Imaginative Places E-books

By Jack Canfield

ISBN-10: 061330313X

ISBN-13: 9780613303132

ISBN-10: 1558748008

ISBN-13: 9781558748002

ISBN-10: 1558748016

ISBN-13: 9781558748019

ISBN-10: 1931951977

ISBN-13: 9781931951975

From remembering their very own existence adventure or to observing their very own childrens develop, most folks realize that the preteen years, a while 9 to 13, might be some of the most awkward instances in life-a interval of large actual and emotional swap. At this age, little ones are wanting to depart the "kid" level, but are doubtful approximately what early life will carry; they would really hearken to friends over mom and dad, and hear all too frequently to "wait until eventually you are older." fowl Soup for the Preteen Soul will advisor young children via this transition. Written via and for preteens, this uplifting choice of tales touches at the feelings and events they adventure each day: making and wasting buddies, becoming in whereas conserving their own id, researching the other intercourse, facing pressures in class together with violence, and dealing with kin matters similar to divorce. Chapters contain: On Love, On relations, On Friendship, On offerings, On alterations, On Overcoming hindrances, Eclectic knowledge, difficult Stuff, perspective and viewpoint and attaining goals. individuals comprise: *NSYNC, Mia Hamm, Beverley Mitchell and Karl Malone. even if first-time chook Soup readers or "graduates" of the bestselling child's Soul ebook, preteens are absolute to contain this of their backpacks and publication bags. Read more...

By Colin Pritchard

ISBN-10: 0335210325

ISBN-13: 9780335210329

ISBN-10: 0335210333

ISBN-13: 9780335210336

ISBN-10: 033522752X

ISBN-13: 9780335227525

Who're the kid abusers? Who kills little ones? How will we research from the to be had study to enhance the security of youngsters? baby abuse horrifies the general public, produces fierce debate within the media, and creates nervousness in even the main skilled execs. This ebook examines the on hand proof and demanding situations the myths and controversies that experience emerged during this contested quarter. the significance of the kid protection–psychiatry interface and the extremes of kid abuse murder are tested. crucial interpreting for any specialist within the box of kid safety.

By Cathy Glass

ISBN-10: 0007436645

ISBN-13: 9780007436644

From the writer of Sunday instances and manhattan instances bestseller broken, the gripping tale of a lady stuck in a awful cycle of abuse - and the determined lengths she needs to visit, to escape.

When Aisha spots an advert for a 'personal introductory carrier for professionals' within the newspaper, she may possibly by no means have guessed it's going to bring about this sort of ideal marriage. yet you have to be cautious what you need for…

Mark is sorry the 1st time he hits Aisha. His tears make her the entire extra made up our minds to be a greater spouse; to not enable herself down back. yet even though tough Aisha attempts, she can't dwell as much as Mark's most unlikely expectancies – or break out his terrifying, violent mood. quickly she is trapped in a cycle of awful abuse and imprisonment. And with teenagers to guard, Aisha needs to draw on what energy she has left to discover an escape.

What follows is whatever so devastating it plunges Aisha into her darkest days but. Is the associated fee she needs to pay for freedom too excessive?

By Lee E. Ross

ISBN-10: 1482229102

ISBN-13: 9781482229103

Anyone can develop into a sufferer of household violence. As such, it truly is crucial for we all to proceed the conflict opposed to family violence. delivering a entire evaluation of household violence throughout racial/ethnic teams, the hot version of this well known reference explores subject matters infrequently mentioned in different family violence texts in addition to the boundaries that regularly discourage sufferers from reporting abuse.

Continuing the warfare opposed to family Violence, moment Edition offers readers with the good thing about diversified views from either teachers and pros. It outlines prosecution and protection recommendations and provides a balanced critique of needed arrest rules. This absolutely revised version offers new insurance of the issues frequently encountered whilst sufferers search police aid. It contains 3 new chapters on relationship violence, faith and household violence, and old interventions in accordance with family violence.

In half I readers will achieve an figuring out of the salient concerns distinctive to yes racial/ethnic/cultural teams. half II bargains a distinct and infrequent perception into the correlates, factors, and contextual houses of household violence. half III, which constitutes the substance of this ebook, explains how legal justice systems—through their rules, methods, and operations—respond to household violence.

Following within the culture of the 1st version, this booklet devotes enormous awareness to the reports and views of felony and social justice practitioners along researchers, baby welfare employees, and different well known students throughout disciplines. providing accomplished and interdisciplinary assurance of key themes that profit a various viewers, the ebook concludes by means of delivering a special standpoint on punishing and rehabilitating offenders.

By Jeanne Gregory; Sue Lees

ISBN-10: 020305671X

ISBN-13: 9780203056714

ISBN-10: 0203273915

ISBN-13: 9780203273913

ISBN-10: 0415163870

ISBN-13: 9780415163873

ISBN-10: 0415163889

ISBN-13: 9780415163880

ISBN-10: 6610338426

ISBN-13: 9786610338429

Policing Sexual attack offers a close account of present police perform within the united kingdom according to sexual attack. The authors use case experiences and interviews to determine why while the variety of rape instances has nearly trebled when you consider that 1985, the share of situations leading to a conviction has dropped from 24% to 8.6%. Chapters hide: an outline of present examine police tradition police recording practices the position of the Crime Prosecution carrier male rape research of the judicial strategy interviews with complainants and first-hand bills in their studies proposals for reform. The authors position their findings in the context of theoretical debates approximately household and sexual violence and consider the space among reliable condemnations of male violence, as enshrined in legislations, and the realities of the sufferers' (male and feminine) reviews - wherein the violence is simply too frequently condoned.

By Sherry Hamby

ISBN-10: 0199873658

ISBN-13: 9780199873654

Battered Women's protecting innovations: improved Than You Know demanding situations the stereotypes that depict battered girls as passive and exhibits the best way to use the power of battered ladies to create larger study and intervention. The e-book additionally provides a brand new method of protection making plans for household violence, the sufferer stock of targets, suggestions, and hazards (the VIGOR), that is in accordance with a well-validated procedure referred to as a number of standards determination Making.
Through another strengths-based framework, Hamby deftly illustrates how battered ladies should not passive and in denial yet are lively and diligent in holding themselves and their household. household violence isn't just approximately actual attack. many ladies who adventure family violence additionally face the chance of homelessness or the specter of wasting custody in their childrens in a divorce conflict. realizing the complete diversity of hazards is important to knowing the advanced challenge of family violence.  This booklet finds quite a lot of protecting options: rapid shielding responses within the moments following an assault, keeping young ones and different family, achieving out for social aid, turning to spiritual and religious assets, and interesting in formal helpseeking.
Many, many suggestions are nonetheless principally invisible to companies and researchers, and the stairs that girls take that obtain little or no consciousness or acknowledgement within the family violence box. the writer identifies the very important position that researchers can play through easily acknowledging the range of methods that battered ladies hire. during this book's new experiences, survivors of household violence determine greater than a hundred and forty varied protecting concepts in open-ended questions. those and different insights from survivor testimony make this quantity the biggest and so much finished overview of battered women's strengths thus far.

By Heather Strang, John Braithwaite

ISBN-10: 0521521653

ISBN-13: 9780521521659

ISBN-10: 052181846X

ISBN-13: 9780521818469

This e-book addresses some of the most debatable issues in restorative justice: its capability for resolving conflicts inside households. It specializes in feminist and indigenous matters in relations violence which could warrant unique warning in utilizing restorative justice. whilst, it appears for methods of designing a spot for restorative interventions that reply to those issues.

By Paul Kivel

ISBN-10: 058531246X

ISBN-13: 9780585312460

ISBN-10: 1568382332

ISBN-13: 9781568382333

Sexual harassment, baby abuse, incest, rape, homicide, war--it's very unlikely at the present time to listen to a information record and never be told of violent acts perpetrated by way of males. Acknowledging that there aren't any effortless solutions to the matter of male violence--particularly in an international that turns out to thrive on aggression and actual force--Men's paintings reaches instantly to its root motives. In his ground-breaking paintings, writer Paul Kivel is helping males confront the political, social, and private forces that generate and gift misogyny, hatred, anger, and violent habit. Combining years of non-public examine and mirrored image along with his paintings with males within the Oakland Men's undertaking, Men's paintings provides an leading edge and possible method of preventing male violence. Kivel indicates males the right way to reclaim the facility and accountability had to unlearn the teachings of keep an eye on and aggression. Paul Kivel is a nationally identified specialist on men's matters. via his paintings on the Oakland Men's undertaking, he is helping males confront and alter violent behaviors and teaches choices to violence of their relationships. He additionally trains lecturers, therapists, probation officials, and company employees who paintings with males, exploring such subject matters as male/female relationships, possible choices to violence, family members violence, and sexual attack. Kivel is living in Oakland, California.

By Maia Szalavitz, Bruce D. Perry

ISBN-10: 0465056520

ISBN-13: 9780465056521

What occurs while a tender mind is traumatized? How does terror, abuse, or catastrophe impact a child's mind--and how can that brain get well? baby psychiatrist Bruce Perry has helped young ones confronted with incredible horror: genocide survivors, homicide witnesses, abducted young children, and sufferers of kin violence. In The Boy Who used to be Raised as a Dog, he tells their tales of trauma and transformation in the course of the lens of technology, revealing the brain's magnificent potential for therapeutic. Deftly combining unforgettable case histories together with his personal compassionate, insightful recommendations for rehabilitation, Perry explains what precisely occurs to the mind whilst a toddler is uncovered to severe stress-and finds the unforeseen measures that may be taken to ease a child's soreness and support him develop right into a fit grownup. in the course of the tales of youngsters who recover-physically, mentally, and emotionally-from the main devastating conditions, Perry indicates how uncomplicated such things as atmosphere, affection, language, and contact can deeply influence the constructing mind, for higher or for worse. during this deeply proficient and relocating booklet, Bruce Perry dramatically demonstrates that merely once we comprehend the technology of the brain will we desire to heal the spirit of even the main wounded baby.

By Janice L. Ristock

ISBN-10: 0203828976

ISBN-13: 9780203828977

ISBN-10: 0415998794

ISBN-13: 9780415998796

Queer lives stay on the margins of such a lot educational inquiry into family violence. while same-sex violence is taken into account, it truly is most ordinarily as an "added on," with no shut realization to the specificity and which means of violence in the lives of lesbian/ homosexual/ bisexual/ transgender/Two-Spirit and queer humans (LGBTQ). This edited quantity seeks to alter this discourse via bringing jointly the main leading edge study approximately intimate accomplice violence that's particular to the lives of LGBTQ humans. together with contributions in line with study carried out within the usa, the uk, Canada and Australia, the amount is framed round primary topics: conceptualizing violence; exploring differing areas and lived stories of violence; and the moral demanding situations of responding to violence. The members additionally ponder problems with race, classification, gender, sexuality and different social variations, relocating past an easy gender lens to 1 related to a framework of intersectionality.