Caroline Archer sets out to provide adoptive and foster parents with an
understanding of the complex range of difficulties with which their children
may struggle as a result of their early experience of adversity. She presents
strategies to help parents deal with their youngsters' troubling behaviour, in
what seems to them a hostile world.
A must have book for both adoptive parents and for those professionals who
help adoptive families forge new family ties...the author, herself an adoptive
parent, addresses a wide variety of very complex topics with a marked
sensitivity to the varying needs of children who may have had a wide range of
early life experiences.
Fostered and adopted children can present major challenges resulting from
unresolved attachment issues and early traumatic experiences. This book
provides a variety of complementary perspectives on the needs of these
children and their families, focusing on ways of integrating attachment theory
and developmental psychology into effective practice. schovat popis
Most adopted children and their families will, sooner or later, encounter the
challenges of dealing with unresolved attachment issues or early traumatic
experiences. This book is an accessible introduction to understanding these
challenges and helping children and their families to develop a shared
language and understanding of one another.
An accessible guide to help foster and adoptive parents understand the
neurobiological issues that affect children who have experienced early trauma.
It demystifies the science behind child trauma, explains why conventional
parenting won't work for these children and provides grounded advice on what
will, addressing common parenting dilemmas.
Letterpress Past, Present, Future brings together scholars, curators, collectors and printers to assess the current state of letterpress printing. It acknowledges the decline of letterpress as a commercial printing technique and considers the risks this poses for letterpress’s future. However, in describing the many uses to which letterpress is put and the diverse communities of printers who still work with it, the book celebrates the tenacity of letterpress as a process which continues to thrive despite such challenges. Letterpress Printing examines the continuing life of letterpress and applauds its revival through describing the circumstances in which it flourishes and the many ways it is now used. By setting this revival in the context of its ostensible decline, the book sets out the ways in which current practice draws upon and preserves the history of printing while taking it in new and unexpected directions.
"This book is concerned with the eighteenth-century typographer, printer, industrialist and Enlightenment figure, John Baskerville (1707-75). Baskerville was a Birmingham inventor, entrepreneur and artist with a worldwide reputation who made eighteenth-century Birmingham a city without typographic equal, by changing the course of type design. Baskerville not only designed one of the world's most historically important typefaces, he also experimented with casting and setting type, improved the construction of the printing press, developed a new kind of paper and refined the quality of printing inks. His typographic experiments put him ahead of his time, had an international impact and did much to enhance the printing and publishing industries of his day. Yet despite his importance, fame and influence many aspects of Baskerville's work and life remain unexplored and his contribution to the arts, industry, culture and society of the Enlightenment are largely unrecognized."-- Provided by publisher