Psychology, health and medicine assessment and referral skills are useful for counsellors and psychotherapists. This book explores a range of key topics, covering how psychiatric diagnoses and classifications are arrived at, and the issues that can arise when working in conjunction with other mental health practitioners, such as psychiatrists.

Explores the experience of becoming and being a counsellor, and engaging in the therapeutic process. This book enters the internal, subjective world of counselling through its characters: students, counsellors, clients, supervisors and the author himself. It also provides personal development exercises.

Taking a balanced perspective and applied approach, this text encourages you to think critically about issues in fundraising and philanthropy to prepare you for a career in the nonprofit sector.

This Second Edition provides a clear roadmap to the complexity of action research whilst explaining how action research is defined, its traditions and history, and the rationale for using it.

This book presents an overview of common SPSS commands and contains a collection of more or less independent sections to help readers find the specific information they need.

Providing readers with non-technical and applied explanations of both conceptual and practical aspects of sampling, this book covers the changing technology landscape of survey research and big data.

This engaging, thought-provoking, and comprehensive text examines the promise and limits of community development by showing students and practitioners how asset-based developments can improve the sustainability and quality of life.

Designed to teach students the fundamental interviewing tools (e.g., empathy, reflection, summarizing, etc.) that comprise professional clinical contact and can be used in all clinical skills courses and practica across the human services.

Stress and Health is the only book on the biology of psychological stress for students and researchers in the behavioural sciences. It is an excellent textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying the relationship between stress and health in psychology, physiology, behavioural medicine, nursing, the neurosciences, and related fields.

A collection of practical articles on best practices in classroom management and assessment by the premier researchers and authors in the US and UK.