This empowering text for human services students covers the skills and behaviors essential for leaders to manage themselves, their teams, and the organization.

For people working in health and social care this new edition provides models and tools for assessing grief, engaging therapeutically with it and measuring the grief changes taking place in clients and patients.

This accessible and practical textbook will demystify research and make it relevant to counselling practice.

This book will equip social work students with the skills they need to meet the new and perennial challenges to achieving empowering practice with carers and people who use services.

A complete introduction to working with addictions.

Now in an updated second edition, this book continues to explore the links between psychology and crime, taking the reader through psychological explanations of crime and the use of psychology within the criminal justice system.

With lots of illustrations and interviews with key urban analysts, this book offers a field-defining look at the challenges and opportunities of using new and emerging data to study contemporary and future cities through methods including GIS, Remote Sensing, Big Data and Geodemographics.

Presenting a practical approach to CBPR by describing how an individual researcher might understand and conduct CBPR research, this book includies a concise overview of CBPR theoretical underpinnings, methods considerations and ethical issues - all presented in an accessible format.

Packed full of practical examples from both inside and outside the classroom this is an essential resource for any teacher interested in doing effective action research.

This internationally acclaimed Reader offers a comprehensive and cutting-edge guide to the major topics that constitute contemporary criminology, and is an invaluable resource that students will use throughout their course