Reviews

20 July 2008

Books, web sites, DVDs and other resources for professionals, reviewed by professionals.

Get Out of My Life ... But First Take Me and Alex Into Town

Reviewed by Wook Hamilton, project manager at Parenting and Training Projects, Trust for the Study of Adolescence.

Tony Wolf and Suzanne Franks Profile Books 9781846680878 £8.99 288 pages

Help Your Child or Teen Get Back on Track

Reviewed by Claire Usiskin, policy and communications officer at YoungMinds' parents information service.

Kenneth H. Talan Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 9781843108702, £19.99, 288 pages

Global Youth Work: Taking It Personally

Global Youth Work: Taking It Personally

Reviewed by PJ White, journalist and published author on global youth work

GLOBAL YOUTH WORK: TAKING IT PERSONALLY Edited by Momodou Sallah and Sophie Cooper Published by The National Youth Agency ISBN 978 086155 345 7 198 pages £14.95 (plus £2 p&p)

Music & Dyslexia - A Positive Approach

Reviewed by Helen Reidy, a special education needs coordinator, music teacher and learning support co-ordinator

Music & Dyslexia - A Positive Approach Tim Miles, John Westcombe and Diana Ditchfield John Wiley & Sons Ltd 9780470065570 (cloth) 9780470065587 (paper) £24.99 176 pages

Parental Learning Disability and Children's Needs

Reviewed by Carol Boys, chief executive, Down's Syndrome Association

Parental Learning Disability and Children's Needs; Hedy Cleaver and Don Nicholson; Jessica Kingsley Publishing; 9781843106326; £19.99; 140 pages.

Under Pressure

Under Pressure

Reviewed by Mary Crowley OBE, stakeholder adviser, National Academy for Parenting Practitioners

Under Pressure: Rescuing Our Children from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting Carl Honore Orion Books 9780752875316 £16.99 294 pages

Direct Work

DIRECT WORK

Reviewed by Graham Ixer, head of social work education at the General Social Care Council

DIRECT WORK Edited by: Barry Luckock and Michelle Lefevre BAAF ISBN 9781905664290 £14.95 312 pages

The Baby Borrowers, Youth Worker's Pack

The Baby Borrowers Youth Worker's Pack

Reviewed by The National Youth Agency's Youth Work for Health team

Published by the BBC; 134 pages; Free. For a copy email babyborrowers@bbc.co.uk

R U Listenin'? by Terry Bianchini

R U Listenin'?

Reviewed by Trefor Lloyd, director of Working with Men.

Terry Bianchini Jessica Kingsley ISBN 9781843106166 £16.99 158 pages

Eagles Who soar

Eagles Who Soar Jasmine Rhamie Trentham Books ISBN 9781858563947 £16.99 140 pages

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