My Brother’s a world class pain

Michael Gordon, Ph.D

A Siblings Guide to ADHA/Hyperactivity.

I’m Not Naughty – I’m Autistic. Jodi’s Journey.

Jean shaw

Jean Shaw, the mother of two children, is a housewife and full time carer. She hopes the story of her autistic son will not only help and reassure many other ordinary families but also educate the general public about the problems associated with autism.

Special Brothers and Sisters

Annete Hames and Monica McCaffrey

Stories and Tips for Siblings of Children with a Disability or Serious Illness.

Is it Right to Fight

Pat Thomas

A first look at conflict

The Skin I’m In

Pat Thomas

A first look at racism

My Family’s Changing

Pat Thomas

A first look at Family break-up

Don’t Call Me Special

Pat Thomas

A first look at Disability

Do I have a Daddy

Jeanne Warren Lindsay

A story about a single-parent child

Two Homes

Claire Masurel

A book about Separation and Divorce

Wishing Wellness

Lisa Anne Clarke

A Workbook for Children of Parents with Mental Illness

The out–of–sync Child

Carol Stock Kranowitz, M.A.

Recognizing and coping with Sensory Processing Disorder

All About Children

Tony Humphreys

Questions Parents Ask

Foster Placements

Ian Sinclair, Kate Wilson and Ian Gibbs

Why they succeed and why they fail

Parenting preschoolers & young Children

John Sharry, Gráinne Hampson and Mary Fanning

In Parenting Preschoolers and Young Children you will find practical advice on how to deal with the very real challenges of caring for young cildren.  As well as offering helpful tips on how to stimulate a child intellectually in terms of improved concentration and language development, it also offers sound advice on handling behavioural problems like temper tantrums and defiance

Coping with Depression in Young People a guide for parents

Carol Fitzpatrick and John Sharry

Coping with Depression in young people describes the normal steps parents go through in coming to terms with depression in their children, from first noticing something is wrong, to accessing the best professional treatment, to surviving what can be a very emotional time for the whole family.

Understanding Looked After Children - An Introduction to Psychology for Foster Care

Jeune Guishard-Pine, Suzanne McCall and Lloyd Hamilton

Understanding Looked After Children is an accessible quide to understanding the mental health needs of children in foster care and the role of foster carers and suport networks in helping these children

Issues in Foster Care: Policy, Practice and Research

Greg Kelly and Robbie Gilligan

Policy, Practice & Research assesses the current state of foster care, the pressures which have shaped it and the challenges it faces. Arguing the importance of fostering within a coherent child-care policy, the contributors examine the latest research into areas factors of foster care, and explore how practice can be improved. Topics covered include:  Measuring outcomes in foster care and what can be learned from them.

• Supporting young people making the transition from care to adulthood.
• Children's experience of foster care and how they can be helped to develop their natural resilience.
• The use of solution focused brief therapy to solve foster placement breakdown.
• Managing the behavior of children in foster care.
• Dealing with abuse and accusations of abuse.
• Kinship or relative care as an alternative form of foster care.

Adoption Undone - A painful story of an adoption breakdown

Karen Carr

Not every relationship is built to last.  But when adopters are totally committed to offering the permanence that adopted children so desperately seek, a severance of relationships between an adopted child and their adoptive parents and siblings is paticularly harrowing.