Product Description: A collaborative therapeutic approach often proves the best way to assess and meet the needs of children experiencing barriers to learning. This book gives a concise overview of drama and family therapy and describes how both therapies can work together to provide essential pieces of the jigsaw of emotional support for troubled children within an educational setting...read more

Product Description: Neuro-Dramatic-Play and Healthy Attachments breaks new ground in the areas of attachment and child development. Based on sound experience and observation, Sue Jennings consolidates current theories of attachment and therapeutic intervention; expands the often narrow view of what is understood by attachment; challenges the psychoanalytic ideas of child development and attachment and makes a strong case for early years adoption of arts and play therapies...read more

Product Description: Dramatherapy and Social Theatre: Necessary Dialogues considers the nature of drama, theatre and dramatherapy, examining how dramatherapy has evolved over the past decade and how the relationship between dramatherapy and social theatre has developed as a result...read more

Product Description: Describes the mythology and symbolism of seventy goddesses from a wide range of cultures around the world. This title enables the reader to find out more about their own elements and lights, through their connection with one or more goddesses.

This text includes examiners' tips on preparing for and sitting the exam and explains how case studies should be used. It also contains double-page spreads, which contain key information for revising each area of subject content.

This series has been designed to assist in the delivery of the National Strategy Framework for Teaching Mathematics. This Year 8 student book has double page spreads structured with an objective, starter activity, main teaching activity and final plenary.

Developed to match the revised AQA C specification from September 2001, this text offers integrated Key Skills and ICT and decision-making exercises as well as exam practice questions. There are relevant case studies at a range of scales for study material on key issues.

Product Description: Dramatherapy is now well-established and widely used in a variety of settings with diverse groups of people. In this book, Sue Jennings presents a 'healing theatre' approach to dramatherapy, showing how it is part of our total cultural experience of theatre art, and how it can be used to find a bearable means of facing the beast at the heart of the labyrinth...read more

Product Description: Developing the basic principles of her model of playtherapy, Sue Jennings has written a stimulating book that will provide inspiration for those new to the discipline, whilst providing a fresh and exciting approach for established practitioners...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Developing the basic principles of her model of playtherapy, Sue Jennings has written a stimulating book that will provide inspiration for those new to the discipline, whilst providing a fresh and exciting approach for established practitioners...read more

Dealing with the teaching of Mathematics, this is one of a series written for students working towards Qualified Teacher Status. Each title provides a systematic and detailed guide to the subject-knowledge requirements of the Initial Teacher Training National Curriculum (ITTNC).

Product Description: This text incorporates 150 ideas for drama in one practical manual. It is designed to aid people in the running of drama sessions creatively, enjoyably, and effectively.

Product Description: The third volume of Dramatherapy: Theory and Practice brings the reader up-to-date with the latest developments in the profession of dramatherapy and tackles key issues in contemporary social relationships. It shows how dramatherapy is evolving its own theory and methodology as well as specific models for supervision and assessment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Sue Jennings and her three children spent two years on a fieldwork expedition to the Senoi Temiar people of Malaysia: Theatre, Ritual and Transformation is a fascinating account of that experience. She describes how the Temiar regularly perform seances which are enacted through dreams, dance, music and drama, and explains that they see the seance as playing a valuable preventative role in people's lives, as well as being a medium of healing and cure...read more

Product Description: Drama plays a crucial role in healthy human development and dramatherapy can be particularly effective in helping troubled children or adolescents. In this book, twelve contributors, writing from a range of international and theoretical perspectives, show how the dramatic element in people's lives plays its part in patterns of healthy and unhealthy development...read more

The book explores the relationship and differences between art therapy and dramatherapy, based on eight years of research and practice in training, clinical practice and theory. The first part of the book explores the theoretical ground on which the arts therapies are based, the history and practice of the two therapies, the relationship between creativity and imagination and therapeutic processes, and the implications of the development of the multi-professional creative team for training and clinical practice. The second half of the book describes five major themes that have been developed in work with students and patients, making use of dominant symbols and mythology.