This best-selling, practical, evidence-based guide to the cognitive behavioural approach takes trainees step-by-step through the process of counselling, from initial contact with the client to termination and follow up.

With brand new chapters on ethics and mixed methods, this indispensable guide continues to provide readers with everything they need to develop effective and successful research proposals.

'An excellent introduction to social work with children and families. It links practice with legislation and highlights relevant research findings'. - Mr Dan Burrows, Cardiff School of Health Sciences, Cardiff Metropolitan University

Designed for both students and newly-qualified social workers, this dip in and out of guide introduces students to over 300 key laws, legal terms, and legal processes in a concise and no-nonsense way. I t covers all areas of social work practice, ensuring students have the knowledge they need to apply the law with confidence.

This text is both a practical account of the research process, and an invitation to think more deeply and reflexively about the imperfect, multifaceted nature of social research itself.

Designed to help students think critically about the skills and knowledge they need to understand and tackle inequality, and provide meaningful help to those people most in need.

An accessible introduction to social work practice with adults written in collaboration with service users, carers and practitioners.

Written for a wide audience, from undergraduate and graduate students to citizens and activists, this engaging text explains how economics can help us to better understand the development of digital technologies. Â

Action Research is an invaluable guide to novice researchers from a diversity of disciplines, backgrounds, and levels of study for understanding how action research works in real-life contexts. It helps students see the value of their research in a broader context, beyond academia, to effect change on a larger scale.

Rooted in evidence-based practice, this book introduces an approach to CBT for depression that integrates cognitive-behavioural models and therapies. It draws on components of first, second and third-wave CBT to help readers tailor therapy to the needs of individual clients.