Pavilion is dedicated to producing engaging and informative publications for professionals, educators, parents and carers.

Their mission is to raise standards, support continuing professional development and promote best practice. Pavilion publish books, training packs and assessments across subjects including psychology and mental health, education and young people, autism and neurodiversity, intellectual disability, coaching, mentoring, mindfulness and personal development. For more information, please visit the publisher’s HOMEPAGE.

In August 2023, Pavilion Publishing and Outside the Box Learning Resources collaborated to bring a selection of these invaluable resources to education and health professionals in Ireland.

Click on your area of interest below or scroll down to see all the Pavilion Publishing resources available from OTB.

You may also browse Pavilion Publishing’s ‘Autism & Intellectual Disability 2024 Catalogue’ by clicking on the catalogue cover here.

Autism and Mental Well-being in Higher Education (2nd Ed.)

41.50

– A Practical Resource for Students, Mentors and Study Skills Support Workers

Autism and Mental Well-being in Higher Education (2nd edition) looks into the fact that, too often, autistic students and those with mental health needs struggle with higher education, often dropping out of courses because they do not receive the informed support that would help them to succeed. This much-needed manual addresses the provision of effective support via mentoring in order to build students’ confidence and enable them to take control of their lives.

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Autism: Respecting Difference

11.95

– An Inside View of Autism for Carers, professionals and Families

Autism: Respecting Difference is a simple and concise introduction to how the world is experienced differently by autistic people and how to respond suitably and sensitively to individuals.

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Autistic Masking

34.95

– Understanding Identity Management and the Role of Stigma

This book aims to define the process of autistic masking and the underlying reasons for its existence. It will consider the social context, including an individual’s response to stigma or trauma, that facilitates impression management.

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Good Box, The

24.50

– Beyond Sensory Turmoil and Pain in Autism

The Good Box: Beyond Sensory Turmoil and Pain in Autism is about understanding and helping those who struggle with sensory overload due to autism.

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Making Space for Autism

58.95

– Strategies for Assessing and Modifying Environments to Meet the Needs of Autistic People

This environmental assessment and modification programme has an accessible, strengths-focused approach to supporting autistic people across different areas of their life. It reflects a paradigm shift from one where autism is treated as a deficit or impairment to one of strength, acceptance and autonomy.

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Mismatch of Salience, A

28.50

– Explorations of the Nature of Autism from Theory to Practice

A Mismatch of Salience explores the communication challenges between people on the autism spectrum and neurotypical people and seeks to re-balance and celebrate this diversity.

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Neurodiversity Reader, The

43.95

– Exploring Concepts, Lived Experience and Implications for Practice

The Neurodiversity Reader collection brings together work from pioneering figures within and beyond the neurodiversity movement to critically explore its associated concepts and how they might be translated into practice.

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Neurodiversity, Autism and Recovery from Sexual Violence

46.95

– A Practical Resource for all those Working to Support Victim-survivors

Recovery and survival following sexual violence are unique to each individual and this invaluable book provides a resource for those supporting autistic and neurodivergent women to take steps towards regaining control of their life.

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Responsive Communication

31.50

Combining attention to sensory issues with using body language (intensive interaction) to interact with autistic adults and children

Responsive Communication is a ground-breaking new book that has been put together by a team of authors led by Phoebe Caldwell who, during her long-time practice in this field, has found some unique paths to achieving deep and meaningful engagement with autistic people and people with profound and multiple learning disabilities.

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Understanding Me, Understanding You

29.50

– A Guide for Supporting Autistic People, Easing Anxiety and Promoting Mutual Understanding

Understanding Me, Understanding You is a guide for professionals working with and supporting autistic people. It promotes acceptance of difference, the importance of mutual understanding, and encourages new ways of thinking about the way people interact.

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ADHD and Attention Difficulties

29.50

A complete, straightforward guide to the issues and challenges commonly faced by children and young people with ADHD and attention difficulties at home and at school – and the practical ways in which parents, carers, teachers and schools can help.

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Anxiety and Depression

29.50

Anxiety and Depression offers a complete guide to the difficulties and challenges commonly faced by young people with anxiety and depression at home and in school and how to help.

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Building Wellbeing and Resilience

29.50

A complete, straightforward guide to the issues and challenges commonly faced by children and young people as they develop personal wellbeing and resilience – and the practical ways in which parents, carers, teachers and schools can help.

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Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD/Dyspraxia)

29.50

Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD/Dyspraxia) How to Help gives a complete, straightforward guide to the issues and challenges commonly faced by children and young people with DCD and dyspraxia-related difficulties.

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Effective Study and Learning

29.50

A complete, straightforward guide to the issues and challenges commonly faced by children and young people when seeking to study and learn effectively – and the practical ways in which parents, carers, teachers and schools can help.

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Gifted Learner, The

29.50

The Gifted Learner is a straightforward guide to how high learning ability in children and young people can be recognised, differentiated and supported by parents, carers, teachers and schools.

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Managing Stress and Distress

29.50

Managing Stress and Distress provides an accessible, straightforward guide to how heightened stress levels in young people can lead to distressed behaviour and how to manage both.

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Mental Health and Wellbeing in Primary Education

31.50

Mental Health and Wellbeing in Primary Education puts all the information you need at your fingertips – with detailed guidance on creating a culture of wellbeing, overviews of key educational challenges and transitions and early warning signs to look out for.

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Mental Health and Wellbeing in Secondary Education

31.50

Mental Health and Wellbeing in Secondary Education offers a wealth of tips, guidance and advice for taking a whole-school approach to this topic in secondary schools, along with a detailed introduction to how a range of key issues are diagnosed and treated.

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Mindful Parenting

19.95

– Finding Space To Be – In a World of To Do

Mindful Parenting is an inspirational guide for busy parents who want to better understand the automatic ways in which they can react to stressful situations, balance the ‘doing’ and ‘being’ modes in their everyday lives, and move from instinctive to more mindful responses.

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Teenage School Difficulties

29.50

A complete, straightforward guide to the issues and challenges commonly faced by children and young people as they face up to the demands of secondary education – and the practical ways in which parents, carers, teachers and schools can help.

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Tired of Anxiety

18.95

– A Kid’s Guide to Befriending Scary Thoughts and Living Your Life Anyway

A step-by-step, visually engaging guide that draws on proven psychological science to give parents and other caregivers the means to make real, effective changes in the lives of young people who are experiencing long-term struggles with anxiety.

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Tired of Teen Anxiety

19.95

– A Young Person’s Guide to Discovering Your Best Life (and Becoming Your Best Self)

A step-by-step, visually engaging guide that draws on proven psychological science to give teenagers the tools and confidence to deal with long-term struggles with anxiety.

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Using Supervision in Schools

32.95

– A Guide to Building Safe Cultures and Providing Emotional Support in a Range of Education Settings (2nd Edition)

Packed with up-to-date examples from real-life schools, this is an invaluable guide to how supervision can help teachers and other staff to feel safe, happy and challenged in their work, and to more effectively safeguard the children and young people in their care.

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Art of Caring for People with Intellectual Disabilities, The

34.95

 – Enhancing Quality of Life through Attitudes, Education and Behaviour

The Art of Caring for People with Intellectual Disabilities considers how the skills and attitudes of a carer can elevate the life of the person they care for.

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CaPLET Training Manual, The

75.95

– How Caring Relationships Can Support Individuals with Enduring Distress (2nd Edition)

This training manual, for professionals with some understanding of trauma-informed care, provides guidance on how to run a training course for care staff and clinicians who work with people who are survivors of trauma.

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Emotional Development and Intellectual Disability

43.50

 – A Guide to Understanding Emotional Development and its Implications

Emotional Development and Intellectual Disability recognises the complexity and importance of emotions and emotional development in the needs and lives of people with intellectual disabilities (learning disabilities) and in their care and support.

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I Can Feel Good (2nd edition)

115.00

– DBT-informed skills training for people with intellectual disabilities and problems managing emotions

The purpose of this manual is to enable practitioners to deliver skills training to people with mild to borderline intellectual disabilities who have problems managing and regulating their emotions, which in turn impacts on their lives and relationships. The people who could benefit from such training may live in community settings, residential settings or secure settings.

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Intellectual Disabilities and ‘Personality Disorder’

52.95

– How Caring Relationships Can Support Individuals with Enduring Distress (2nd Edition)

This new and revised edition is aimed at professionals who care for individuals with intellectual disabilities and a ‘personality disorder’, with new contributions and updated content to reflect developments towards trauma-informed care.

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Living Your Best Life

34.95

 – Acceptance-Based Guided Self-Help for People with Intellectual Disabilities

Living Your Best Life is an activity-based workbook that guides people with intellectual disabilities to identify what really matters to them and to live their best lives.

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Love, Attachment and Intellectual Disability

34.95

– Meeting Emotional Needs and Developmental Trauma

The book Love, Attachment and Intellectual Disability highlights the importance of early attachment and the trauma that can occur when this basic emotional need is not met.

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Mental Health Needs of Children and Young People with Intellectual Disabilities (2nd Edition)

37.50

 – A Reader for Professionals and Support Staff in Health, Education and Social Care

Originally entitled ‘Mental Health Needs of Children and Young People with Learning Disabilities’, this new 2nd edition focuses on the care and support of those with moderate and severe learning disabilities (intellectual disabilities).

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Reducing Risk in Health and Social Care

34.95

– Towards Outstanding Teams and Services

Regulation of health and social care services is moving towards more risk-based inspections that focus on safety of services. Reducing Risk in Health and Social Care explores what a culture of safety looks like, why it matters and how to achieve it.

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Trauma and Intellectual Disability

43.50

– Acknowledgement, Identification & Intervention

A ground-breaking book from leading experts that considers what is now known about trauma in the lives of people with intellectual disabilities, explores trauma-informed care in support services and presents a diverse range of therapeutic interventions now being effectively employed to achieve better life outcomes for those affected.

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Understanding and Responding to Behaviour that Challenges in Intellectual Disabilities (2nd Edition)

43.50

– A Handbook for those who Provide Support

Challenging Behaviour and People with Intellectual Disabilities (2nd edition) addresses the need for an up-to-date handbook which, while well-grounded in research and latest clinical practice, is essentially non-academic and accessible for staff occupying many roles

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Understanding the Impact of Trauma

32.95

– Identifying Care and Therapeutic Interventions

This title follows the success of the FAIT, an assessment tool for determining the level of emotional development in individuals with intellectual disabilities, and explores the usefulness of applying this model more broadly to anyone who has experienced trauma.

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