This is an essential companion to your coaching training. It guides you through the foundational knowledge and skills, looks at ethics and practice issues, answers key questions about the training process, and includes top tips from students.

Accessible guide to help the reader develop critical and analytical skills essential for their successful social work education and practice. Provides essential support to the student from the very beginning of their social work journey through to final placement and into practice.

In an increasingly data-centric world, we all need to know how to read and interpret statistics. But where do we begin?This book breaks statistical terms and concepts down in a clear, straightforward way. From understanding what data are telling you to exploring the value of good storytelling with numbers, it equips you with the information and skills you need to become statistically literate.

It also:Dispels misconceptions about the nature of statistics to help you avoid common traps. Helps ...

An accessible and engaging introduction to sociology to help you understand and make our complex social worlds better.

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'The visionary author of How to Do Nothing returns to challenge the notion that ‘time is money.’ . . . Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing' Esquire

We're living on the wrong clock. And it's destroying us.

Our life is dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves to fit inside. It wasn't devised for people, but for profit. We need to embrace a whole new concept of time: one that gives us and our planet a brighter fu...

Updated to reflect changes in both research and methods, this Third Edition of Remler and Van Ryzin's innovative, standard-setting text is imbued with a deep commitment to making social and policy research methods accessible and meaningful.

Go-to introduction to what 'reflective practice' is, why it is important, and how to use different models for reflection and to enhance your work with clients.

This book takes you step-by-step through the Low-intensity CBT interventions and clinical procedures.

This new English translation of Francois Jullien's work is a compelling summation of his thinking on the comparison between Western and Chinese thought. The title, From Being to Living, summarises his essential point: that western thinking is obsessed by - and determined as well as limited by - the notion of Being, whereas traditional Chinese thought was always situated in Living.

A comprehensive account of the myriad ways that sex and crime interact in contemporary social life, sensitively confronting topics such as nationhood, abortion, child sexual exploitation, war, disability, pornography, and digital cultures.