Bringing together a range of expert voices to tackle the essential topics relevant to the study of disability from a social perspective, this interdisciplinary introduction includes over 50 chapters relevant across health and social care.

An essential new guide for any person-centred trainee or practitioner, this book offers a unique focus on how to practise the various contemporary person-centred therapies.

A book on planning, organising, facilitating and evaluating groupwork which will help students to develop their skills and pass assessment, increasing confidence during placement groupwork activities.

Provides an essential introduction to the major theoretical approaches in counselling and psychotherapy. This book includes two chapters on mindfulness and positive therapy, as well as additional content on ethics, and new developments in each approach, including the research and references.

Introducing the best practices for preventing, containing and learning from crises in our global, media-driven society.

Understanding Racism systematically examines the theories and theorists that have contributed the most to our contemporary understanding of racism in its various forms—making it easier for students to understand the multiple dynamics of how racism operates.

This updated edition of what is becoming a classic text in the field of disability studies shows us how disability can challenge our thinking and help us to imagine a more inclusive society, offering an instructive and engaging introduction to a diverse and globally expanding subject.

With contributions from over 30 experts, and dispelling common myths, this is a practical and evidence-based guide into the benefits of social media and how it can be used beneficially by both children and adolescents.

Combining theory with plenty of practical, technical advice - and accompanied by original case studies and data sets - this book makes sure that students both understand Stata and know exactly what to do to make it meet their needs.

Cybercrime and Society is a student focused and pedagogically developed introduction to the area of cybercrime, which over the past few decades has seen an explosion of growth due to new global forms of electronic communication. Â