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Set in 1930 and based on true events, this middle-grade novel explores family secrets, set at the Ideal Maternity Home. Tulia May lives in rural Nova Scotia with her mother, who works in the laundry of the nearby Ideal Maternity Home. It's a place where unwed mothers can discreetly give birth, a place where adoptions by rich Americans can be quickly arranged. Tulia doesn't think about the workings of the home much; mostly she hates being roped in to helping scrub the endless diapers. Her friend Finny Paul has suspicions that the home is holding sinister secrets--the worst being that unadoptable babies are being buried in butterboxes--but Tulia thinks he's being ridiculous. When Tulia's sister Becky ends up in the home, Tulia truly starts to consider Finny's concerns. And when she and Finny discover what's really going on there, she knows she has to act quickly to keep Becky's baby safe. Based on the true story of the Ideal Maternity Home, and its tragic Butterbox Babies, The Family Way is a thoughtful and engaging exploration of family and of Nova Scotia's history. A stand-alone middle-grade novel, it also serves as a prequel to the critically acclaimed Cammie novels, Flying With a Broken Wing and Cammie Takes Flight.

It's the story of a thirteen-year-old girl, Lilli, who is apprenticing with a healer and mid-wife until her father decides that they will move to the New World when the British put out a call for hard-working Protestants to help settle in Nova Scotia. Lilli attempts to change her father's mind about the move, by doing an incantation, but ends up putting her friend, the midwife, in danger. It is also the story about the belief in witchcraft that was prevalent in Europe at the time, a belief that was brought to Nova Scotia with some of the Foreign Protestants and actually remained in Lunenburg County for a very long time.. Secondary, to this main story, is a small story thread about another(present-day) girl, Lilly. A gift from a neighbour on her fifth birthday sparks memories inside her of this other life she lived in Wurtemburg, and is the story two soul-friends, separated in 1752, being finally reunited 200 years later.

A historical middle-grade novel following a plucky thirteen-year-old hired girl in rural 1919 Nova Scotia, exploring grief and love, poverty and privilege, and family in all its forms, from the award-winning author of The Cammie Turple series. Lark Harnish, plucky and chatty and full of hope, is starting a new life. It's 1919 in rural Nova Scotia and at just thirteen years old, she has to leave her mother and siblings to go work at the McMasters house. Her father has died and her family desperately needs the money. She arrives expecting another version of her own family -- bruised and saddened by the loss of a parent, but still full of love and laughter and stories. Instead she finds a family in tatters, with devastated adults raising sad and lonely children. When Lark barrels in with her big personality, she disturbs a long-held silence in the McMasters house. The well-being of Lark's family is on the line, and so are the hearts of the McMasters. Can Lark find her way in this new life, or are two families about to fall apart? In her newest historical middle-grade novel, celebrated author Laura Best brings another delightful group of characters to her readers, along with all the complexity of families finding hope in hard times.

An intimate YA novel from the celebrated author of the Cammie Turple series depicting one teen boy's reckoning with his father's terminal illness, and his right to choose MAID. It's not some abstract debate. It's his dad's life. It's 2014 and the Ice Bucket Challenge is everywhere. You know, people posting videos of themselves dumping freezing ice water over their heads to raise money for ALS research. It's weird, everyone suddenly talking about ALS, because Sam's family has been dealing with it ever since his dad, Gregory, was diagnosed three years ago. His dad, a brilliant lawyer, stopped working, then stopped walking, and now he can't even talk. His mom quit her job to take care of him. And now Sam is quitting the one thing he's amazing at: hockey. It sucks to have to stop, but it's exhausting trying to do normal-life things when life is anything but normal. Everything is complicated and messy and hard--especially the way Gregory has been thinking about things since his diagnosis. Death. Medical assistance in dying. The right for terminally ill people--people like Gregory--to choose when they go. Sam's trying to be supportive; he reads all the arguments for legalizing MAID, and even goes to a rally. But the idea of helping his father die is like a weight pressing down on him, and it gets heavier and heavier until something snaps, and he does the only thing he can think of. Sam bolts. He takes a job as a farmhand for a weird old guy way out in the country. From here, in the middle of the woods, it's not clear if Sam will ever find a way back to his family...or if he even has a family to go back to. How can a fourteen-year-old possibly wrap his head around something the whole country is fighting about? Dear Dad is a brave and hopeful look at a teen boy's struggle with his father's terminal illness, disability, and death.

Die Beziehungsgestaltung ist die Basis fur die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Adressierten und Fachkraften Sozialer Arbeit. Denn: Nur aufgrund einer tragfahigen Beziehung konnen Sozialarbeitende Probleme thematisieren und mogliche Losungen in Kooperation mit den Adressatinnen und Adressaten erarbeiten. Das Buch zeigt, wie Beziehungen in einem reflexiven Prozess fachlich begrundet eingegangen werden und wie Sozialarbeitende ihre Rolle dabei gezielt ausfullen konnen. Zudem wird erklart, wie Kommunikation und Setting so gestaltet werden, dass Sozialarbeitende die Waage halten zwischen Polen wie Nahe und Distanz oder Kontrolle und Unterstutzung. Praxisbeispiele aus verschiedenen Handlungsfeldern der Sozialen Arbeit veranschaulichen die Inhalte und verdeutlichen zugleich Unterschiede in der Beziehungsgestaltung in freiwilligen und unfreiwilligen Kontexten.

Laura Best untersucht die Interaktion von Reasoning-Prozessen innerhalb ergotherapeutischer Beratungssituationen mithilfe des Einsatzes von Head-mounted Cameras und videogestützter Interviews. Sie identifiziert und erläutert sieben interaktive Reasoning-Kategorien zwischen Ergotherapeutinnen und -therapeuten und ihren Klientinnen und Klienten. Diese Reasoning-Kategorien stellt sie in vier dynamischen Interaktionsmustern dar. Die Autorin hebt die Bedeutung von Verbundenheit innerhalb der ergotherapeutischen Beratungsbeziehung hervor und sensibilisiert für die Beziehungsbedürfnisse von Klientinnen und Klienten im Beratungssetting. ?

Laura Best stellt mithilfe eines innovativen videobasierten Forschungsdesigns das Erleben von Nähe und Distanz in Beratungsbeziehungen aus der Perspektive der Adressatinnen und Adressaten dar. Es werden Einflussfaktoren auf die Entwicklung der Beratungsbeziehung sowie auf die Zufriedenheit und subjektiv erlebte Effektivität der Beratung aus Sicht der zu Beratenden herausgestellt. Durch die Ergebnisse der Studie wird eine Sensibilisierung der Beraterinnen und Berater für Nähe-Distanz-Bedürfnisse, die Gestaltung des Beratungskontextes sowie einen bewussten Umgang mit para-beraterischen Situationen ermöglicht.