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Dramatherapy with Children, Young People and Schools: Enabling Creativity, Sociability, Communication and Learning
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Leigh, Lauraine, Ed.; Gersch, Irvine, Ed.; Dix, Ann, Ed.; Haythorne, Deborah, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
"Dramatherapy with Children, Young People and Schools" is the first book to specifically evaluate the unique value of dramatherapy in the educational environment. A variety of highly experienced dramatherapists, educational psychologists and childhood experts discuss the benefits to the children and young people, and also in relation to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Needs, Educational Psychology, Academic Achievement
Learning To Say Goodbye: Dealing with Death and Dying.
Peck, Rosalie; Stefanics, Charlotte – 1987
This book is intended to help the counselor learn to work with terminal patients. The first part presents historical and cultural attitudes toward death and dying. Fear of death, the role of religion, and common myths about terminal cancer patients are discussed. The second part deals with care and treatment of terminal patients. The significance…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cancer, Counselor Role, Counselors
Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft.
Hopkins-Best, Mary – 1997
Based on concern about the lack of information on adopting toddlers, this book examines the special needs of adopted toddlers and their adoptive parents. Chapter 1, "Why Write a Book on Toddler Adoption?" details the lack of information on the difficulties of adopted toddlers in forming attachments and parents' child rearing…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Adoption, Adoptive Parents, Agencies
Death Education for the Health Professional.
Benoliel, Jeanne Quint, Ed. – 1982
The perspectives of a number of health professionals based on their experiences in providing death education courses are presented in essays. In "Interdisciplinary Death Education in a Nursing School" (Helen L. Swain and Kathleen V. Cowles), the development of an undergraduate elective course in death, dying, and bereavement at the…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Cancer, Course Content, Course Descriptions
A Child's Journey through Placement.
Fahlberg, Vera I. – 1994
Although much is available in the child welfare literature about families and casework process and procedures, there is little literature available that has the child as its primary focus. This book focuses on a child's feelings, needs, and behaviors once the decision has been made to place the child in foster care. Several themes evident…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Problems, Caregiver Child Relationship, Caseworker Approach
The Crisis Manual for Early Childhood Teachers: How To Handle the Really Difficult Problems.
Miller, Karen – 1996
More and more teachers report the increasing incidence of crises in children's lives, crises that interfere with the child's ability to learn. Noting that developmentally appropriate curricula must respond to the issues of immediate concern and interest to children, this source book assists teachers in facing difficult issues in the classroom and…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Role, Caregivers