This book looks at the essential communication skills required to become an effective social worker.Â

A comprehensive undergraduate textbook on research methods in education combining a broad overview of principles and practice with practical guidance to support your own educational research projects.

This accessible and introductory text explores a range of approaches to reflective practice, it's main aim being to help students become more confident in answering key questions, including 'what is reflective practice?', 'how do I develop as a reflective practitioner?', 'how do I maintain reflective practice in key contexts?'.

Jan Steen is bekend geworden door zijn schilderijen van rommelige en ontspoorde huishoudens, die inmiddels ook naar hem vernoemd zijn. Maar die uitdrukking ‘huishoudens van Jan Steen’ heeft iets schampers, iets neerbuigends. Het gaat om gezinnen waar lacherig over wordt gedaan. Er valt echter weinig te lachen om geweld in gezins- en familieverband en in andere afhankelijkheidsrelaties. Deze vorm van geweld is de meest verbreide in onze samenleving. Het is akelig dichtbij en het werpt lang...

Contests the association of care with women as empirically and historically inaccurate, as well as politically unwise. Tronto presents care as one of the central activites of human life and illustrates the ways in which society degrades the importance of caring in order to maintain the power of those who are privileged.

The Sociology of Immigration provides students with a contemporary sociological perspective on the entire immigration process: deciding to leave one's home country, establishing oneself in a new host society, being received by the host population, and deciding whether to assimilate or seek citizenship.

Forensic Psychology: An Inside Perspective on Criminal Thinking and Behavior offers a concise, accessible introduction to the field of forensic psychology. Grounded in the cognitive-behavioral approach and evidence based-practices and research, this text focuses on often-overlooked areas, such as the experiences of victims and first responders and the psychopathy of individuals convicted of mass murder, spree killing, and serial killing.

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...

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