at Levels 3 and 4 on Foundation and Early Childhood Studies Degrees.

Understanding Child Development Linking Theory and Practice (A Hodder Arnold Publication)

Hodder Arnold

Written by Jennie Lindon, the bestselling Early Years author, Understanding Children and Young People: Development from 5-18 Years is refreshingly clear and readable, and makes the links between theory and practice in a very user-friendly way -- this is crucial for good practice. It covers every conceivable developmental issue from 5-18 years, providing excellent coverage of the mid-childhood and adolescent years, including topics such as: - Children and young people in society. What is growing up? What transitions do young people face? - Personal and social development. Identity; friendships and family; play and leisure activities; relationships; part-time work; social, cultural, faith allegiances, and possible conflicts - Emotional development and patterns of behavior. Feelings, thoughts, behaviour, brain development, emotional, moral and spiritual development; educational and other transitions; supportive adults - Communication and thinking. Spoken/written language; communication; cognitive development - Physical growth and development. Physical activity; healthy habits; puberty; pregnancy; sexual awareness/orientation; medical issues - Self-reliance and independence. Responsibility and involvement, making life decisions, independence, transitions into higher education, the world of work, issues of unemployment - Vulnerability in childhood and adolescence. Personal safety and assessing risk; peer pressures, bullying, substance abuse, smoking, alcohol, child protection, legal and practical issues, looked-after children Understanding Children and Young People: Development from 5-18 Years covers all these key topics through broad developmental themes, making this an informative and valuable resource for students and practitioners involved with children, young people, and families at all levels.

Understanding Children and Young People: Development from 5-18 Years (A Hodder Arnold Publication)

Hodder Education Publishers

Safeguarding Children and Young People is essential reading for all practitioners involved with 0-18 year olds anywhere within the UK and for students learning about this crucial area of good practice. This fully revised third edition of Jennie Lindon's best-selling Child Protection book covers recent developments in legislation and guidance. The book takes a well-considered approach to daily practice for professionals taking responsibility for children and young people in early years provision, schools, out-of-school settings, play and leisure activities. Topics covered include: legislation and key guidance that affect England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Island; continuity for good practice in safeguarding across the UK, including working well with other professionals and partnership with families; the role and responsibilities for practitioners who spend time with children and young people in the wide range of provision; important developments for safeguarding, such as safety on the internet and increased awareness of the impact of domestic violence; a balanced approach to dilemmas, such as practitioners' anxiety over physical contact with children and young people, and how equality practice needs to work alongside effective child protection. Safeguarding Children and Young People provides exploration of these complex issues in the context of a full 0-18 years age range, supporting recent developments in National Occupational Standards. Jennie Lindon is an experienced trainer and consultant who has worked extensively with services for children and their families and with residential and foster cares. A prolific author, her most recent books for Hodder Arnold have been Understanding Children and Young People and Equality in Childhood.

Safeguarding Children and Young People Child Protection 0-18 Years

Working with young children: Encouraging their development and dealing with problems

E. Arnold

This text covers the core units of the Level 2 awards in child care and education, and the endorsements on feeding babies, caring for babies and working with parents in a group for young children. It also covers the requirements on child care of GNVQ/Level 2 in health and social care. Each of the nine chapters deals with a particular area of child care, with a wide variety of activities to help put the principles into practice. The language is straightforward, and issues of gender, cultural and racial awareness in caring for young children are handled sensitively and practically. The book gives a sound basis of support for trainees at NVQ/SBQ Level 2, and lays the foundation for training to Level 3, as covered in the companion text by the Lindons, "Caring for the Under-8s: Working to Achieve Good Practice".

Caring for Young Children

Lindon, Lance

Negrini, Leandra

Parenting & Relationships

Macmillan Co. of Australia

Playwork: A Guide to Good Practice

Politics & Social Sciences

Bonel, Paul

Social Sciences

Nelson Thornes

Approved by SPRITO, this text is fully revised throughout to reflect the latest thinking and practice, and is based upon the National Occupational Standards.

Good Practice in Playwork 3rd Edition

Teen & Young Adult

Oxford University Press

Jennie Lindon explains all the key approaches to studying child development in a straightforward way that helps students understand the links between theories and their learning and practice. Experienced practitioners will find that the material supports continuing professional development.

Understanding Child Development: Linking Theory and Practice

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