A much needed book offering brief, authoritative yet highly readable discussions of a wide range of concepts related to this interdisciplinary field.

A comprehensive student introduction to mental health in counselling and psychotherapy

In Foundations of Inquiry, Guoping Zhao and Lucy E. Bailey consider paradigms and how they connect to methodologies. The authors explore a rich body of paradigms (historical and contemporary) and how they form, support, and justify different methodologies and connect to designing and carrying out research.

This new addition to the Applied Social Research Methods series is unrivalled, it is written by leaders in the growing field of rigorous, comparative techniques.

Presenting a fresh new look at critical ethnography by emphasizing the significance of ethics and performance in the art and politics of fieldwork, this book celebrates the productive links between theory and method.

A guide to the complexities of working with difference and diversity in counselling and psychotherapy.

With new material on working with diversity and difference, neuroscience and extended discussion on ethics, this is a quick and easy introduction to the psychodynamic approach.