ICF: A Hands-on Approach for Clinicians and Families

This is a practical manual of the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF).

The book explains the many ways health care professionals and families can apply ICF elements with real-life scenarios. It helps families and service provide

Perspectives on Palliative Care for Children and Young People: A Global Discourse

‘an important move towards ensuring that all children and their families…have equal and guaranteed access to comprehensive paediatric palliative care services’

Edited by Rita Pfund and Susan Fowler-Kerry

Summary from the publishers:

Advances in medical science and technology are saving the lives of

Want a nice story for Christmas?

This animation tells the story of three sisters, the impact that serious illness has on them, and how their Family Support Worker, Sabrina, helps bring back some colour to their lives at Christmas.

Animation here

Executive Function Guide – new resource from Center on the Developing Child

From the Center: Consider your daily routine. Do you have to schedule appointments? Remember instructions from your supervisor? Juggle multiple tasks at once? Executive function and self-regulation are the mental processes that help us accomplish our daily tasks. The Center on the Developing Child c

Young Children Develop in an Environment of Relationships. Working Paper No. 1

'...ways to strengthen policies that affect those relationships in the early childhood years'

From Center on the Developing Child website:

An “environment of relationships” is crucial for the development of a child’s brain architecture, which lays the foundation for later outcomes such as aca

Your child, your family and early childhood intervention: Family Perspectives

This is an excellent video from Australia. I recommend it highly because of the good practice it illustrates.

https://youtu.be/DbuV4isNLDI

Peter Limbrick

Childhood trauma and resilience - videos

Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up

These two links came to me when I asked for information about attachment when babies and young children have disabilities and special needs.

The first is a TED talk by Dr. Nadine Burke-Harris with the introduction:

'Childhood t

‘The UK government is in a state of denial about the impact of austerity policies on the poor’

“There is a striking and almost complete disconnect between what I heard from the government and what I consistently heard from many people directly, across the country.”

From the Guardian article 17^th November 2019:

UN rapporteur Philip Alston’s hard-hitting report on poverty includes the following