Book review – What Happens in the Dark, Kia Abdullah, 2025, published by HQ
We were very pleased to receive this book review to contribute to part of our mothering series. Book Review Helen…
Book review
A new way of thinking: The Explosive Child
I was first recommended this book by Kate Iwi in 2018, and reminded of it again reading the recent paper…
Parenting children using violence and aggression – the unofficial guide!
Full disclosure – I am huge fan of Sally Donovan’s writing, having stumbled across her early on in my obsession…
New work on APVA draws attention to links with sibling abuse and bullying.
In my own book, Child to Parent Violence and Abuse: a Practitioner’s Guide to Working with Families, I included examples…
Mothering challenging adult children
Happy Publication Day to Judith Smith, author of Difficult: mothering challenging adult children through conflict and change, which is published…
Support for Adoptive Families
From time to time I receive books for review, particularly where they address the issue of child to parent violence…
Therapeutically Parenting Teens, book review time
Julie Selwyn’s groundbreaking report into adoption breakdown found that around one third of adoptions pass smoothly, around a third of…
Reports from the 2018 CPVA Survey
You may have been following the discussion opened up by Dr Wendy Thorley and Al Coates, following their survey of…
Who’s in Charge? A much awaited book from Eddie Gallagher
Many of us have been waiting a long time for this book to appear. Whether you prefer to think…
Non-Violent Resistance as a response to a “Wicked Problem”
Declan Coogan’s new book, Child to Parent Violence and Abuse: Family Interventions with Non-Violent Resistance, was published in November, and…