A clear favourite among students and lecturers, this bestselling book introduces the main theoretical models in a clear and accessible way before applying them to various stages of the life course. From infants to older adults, the author uses case studies and practice examples to bring social work methods, skills and principles to life.
Through templates and real-world examples, this step-by-step guide clearly illustrates what good and bad data look like, in order to help students get going quickly and build an effective survey around a research question. In each chapter, survey-based challenges are linked to the broader research issues, maintaining the important theoretical context to the learning process.
Balancing theoretical foundations with practical strategies, this book helps you develop an approach to your qualitative data analysis that is both systematic and insightful.
Presentations are increasingly a key assessment of student research and projects, and are one of the core employability skills. Zina O'Leary's Fix shows students how to nail them.
This book is an essential guide for apprentices and their trainers. It supports you to prepare for the Gateway and get ready for your EPA. It helps you to make sense of EPA and to understand the expectations of your assessors.
By using a unique format made up of over 150 frequently asked questions and corresponding answers, Key Questions in Healthcare covers the what, why, where and how in legal and ethical issues related to healthcare.
A clear introduction to effective decision making in nursing providing an overview of the theory, knowledge, models and frameworks that can help nurses make better decisions.
Setting out the key principles that underpin children¿s play, this book critically discusses the different perspectives that affect play, and recommends strategies for planning for play within different contexts, and for different professional sectors. The book draws on research from sociological and philosophical perspectives, and from social studies of childhood, and features international case studies and comparisons to provide a comprehensive overview of the subject. Chapters include: barriers to children¿s play health and development implications of constraints on play the role of policy the role of schools the role of play advocacy
A Super Quick guide to building your transferable skills and maximising your employability and job prospects after graduation.
A Super Quick guide to managing your physical and mental health and wellbeing at university, giving you the tools and resources to meet the demands of student life and beyond.
A Super Quick guide to beating writing anxiety, providing tools and tips for overcoming blocks, improving productivity and building good assignment writing habits.
A Super Quick guide to successfully managing your time, balancing your commitments and achieving your academic goals.
This book offers practical advice and guidance for teaching primary grammar, linked to the National Curriculum.
A Little Guide for Teachers: Diversity in Schools aims to provide starting points for teachers and leaders in creating a curriculum, either across disciplines or within subjects, that is as deep and diverse as their students.
A critical introduction to key debates about how problems of mental health are understood, and to the core approaches taken to working with counselling and psychotherapy clients.
A critical introduction to key debates about how problems of mental health are understood, and to the core approaches taken to working with counselling and psychotherapy clients.
This bestselling book introduces you step-by-step to the key skills needed to become a successful coach.
Employee engagement in Corporate Social Responsibility focuses on engaging employees in socially responsible initiatives, using the existing literature, new empirical studies, case studies and thought-provoking insights.
'The Roger Federer, the Tiger Woods, the Usain Bolt of all books about the psychology of sport, packed with insight and wisdom' - Brian Viner, Sports writer and author of Pele, Ali, Lillee, and Me
'The Roger Federer, the Tiger Woods, the Usain Bolt of all books about the psychology of sport, packed with insight and wisdom' - Brian Viner, Sports writer and author of Pele, Ali, Lillee, and Me
This book takes you step-by-step through the Low-intensity CBT interventions and clinical procedures.
Showcases the latest theory and application of social construction across a range of disciplines with a focus on real-world practice in addition to theoretical work, thus making it useful for advanced students, scholars, and practitioners alike.
This book takes you step-by-step through the Low-intensity CBT interventions and clinical procedures.
Drawing on a comparative study of political rhetoric in three countries ¿ Austria, Denmark and Sweden ¿ alongside examples from the UK and Germany, this acutely topical book explores anti-immigration rhetoric and discrimination that¿s being used to redefine the language of migration in Europe. It highlights the the strong rise of radical and populist right-wing parties and critiques the language they use, with perspectives and methods from both political science and critical discourse analysis.
A timely and provocative exploration of contemporary political communication from a world-leading author team. In an age of "fake news" and Youtube algorithms it can be tempting to see politics as all mediation, but this book refocuses on the broader contexts or neoliberalism, elites, populism, activism and so on. There's more to Trump than Twitter.
An ideal introduction for trainees and practitioners looking to understand the what, the why, and the how of coaching research.
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