Provides effective and practical strategies from gerontology to augment CBT techniques.

An intelligent and engaging exploration of the continuing relevance of both classical and contemporary social theory in today's world.

An Invitation to Cultural Psychology looks at the everyday life worlds of human beings through the lens of a new synthetic perspective in cultural psychology - that of semiotic dynamics.

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.

A step-by-step guide to the core techniques used by practitioners in achieving therapeutic change using the cognitive behavioural approach, this new edition drills down into the skills required at each stage of the therapeutic process and with the therapeutic relationship at the core shows trainees practically how to build and maintain a successful working alliance with their clients.

This book provides a timely and expansive study on the subject of the impact that academic social science has across a broad societal canvas, including on government and public policy, commerce and business, and the third sector and public engagement.

This is a guide to a theoretical awareness and understanding of the role of creativity in teaching and learning across the primary curriculum.

This book engages with key intellectual challenges facing social science today, at a time when it is under considerable pressure to demonstrate its value. It addresses questions that carry implications for research practice, quantitative or qualitative, by making use of contemporary examples, such as the London riots.

Takes the position that US bureaucracy is neither a generalized failure not a sinkhole of waste as mythologized by anti-government ideologues. Rather, it is one of the most effective and innovative sets of administrative institutions of any government in the world today.