An essential overview of theoretical issues in psychology with pedagogical features to help students identify key terms and concepts.

Bell and Thorpe provide a stimulating and critical overview of the key theoretical debates on research paradigms and methodologies and relate them to the day to day practice of the research, demystifying the process and providing invaluable insights into the politics and practice of research.

This internationally acclaimed Reader offers a comprehensive and cutting-edge guide to the major topics that constitute contemporary criminology, and is an invaluable resource that students will use throughout their course

Your Foundation in Health & Social Care provides readers with all the knowledge and skills necessary for effective learning at Foundation level, both in study and the workplace. It explores all the key areas of the Foundation degree, including values, communication, legal issues and psychology.

This go-to guide covers both the historical background to the emergence of survey research and the practical tools necessary to write survey questions, design a questionnaire, use probability sampling and to understand both pretesting and data collection.

For people working in health and social care this new edition provides models and tools for assessing grief, engaging therapeutically with it and measuring the grief changes taking place in clients and patients.

In this fabulous little book, David Silverman lays bare what he considers to be good and bad qualitative research and gets readers thinking about how they can come to understand the world and each other better through qualitative methods.

Always engaging and relentlessly pushing the boundaries, this is a must-read from a pioneer in realist research.

A tried and tested guide for undergraduate students on how to write a brilliant dissertation.

This book introduces both 'new' and 'in-training' supervisors and counsellors to the concept of supervision and its purpose within counselling. It focuses on key elements of supervision, including methods, processes, skills and policy/legislation and it examines, in depth, the development of the supervision relationship.