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Understanding the Trauma of Institutionalised Children
Parents adopting a child from an institution (or orphanage) are often not quite prepared for what they can expect and how to deal with it. Institutionalisation affects a child's brain development, physical development, cognitive development, emotional development and stress response. Understanding how care in an institution is different from care in a family and the effects this has on a child helps parents prepare to welcome their child and support him or her. The book also gives some advice on pitfalls and helpful approaches to caring for a previously institutionalised child, handling challenging behaviour, and helping the child catch up on delayed or skipped development. Areas discussed a...
Volunteers with Children Everywhere
'Volunteers with Children Everywhere', the 3rd book in the Children Everywhere Series, gives information and support to people who are thinking about volunteering in children's homes abroad. Part 1 helps you make sure you make the right decisions for your situation, that you are prepared as well as possible for what you can expect and what you will need. Part 2 explains some of the things you will encounter once you arrive and get to work and gives advice on how to avoid certain pitfalls to make sure your well-intentioned help does not do more harm than good. And because most volunteers do not have childcare experience, Part 3 gives a mini crash-course in childcare. The aim is to both make your volunteering experience pleasant and to make sure the children will really benefit from it.
Children Everywhere second edition
The second edition of 'Children Everywhere' Book 1 is an institutional childcare manual. It gives practical information, illustrated with over 300 photos, about the elements of care that are needed to improve care in a children's home or orphanage. Elements such as hygiene, food, sleep, safety and children's essential basic needs make up the first part of the book. The second part of the book gives information about child development and basic child psychology, including advice on effective use of rules and discipline. The third part of the book gives advice on how to effectively set up and run a children's home. Including a look at different kinds of set ups, how to deal with staff, essential elements of good management, dealing with day-to-day issues and ethical aspects to running a children's home. The aim of the manual is to improve the survival rate and quality of life of children in childcare institutions all over the world.
Intellectual Disability Among Children Everywhere
'Intellectual Disability Among Children Everywhere' is the 4th manual in the Children Everywhere series. This manual specifically addresses the special care needs of children with intellectual disabilities, in a way that is relevant both for people running children's homes and for people training specialised foster carers or small group home carers. Part 1 of the book helps you understand what intellectual disability means and the physical and behavioural issues that you are likely to encounter, as well as giving advice on how to handle these and how to help the children become as independent as possible. Part 2 gives information about commonly associated conditions such as cerebral palsy, Down's syndrome, autism, seizure disorders and mental health problems. In Part 3 the management and care structures that are necessary for adequate care for children with special needs are discussed. The aim of the book is to improve the health and quality of life of the children and to give them a better future.
How to Help, Not Harm
This book considers the unfortunate effects of funding orphanages. It shows how a well-intentioned, generous gift can end up causing a lot of heartbreak and long-term damage for the children who were supposed to be better off because of it. The serious consequences of institutionalisation are brought forward as well as how volunteering in or donating money to orphanages can cause children to be taken from their families and placed in institutions. This book also teaches ways we can help children who are vulnerable or at risk in ways that will make their lives better. An essential read for those who wish to genuinely help underprivileged children.
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The Neuropsychology of High-level Vision
This book provides a state-of-the-art review of high-level vision and the brain. Topics covered include object representation and recognition, category-specific visual knowledge, perceptual processes in reading, top-down processes in vision -- including attention and mental imagery -- and the relations between vision and conscious awareness. Each chapter includes a tutorial overview emphasizing the current state of knowledge and outstanding theoretical issues in the authors' area of research, along with a more in-depth report of an illustrative research project in the same area. The editors and contributors to this volume are among the most respected figures in the field of neuropsychology and perception, making the work presented here a standard-setting text and reference in that area.
Limits in Perception
This book presents an analysis of limits in perception from the vantage point of the physicist, the engineer, the psychophysicist, the psychologist and the theorist. Limits in perception find their causal explanation at many logically and/or physically different levels. Some of the most fundamental bottlenecks are due to the quantum mechanical and atomistic structure of the microworld. Other simple constraints are due to the material constitution of sensory organs. For instance, the fact that the eye is predominantly composed of water limits both the optical quality and the available spectral window. The engineer uses knowledge on such limits to design equipment that optimizes human performa...
The Oxford Handbook of Perceptual Organization
Perceptual organization comprises a wide range of processes such as perceptual grouping, figure-ground organization, filling-in, completion, and perceptual switching. The Oxford Handbook of Perceptual Organization provides a broad and extensive review of the current literature, written in an accessible form for scholars and students
Vision as Process
Human and animal vision systems have been driven by the pressures of evolution to become capable of perceiving and reacting to their environments as close to instantaneously as possible. Casting such a goal of reactive vision into the framework of existing technology necessitates an artificial system capable of operating continuously, selecting and integrating information from an environment within stringent time delays. The YAP (Vision As Process) project embarked upon the study and development of techniques with this aim in mind. Since its conception in 1989, the project has successfully moved into its second phase, YAP II, using the integrated system developed in its predecessor as a basi...
