A down to earth, practical guide to newly qualified social workers on their Assessed and Supported Year in Employment.

This groundbreaking book takes a humanistic approach to counselling young people, establishing humanistic counselling as an evidence-based psychological intervention.

This timely book showcases the variety of qualitative longitudinal methods and tools available to researchers today. It will help you find, generate, and manage data from a variety of research tools

Providing up-to-date research on the field of sexual victimization, this book examines the continuum of sex crimes as well as how the victims of such crimes have been perceived by the criminal justice system and society as a whole.

A companion guide to Positive Behavior Support at the Tertiary Level: Red Zone Strategies (Riffel, 2011), focused on tier two small group interventions. Topics include establishing procedures and routines, working in small groups and conducting individualized interventions in the classroom, managing transitions, and following up to measure effectiveness.

A trusted, full-featured companion to criminological research, this edition expands and updates case studies, methods and project strategies to help students prepare, do and present their research.

From selecting appropriate methods to publishing your findings, this second edition offers a multidisciplinary introduction to the qualitative research process built around the authors' Qualitative Research Cycle - consisting of the design, data collection and analytic cycles.

Drawing on economic geography, economic sociology and critical management studies, this is an interdisciplinary, student-focused exploration of the contemporary international financial environment.

Taking readers from media students to media professionals, Introducing Media Practice brings together the 'why' and the 'how to' of media studies. It explains how adding theory to practice improves students' media projects, and shows them how to develop the kind of project skills they need for a career in the creative and media industries. With a clear, easy-to-follow structure, the book: Covers the full range of media practice skills, from building production teams and writing briefs, throug...