Set against the context of a changing professional landscape, this book examines the journey of the authors, Jo and Diana, as they transitioned from working in the National Health Service (NHS) to setting up an independent practice following redundancy. Highlighting both the benefits and challenges, the authors outline the steps they took to move from survival mode and crisis management to a position of stability and success.This book provides readers with a wealth of practical adv...

Speech and language impairment can have a huge impact on cognitive development. Identifying what is going wrong - and what effective intervention looks like - can be daunting. Short of retraining you as a speech and language therapist, this thorough guide will give you everything you need to change that.An essential resource, the book contains a wide variety of online resources, including phonological and sound awareness documents, assessment tools, and recording forms that can be ...

With cities striving to meet sustainable development goals, circular urban systems are gaining momentum, especially in Europe.This research-based book defines the circular city and circular development. It explains the shift in focus from a purely economic concept, which promotes circular business models in cities, to one that explores a new approach to urban development. This approach offers huge opportunities and addresses important sustainability issues: resource consum...

This book explores the importance of effective multi-agency and multi-disciplinary partnership work for the mental health of children and young people in care and adoption. It takes an overall systemic perspective, but the co-authors contribute different theoretical approaches. It focuses on practice, showing how practitioners can draw on their varied theoretical approaches to enhance the way they work together and in partnership with carers and with professionals from other agencies. The ...

God created a perfect world and pronounced it "good." Where has that world gone? The standard answer is that we have sinned, fallen short of the glory of God, and royally screwed it up. Yet is man capable of putting asunder what God wills and creates perfect? Some will find the hypothesis in Miracles: Take the FreeWay blasphemous. Some will find it a source of unprecedented hope. No one who reads it will ever see the world again in quite the same way.Our current rationale and approa...

How will the world end? Or will it? The Reverend Eve Webster is about to find out. Behold the Dawn offers a radical counter, a metaphysical alternative to the evangelical take of the Left Behind series.As a series of catastrophes paralyzes the world, Eve Webster follows compelling intuition that she is to be instrumental in a pivotal transition for humankind. But first she must make an agonizing choice. Her fiance, Owen Brodie, refuses to leave his successful law practice in Charlo...

A beautifully written love story, The Song draws the reader into a provocative epic of self-discovery, a tightly layered tale of joy and sorrow, remorse and renewal.Mayeve Taylor embarks on life in a three-stoplight Southern town in the fifties. In the dead letter that is her life, she discovers a friend who changes her view of the world—Champ, a black youth with knowledge of things beyond his years. In spite of the times, Champ and Mayeve forge a devoted friendship. When Mayeve's ...

One Thought from Heaven unfurls the epic tale of one man's journey from victim to victor. Orphaned at two years of age, Seth Smith finds little connection in life beyond his his daily vigils as an ER nurse in Manhattan. His only "night life" is an on-going Internet chat with a heart-stoppingly beautiful young woman in Seoul, Korea. Then an encounter with best friend Pearlie Stamper's assailant hurls him into the mystic world of the Gullah, where he meets a couple of eccentric elders who le...

Devastated by the death of her friend Mr. Bill, Terri moves on through the process of helping his son clear up the issues of his estate as best she can. Moving day brought on many emotions as they packed up her friends house and put it on the market before foreclosure could happen. As time progressed for his memorial service, things in her house began to get a little wonky. The printer went nuts when she was printing off the copies for his memorial service and things kept getting ...

“Chilling, compelling suspense . . . be prepared to lose sleep” with this first in the thriller series featuring Ozarks detective Claire Morgan (Eileen Dreyer, New York Times bestselling author).With Every Turn in the Case . . .After moving from Los Angeles to Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, homicide detective Claire Morgan has at last adjusted to the peaceful rhythms of rural life. Until a grisly celebrity murder at an ultra-exclusi...

Psychometric testing just got easierWe can measure how tall someone is, how strong they are or how fast they can run. But is it also possible to evaluate an individual's character traits, how they think and how they mightreact in a given situation? With psychometric tests, we can.Most people feel some trepidation at just the thought of taking a psychometric test. These tests can also be a source of anxiety for those who have never administered them before. I...

This second edition is a step by step practical guide to counselling skills for trainees and practitioners. It presents key skills clearly and concisely.