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The Positively Awesome Journal is packed with creative and colourful activities designed to help you find your sunshine and focus on self-care. In this journal, illustrator, author and self-care advocate Stacie Swift will encourage and equip you with the insights and tools you need to brighten even the greyest days.With her refreshingly honest and down-to-earth attitude to positivity and mental well-being, Stacie's tips and tasks remind you that you matter, too. Make your way through each promp...

'Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.' Voltaire Are you struggling to focus on anything but your Valentine? Is your mind awhirl with thoughts of your beloved? Take a few moments out of your busy day’s pining and soothe your loved-up mind with these beautiful illustrations to colour and enjoy. Colour, create and keep calm!

Cats can be the perfect remedy for today's stressful life. They fascinate us, amuse us, and melt our hearts: how can one resist those big eyes and that furry little face? Discover dozens of ways to draw on the power of cats to help us relax and to reinforce this special feline bond that brings us so much well-being. Downloadable audio offers 30 minutes of various cats purring, so you can take advantage of that soothing sound wherever you are, even if you don’t have a cat (yet)! Enjoy information...

The Accessible Game Book contains games specifically chosen or adapted for mixed groups including people with auditory or visual impairments, those in wheelchairs, and those with multiple disabilities. The games can also be used as a means of improving disability awareness among the non-disabled, and have been used successfully in the rehabilitation of stroke victims and groups of people of all abilities and ages.Each game is explained clearly, with symbols to indicate the level of ability, sugg...

Inspiring Motivation in Children and Youth: How to Nurture Environments for Learning explores motivation and its crucial role in promoting well-being in the classroom and life beyond school. It will help all those who work with children and youth to understand and improve their motivation, and to create nurturing environments for younger people. David Bergin provides a highly accessible exploration of key research, examining the ways children’s goals, self-efficacy, self-determination, and feel...

Asian Tsunami and Social Work Practice presents an inside look at the complicated nature of disaster preparedness and how it relates to poverty, trauma, community development, and service delivery systems. Health, human services, and mental health professionals from countries still reeling from the devastations of the Asian Tsunami of 2004 reflect on the challenges facing survivors, the effects of the disaster, and interventions by the community and social work professionals. This unique book of...

Is self-isolating driving you mad? Do you need something soothing to distract you from the news? Discover some peace and tranquillity within the pages of this book, where you'll find a range of beautiful patterns and intricate designs to colour in and quieten your mind. Colour, create and keep calm!

Representing one of the most visionary concepts about occupational therapy practice and education available today, Occupational Science: The Foundation for New Models of Practice introduces the notion of a basic science of occupation. Specifically, this provocative volume proposes that the profession of occupational therapy, in collaboration with other relevant scientific disciplines, develop a science of occupation that would provide a foundation for occupational therapy practice. The developme...