| |
|
|
 |
Publications - manuals |
 |
|
| MENTAL HEALTH CARE OF HELPERS |
Title:
Mental Health Care of Helpers
Editors:
Dean Ajduković, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of Zagreb
Marina Ajduković, Ph.D., School of Social Work, University of Zagreb
Contributors:
Ajduković, D., Ajduković, M., Arambašić, L., Bezić, I., Pregrad, J., Vizek-Vidović, V.
Reviewers:
Mirjana Krizmanić, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of Zagreb
Anne-Marie Miorner Wagner, M.D., Omega Graz
Year of publication: 2000
Language: English
ISBN: 953-6353-12-1
Format: 21 cm; 132 pages
Price: € 13.00
|
| Empowering Children: Psychosocial Assistance Under Difficult Circumstances |
Title:
Empowering Children: Psychosocial Assistance Under Difficult Circumstances
Editor:
Dean Ajduković, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Associate editor:
Paramjit T. Joshi, M.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Contributors:
Ajduković, D., Ajduković, M., Crnković, A., Čevizović, M., Delale E.A., Družić, O., Dujić, N., Đurović, M., Gredelj, Grgurević, M., Grl, M., Z., Janković, Joshi, T.P., J., Kačavenda, M., Kajiš, V., Kletečki, M., Kocijan-Hercigonja, D., Košćec Žuknić A., Kusić, D., Kuterovac Jagodić, G., Mandić, Ž., Marinković, Z., Osmak, D., Pavić, B., Petković, N., Pregrad, J., Urli, A., Stanković, N., Šuvak, I., Važanić, D., Vizek Vidović V.
Reviewers:
Robert N. Hubbell, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist, Cannon City, Colorado, USA
Lark Eshleman, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Year of publication: 1999
Language: English
ISBN: 953-6353-08-3
Format: 24 cm; 224 pages; with illustrations
Price: € 19.00
Contents:
Part I: The Distressed Child.
Psychosocial Assistance to Children; Normal Development and Common Problems in Children; Recognizing Normal and Abnormal Behavior in Traumatized Children; Hyperactive and Aggressive Children; How to Help Aggressive Children; Grief and Mourning in Children; Depressive and Anxiety Disorders in Children; Adolescents Traumatized by Organized Violence; Assessment of Children's Mental Health and Behavior; Family as a Support System to Children; Group Work with Distressed Children; Helping Children in Collective Centers: Source of Gratification and Stress.
Part II: Psychosocial Assistance Programs to Children.
The Role of Spare Time in Normalizing Distressed Children's Lives; Daily Playshop for Preschool Children; dance Workshop; dance Group (techno); Papier Mache Workshop; Paper Workshop; workshop for Making Puppets; Writing and Journalism Workshop; Games and Quizzes; Sports Activities (Soccer training); Preschool; Addressing School Problems in Adolescence; Creative Socialization Group for Children; Socialization Group for Younger Elementary School Children; Socialization Group for Older Elementary School Children; Socialization Group for Boys; Helping Children With Enuresis (Uncontrolled Urination); Helping Children with Reading Difficulties; References.
This manual was written for the non-professional and para-professional providers of services to children. The theoretical background in the first part is presented in simple words, not using the professional jargon. It serves the readers to understand better the background in which the practical interventions programs were developed and the reasons for each program. In the second part, based on the best practices, practical programs are described in such details that they can be readily applied. However, each program can also serve as a model that can be modified, expanded or adapted to the specific needs and circumstances. Although the manual was written having in mind refugee children, it has been widely distributed and appreciated by hundreds of providers that work with children in any other kind of distress or grow up under unfavorable circumstances. Available also in Croatian. |
| IT IS OK TO BE SAD |
Title: It is O.K. to be sad - OUT OF STOCK !!!
Author: Guni Martin
Illustrations: Kuno Pape
Translation: Vesna Arsovski
Year of publication: 1997
Language: Croatian
ISBN: 953-6353-06-7
Format: 24 cm; 48 pages; with illustrations
Circulation: 1000 copies
Price: € 6.50
Contents:
Foreword to Croatian edition; Foreword; Zozo the Rabbit and the Sunflower; When I was a little girl; When David is sad.
This book at the first glance differs from other books published by the Society for Psychological Assistance written to grown-up care-providers. It is devoted to children who have faced losses. To share loss with a child is extremely difficult because it confronts us more than anything else with our own helplessness and destroys our self-image of protectors and steady leaders through life. In order to avoid our own and child's helplessness feeling we "protect" him either not talking about loss or consoling him with words "Don't cry, everything is going to be all right, you have to be brave". By doing so, we send him an implicit message that he shouldn't be sad and that he is not O.K if he does. So, we are facing him, in a difficult moment of adaptation to loss, with another very difficult task - how to cope with all those feelings all by himself and secretly. Grieving is natural healing and we have to support it.
With this book we wanted to draw attention to children's need for open and frank support in grieving. But not only that. Understanding and acknowledging adults' reasons for not being ready and/or not knowing how to support grieving children, we decided to offer this simple and sincere book as their passport which will help them to pass Rubikon of their own fear and anxiety and to enter the world of children's sadness. It can teach adults (care-providers, grand-fathers and grand-mothers, parents) to talk about death and losses, to yield themselves openly and with acceptance to the natural grieving process, both children's and their own. As in many other areas, in the realm of grief as well, we can learn a lot from and with children, if we allow them to lead us genuinely and spontaneously as they know, and show us how to take care of them.
"It is O.K. to be sad" is a simple and sincere children's book about the Sunflower which withered, about his friend Zozo the Rabbit who was very sad and lonely and about wise Awl which patiently and discreetly cared of him, about David and his grandma who had learned to swallow sadness while been a little girl, what made her feel sick in her stomach. Besides simple drawings, the book is illustrated with specifically shaped spaces for the owner of the book to express her/his emotions and thoughts by drawing, colouring or writing. Our colleagues (psychologists, social workers, pre-school teachers) who have used this book in cases of loos, witnessed to us that it help them to proceed smoothly, even in cases where they were stuck. They used it in individual and group work with different age groups, including pre-school age.
Intensity of war suffering and losses urged us, care-providers, to support grieving children more substantially. This book is part of such support, but we believe that it will help grown-ups and children to face "normal life" losses, as well. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
