Fully up to date with the SEND Code of Practice this book explores all the key contemporary issues relevant to supporting children with special needs in an early years context. Combining theory with practice, it demonstrates how to ensure children's individual needs are at the heart of early years provision.

With a wide range of contributions from highly respected researchers, this handbook examines historical, current and future research issues in play and learning scholarship, offering clarity and breadth in this dynamic and changing field.

A guide for busy academics of all subject disciplines who have been asked to convert their face to face teaching into an online model of delivery.

This book brings together theory on parents and early learning, and the role of education professionals in developing partnerships with families, focussing on how to support parents in their teaching of literacy and other aspects of early learning at home.

This book adopts a unique strengths-based approach in teaching students to focus on the positive attributes of individual clients and incorporate those strengths, along with other essential cultural considerations, into their diagnosis and treatment.

With coverage of ethical standards from six different associations, the text addresses ethical issues and principles in social work, counseling, psychology, and marriage and family therapy.

This book, based on experiential framework, aims to bridge solid research and empirical support with clear dialogue, exercises and connections back to theory. The book will cover the process of groups and group leadership, theories of group counseling, methods of practice, and direct experiences, cases, and dialogues of groups in practice.

Helps counselors in training learn essential skills for consultation positions for those who opt not to go into private practice. This title also helps students understand the process and stages of consultation as well as some key skills such as writing proposals, conducting workshops, drafting contracts, fees, and reporting.

Encourages early years practitioners to take a critical stance in relation to a wide range of themes and issues

This book provides students with a comprehensive and critical look at the EYFS curriculum.