An accessible and thought-provoking survey of this vast field. Emphasising the underlying concepts students need to understand and authored by world-renowned experts.

Including an interview with Judy Blume, the author illustrates a short story from Turkey.

Helps students understand how theory impacts and informs social work practice across a range of contexts and with different service user groups

A down to earth, practical guide to newly qualified social workers on their Assessed and Supported Year in Employment.

This groundbreaking book takes a humanistic approach to counselling young people, establishing humanistic counselling as an evidence-based psychological intervention.

This timely book showcases the variety of qualitative longitudinal methods and tools available to researchers today. It will help you find, generate, and manage data from a variety of research tools

This book takes the approach of Erving Goffman - and its fundamental concepts including frames, stigma, definition of the situation, front and back stages, role distance, communication out of character, interaction rituals - as its focus, and shows how it can be applied in contemporary social contexts

An up-to-date, student focused introduction that will be adopted on sociology, human geography and population studies modules across the social sciences.

`Hall et al bring many years of practice and academic experience to their material. The book is accessible in its style and makes extensive use of interesting case histories' - Eisteach (Journal for the Irish Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy)Guided Imagery is a unique, practical guide to using imagery in one-to-one therapeutic work with clients.

Long waited second edition of this popular exploration of media economics. Will be adopted on courses across media management, media policy and the creative industries.