Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is a qualitative research approach committed to the examination of how people make sense of their major life experiences. This handy text covers its theoretical foundations and provides a detailed guide to conducting IPA research.

Written in an accessible and clear manner, Straightforward Statistics with Excel (R) helps students across the social and behavioral sciences gradually build their skills to develop a better understanding of the world around them. The Second Edition features Excel instructions and exercises so students can use the widely-available software.

Edited by two of the biggest names in the field, Windy Dryden and Rhena Branch, with 26 chapters by leading experts, this timely book alone as the most accessible yet comprehensive guide to CBT theory, skills, research and practice.

This established introduction to cognitive therapy now brings in behavioural therapy to explore the real-life practice of CBT today - from the theory and structure of CBT, through to the skills and context.

Presents reviews and critiques of major topics in organizational psychology - including leadership, motivation, communication, decision making, negotiation, power, productivity and collective action. This text includes a wide range of pedagogical features, glossaries of social identity, and social psychological and organizational terms.

Explores the nature of psychological change - the central purpose of all counselling and psychotherapy. The authors describe the process through which clients can be helped to come to terms with painful experiences and develop new ways of relating and living creatively. Maltby from Canterbury Christ Church Uni College, NZ.

A practical guide to help students, researchers and their mentors identify, prevent, mitigate and resolve ethical issues in research, navigating through issues of institutional policies and academic freedom.

The Third Edition of this much celebrated textbook continues to focus on the four major and influential perspectives in contemporary social psychology - social cognition, social identity, social representations, and discursive psychology.

Analyzing the historical, philosophical, psychological, biological, sociological and technological perspectives of emotion, this book will be of interest to students of psychosocial studies, the individual and society, and the increasing number of courses across the social sciences dealing with affect and emotion.