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An essential guide to collaborative working for social work students.

A student guide to developing a strong relationship with counselling clients

A highly accessible and up to the minute introduction to youth work for new students and those considering entering the profession

A key text on quality assurance and evaluation in the lifelong learning sector. Suitable for trainee teachers undertaking PGCE, Cert Ed, CTTLS and DTTLS qualifications.

This is a comprehensive and accessible text on Exercise and Sport Psychology for students on sport science / sport and exercise science degrees.

This book helps adult nursing students to understand and apply the principles of medicines management to provide safe care to their patients.

This book helps first-year nursing students to understand and apply the basics of medicines management to provide safe care to their patients.

A self-help DIY book for doing research - tells the reader everything they need to know to do research, and to understand others' research.

This book positions qualitative analysis as an ongoing process occurring over the life cycle of a project. It pays attention to the research proposal and the decisions taken early on in the research design that influence the analysis, such as the use

This book is for academics and students studying the theory of publishing and for young professionals entering the practical reality of the industry. It provides historical context, describes industry processes and institutions and is packed full of

A provoking critical analysis that explores gender patterns in both offending and victimisation.

A much needed digest of magazine journalism that analyses the origins of this global format with a view to understanding the future directions of the magazine model. It takes an economic and policy focused stance to provide a comprehensive analysis o

Providing trainees, practitioners and researchers with a comprehensive introduction to the latest findings in the field, this book sets out, in a jargon-free way, the evidence for the effectiveness of therapy and the factors associated with positive

A wide-ranging, detailed and critical analysis of Western consumerism and its globalization, from one of the most respected names in the field today.

Announcing the Third Edition of the Bestseller - unrivalled both in its contemporary relevance to research methodology, and in its coverage of the interplay between the philosophy of science, methodology and business.

The book is a thematic examination of crime prevention, covering core areas of race, youth, community, and globalisation. Written in an accessible style with a focus on pedagogy, this is a key text for undergraduates in criminology.

Nicholas Walliman's writing style is well loved and widely read. In this book the authors practically guide health and social care students through the process of doing a dissertation and how to achieve success with such a project.

The latest edition of the bestselling reader Understanding Health and Social Care combines classic works with newly commissioned material, offering readers unparalleled coverage of the key issues in health and social care. The breadth of material enc

This new edition of Ann Browne's popular text on language and literacy is now completely up-to-date, covering everything students of primary and early years education need to know about language and literacy.

This accessible and exciting new text looks at the implications of aesthetic labour for work and employment by contextualizing debates and offering a critical approach.

A well written, easy to navigate and comprehensive guide to how to develop core skills and to make the most of one's abilities in written work.

With new material on literature reviews, case study research, action research and writing up research, the Fourth Edition continues to successfully adopt a practical approach, while still emphasizing the importance of the role of theory.

Fully revised, reconfigured and expanded, the Second Edition explores critical psychology's continued growth and diversification

A practical book which takes readers through the process of designing written materials in health care. It will be valuable reading for students on health communication, health promotion and public health programmes, as well as health care profession

Introducing students to the language of counselling research, this hands-on guide explains the research process and cultivates research literacy using a model of collaborative, pedagogical learning.

Helps students and researchers to understand the ideas and methods behind the successful collection of qualitative, quantitative and mixed data sets in transparent, scientific ways.

A V Kelly's bestselling and classic text is now brought up to date with the latest curriculum changes and current thinking in education. It's great on general principles and the philosophical background to education, making it core reading on all typ

A practical and compact guide to the central concepts that define the field.

A fresh look at the commonly accepted view of what constitutes good governance, based on examples from Europe, North America and Asia.

The only book on the market amongst the plethora of supervision books to look solely at group supervision

Bestselling authors Cooper and McLeod present a groundbreaking new approach to counselling, outlining a flexible framework for practice applicable to all modalities of therapy at all levels.

A lively and timely overview of a modern preoccupation

This text comprehensively and accessibly explores the relationship between surveillance and crime.

A fully revised and updated edition of this seminal introduction to and overview of the field of governmentality studies.

A cutting text that offers a critical approach to current theories and practices of intercultural communication, and invites students and professionals to explore alternative concepts and to become aware of cultural prejudices.

This book dispells the common misconceptions in maths and helps teachers inspire a succesful understanding and engagement of number learning