Bringing together a range of expert voices to tackle the essential topics relevant to the study of disability from a social perspective, this interdisciplinary introduction includes over 50 chapters relevant across health and social care.

An essential new guide for any person-centred trainee or practitioner, this book offers a unique focus on how to practise the various contemporary person-centred therapies.

A book on planning, organising, facilitating and evaluating groupwork which will help students to develop their skills and pass assessment, increasing confidence during placement groupwork activities.

Provides an essential introduction to the major theoretical approaches in counselling and psychotherapy. This book includes two chapters on mindfulness and positive therapy, as well as additional content on ethics, and new developments in each approach, including the research and references.

With a new chapter on the literature review, this accessible step-by-step guide to using the five major approaches to research design is now in a thoroughly revised second edition. The prior edition's user-friendly features are augmented by a new companion website with worksheets keyed to each chapter. For each approach, the text presents a template for a research proposal and explains how to conceptualize and fill in every section.

Interdisciplinary research examples draw on current events a...

This key introduction to the theory, concepts and practice of the person-centred approach looks through the lens of the practitioner's experience and personal development.

With contributions from over 30 experts, and dispelling common myths, this is a practical and evidence-based guide into the benefits of social media and how it can be used beneficially by both children and adolescents.

Combining theory with plenty of practical, technical advice - and accompanied by original case studies and data sets - this book makes sure that students both understand Stata and know exactly what to do to make it meet their needs.

Cybercrime and Society is a student focused and pedagogically developed introduction to the area of cybercrime, which over the past few decades has seen an explosion of growth due to new global forms of electronic communication. Â

Delving into the real issues of policing, and fully updated to cover recent changes in the field, this is the introduction to your Police Studies course.