This text offers basic generalist practice methods which emphasize the common elements in working with individuals, families and groups.

This thoroughly updated new edition of the bestselling text trains students to critically read a research article from start to finish. Containing twenty-five engaging articles of both ideal and flawed research, it discusses how to assess them in terms of soundness of the design and appropriateness of the statistical analyses.

Ideal for teachers of Key Stages 1-4, this textbook features strategies that look at foundations, planning, implementation, and evaluation components.

This text looks closely at interdisciplinary research, covering topics such as applying theory and practice to problems, the importance of finding a common ground and suggests new solutions to problems that cover multiple disciplines.

This is a core textbook designed to prepare literacy educators to conduct reading and writing assessments and to help them develop appropriate corrective literacy strategies for use with their students.

Quantitative Research for the Qualitative Researcher is a concise text that provides students who are not predisposed to mathematical or scientific thinking with the needed conceptual and practical understanding of quantitative methodology.

This interdisciplinary text examines five different components of family health--biology, behavior, social-cultural circumstances, the environment, and health care--and the ways they affect the abilities of family members to perform well in their homes, workplaces, and communities.

Engaging analysis of sport's role in the 'making of race', and the place of sport in relation to the politics of racial equality.

Drawing on the ideas of Michael White and David Epston, this fully revised, extended and updated Second Edition incorporates the progression of their thinking over the past five years and introduces developments initiated by other narrative therapists worldwide. New material has been added around counseling for post-traumatic reactions, couples conflict and a sense of personal failure.

This book challenges students to think about the future of aging policy as it relates to issues of access and financing of aging policies and programs.