Books

In this section you will find our full range of books available for purchase.

Getting a Job, Getting a Life and Getting it Right- Six Ways to Support Young Disabled People into work

Price £8.95
by Nicola Gitsham, Helen Sanderson and Linda Jordan with Jamiee Lewis and Freya El Baz

Young disabled people can and do want to work. Having a job is a crucial part of leading a fulfilling life yet very few adults with learning disabilities in England are in paid employment. So what does it take to help young disabled people get a job and get a life?

"The whole family has benefitted from the 'Getting a Life' programme as our son is now in control and knows where he wants to work. It is the pathway to an integrated and 'normal' life which means he can be an active member of his community and our society."

Kathleen Ainsley, a parent

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A Practical Guide to Delivering Personalisation

Price £19.99

Our new book, A Practical Guide to Delivering Personalisation by Helen Sanderson and Jaimee Lewis was launched on the 25th January 2012. Ordered here or by e-mailing claire@hsapress.co.uk and we can invoice you or your organisation.

Personalisation means people, their families and carers having choice and control over their support on a day-to-day basis. To deliver personalised services, professionals and carers need to do more than just hand over financial control: they need to know what is important to a person, the best way to support them, how they communicate and how they make decisions.

This book will show how to deliver personalisation through simple, effective and evidence-based person-centred practice that changes people's lives and helps them achieve the outcomes they want. It covers why person-centred practice is relevant to the personalisation agenda and what person-centred thinking and person-centred reviews are, introducing the tools that can help you carry them out. It also explores the relationship between person-centred plans and support plans, and how person-centred practice can be used in the journey of support through adulthood - from prevention or the management of long-term health conditions to reablement, recovery, support in old age and at the end of life. There is also a chapter on taking a person-centred approach to risk.

This is an essential guide for all staff in health and social care including service providers, managers, practitioners and students.

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Celebrating Families: Simple, practical ways to enhance family life

Price £14.95
Format 235 x 180mm, 144 pages, Perfect bound paperback. By Helen Sanderson and Maye Taylor.

Celebrating Families is a practical guide for parents. It's all about appreciating each individual in your family and discovering how they prefer to negotiate a path through life; ensuring that what is important to all members of your family (including you, the parent) are met as fully as possible. It contains lots of stories about how families have used person centred thinking and planning.

Now available with a free Celebrating Families Toolkit.

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To read more about this see www.celebratingfamilies.co.uk.

For courses on using Person Centred Thinking see HSA Courses

Developing Person Centred Approaches in Schools

Price £14.95
Format 300 x210mm, 134 pages, Perfect bound paperback. By Pippa Murray and Helen Sanderson.

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For courses on using Person Centred Thinking see HSA Courses

Essential Lifestyle Planning for Everyone

Price £19.00
Format 295x210mm,166 pages, Perfect bound paperback. By Michael W Smull and Helen Sanderson with Charlotte Sweeney, Louise Skelhorn, Amanda George, Mary Lou Bourne and Michael Steinbruck.

This is the updated facilitator's handbook, which is a resource manual for those people who develop essential lifestyle plans. Since first developing essential lifestyle planning in the late 1980s - early 1990s the authors have continued to learn how to better develop plans that helped people who use disability services get the lives that they wanted. This edition of the handbook moves from a focus on plans with people with disabilities, to plans for everyone who wants one. Essential lifestyle planning is now used with children and families, with people who have mental health issues, with older people and with people who have drug and alcohol issues.

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For courses on using Person Centred Thinking see HSA Courses

Total Communication. Person Centred Thinking, Planning and Practice

Price £4.50
Format 190 x 210mm, 32 pages, Paperback. By Kim Williams, SALT Salford Primary Care trust, Learning Difficulty Service; Louise Skelhorn, Helen Sanderson Associates and Alison Matthews, SALT Oldham Learning Disability Services.

This booklet describes the philosophy and approaches of total communication. This includes: total communication; a word about understanding; a word about expression; communication model; pre verbal, pre intentional and gesture; objects; photographs, line drawings, symbols; signing; spoken language; witten language.

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For courses on using Person Centred Thinking see HSA Courses

Practicalities and Possibilities. Person Centred Thinking with Older People.

Price £14.95
Format 205x145mm, 94 pages, Perferct bound paperback. By Helen Bowers, Gill Bailey, Helen Sanderson, Lorna Esterbrook and Alison Macadam.

Older people want real choices and the responsibility to choose the best possible lifestyle for them. This book shares how person centred thinking can be used with older people to help achieve this. The powerful stories and examples shared in this book, will influence the way you think and act, whether you are a professional, an older person, family member or policy maker.

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For courses on using Person Centred Thinking see HSA Courses

In Community- Practical lessons in supporting isolated people to be part of community

Price £24.95
Format 175 x 245mm, 272 pages, Perfect bound paperback. Edited by Carl Poll, Jo Kennedy and Helen Sanderson.

This is a book about how the most isolated people in society can be not just part of the community but make important contributions to it. This book describes practical approaches to unlocking this vast potential for increasing social capital.

People, Plans and Practicalities. Achieving change through person centred planning

Price £19.00
Format: 295 x145mm, 196 pages, Perfect bound paperback. By Pete Ritchie, Helen Sanderson, Jackie Kilbane, Martin Routledge

Be careful what you ask for - you might just get it! Person centred planning used to be something counter-cultural, done by eccentric outsiders with coloured pens and strange ideas about having people in the room when decisions are being made about their lives. Now it's government policy. This book is a practical guide for would-be implementers of person centred planning who want to travel the road between making plans and changing lives.

Making it Personal - A providers journey from tradition to transformation

Price £6.95
by Steve Scown & Helen Sanderson

HSA's and Dimensions' award winning book, 'Making it Personal - A providers journey from tradition to transformation' .

What does it take to make change happen?

Big change? Since 2008, Dimensions has been grappling with the challenge of delivering personalised services. Leaving aside the debate about the future of residential care, they decided to transform their organisation to one that responds flexibly to individuals with a budget who will want bespoke support. Dimensions felt that if they did not consider and respond to the shift in power from the professionals to the customer, they would not survive.

Many providers are dealing with the same issues. But the question unanswered at most events for providers is "How do you do this?"

Dimensions has taken significant steps towards working that out. They started by taking an honest look at where they were, using the providers' selfassessment tool Progress for Providers. I then spent six days (over eight months) to take their leadership team on a real-life customer journey, from their first contact with someone through to on-going reviews. We were lucky enough to have the perspective of one person and her family - Jennie - to help Dimensions see in more detail exactly what they needed to change.

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Making it Personal for Everyone. From Block Contracts Towards Individual Service Funds

Price £7.95
Format 235 x 180mm, 120 pages, Perfect bound paperback. By Steve Scown and Helen Sanderson.

Packed full of practical information on using new person centred practices such as 'Just Enough Support', Making it Personal for Everyone explores the major changes required for providers and their staff teams in working towards full personalisation.

"It wouldn't be recognised as a traditional residential service now.....the best thing about it is to see the people we support enjoy life, really connecting with their community and achieving so much and enjoying it"

Carolynn, team manager

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Training and Practice in Person Centred Planning - A European Perspective

Price £4.50
Experiences from the New Paths to Inclusion Project. Edited by Julie Lunt and Andreas Hinz. Please note the price of this publication is to cover postage and administration fees.

"New Paths to Inclusion" was a European Leonardo Project funded within the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union from October 2009 to September 2011.

It aims to foster inclusion of people with disabilities through a person centred approach. The training programme brings the latest developments in the UK to six European countries.

Progress for Providers- Version2

Progress for providers- Version 2 of the self assessment for providers to check their progress in delivering personalised services.

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Progress for Providers - checking your progress in using person centred approaches (managers)

Price £3.50

Progress for Providers - checking your progress in using person centred approaches (managers) is a self-assessment tool is for managers to use individually and with their team. It accompanies the original Progress for Providers - checking your progress in delivering personalised services (2010) and was developed following feedback from managers and commissioners for more detail on how managers use person-centred approaches with individuals receiving support, and their teams.

Using person-centred thinking and approaches helps the people you support to have more choice and control in their lives, and for staff to provide the best support they can in ways that reflect what is important to the person. Working in this way is not about doing more, but doing things differently. In difficult economic times, our experience is that implementing person-centred thinking and approaches makes it more likely that people will want to buy your services, and that good staff will stay with you.

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Living Well- Thinking and Planning for the End of Your Life

Price £4.95
Format 210 x 295mm, 30 pages, Paperback. By Helen Sanderson Associates and Lancashire County Council.

This guide is to help you think about and record what is important to you now, and what you want in the future (planning for the end of your life).

For courses on using Person Centred Thinking see HSA Courses

Outcome Focused Review Booklet

Price £2.95

A fill-in booklet for people to complete to prepare for their Outcome Focused Review.

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