Fully up to date with the SEND Code of Practice this book explores all the key contemporary issues relevant to supporting children with special needs in an early years context. Combining theory with practice, it demonstrates how to ensure children's individual needs are at the heart of early years provision.

This is the definitive guide to the skills and techniques used when working with children who are experiencing emotional problems. The Fifth Edition includes new discussion of wellbeing and resilience concepts.

This book takes a new and innovative approach to looking at the commonalities and disparities between counselling/psychotherapy and forensic psychology. It aims to develop a critical understanding of the themes and issues related to crime and therapy that are highly relevant to theory and practice, yet are often ignored or neglected.

Designed for students and practitioners, this book uses a unique problem-solving framework to demonstrate how behavior change principles can be applied to practice situations.

Known for its brevity and student-friendly approach, this book remains one of the most popular introductory books on statistics for public policy and public administration students, using carefully selected examples tailored specifically for them.

The bestseller that pioneered the comparison of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research design continues in its Fifth Edition to help students and researchers prepare their plan or proposal for a scholarly journal article, dissertation or thesis.

New to Andrew Reeves' Essential Issues series, this book introduces what is meant by boundaries in counselling and psychotherapy, as well as the surrounding issues and debates. It shows students how to use boundaries as the basis for a positive therapeutic alliance and as a consistent framework for the counselling process.

This ground-breaking book offers an innovative approach to grounded theory - situational analysis - useful in a wide range of qualitative research settings. It also features chapters on mapping and analyzing discourse materials - narrative, visual and historical.

This book gives beginning primary school teachers clear guidance on how to successfully teach music without recourse to specialized training.

Packed with examples from across the social sciences, this book helps students and researchers alike in turning systematic reviews into recommendations for policy and practice.