A new and engaging key text for cognitive psychology providing core knowledge plus learning and skills support for all undergraduate psychology students.

A new edition of this key text on research methods for all undergraduate education students.

Provides managers and leaders within Health and Social Care organisations with essential planning and budgeting skills.

Monte Carlo simulation is a method of evaluating substantive hypotheses and statistical estimators by developing a computer algorithm to simulate a population, drawing multiple samples from this pseudo-population, and evaluating estimates obtained from these samples. This book explains the logic behind the method and demonstrates its uses for research.

In this work, the author explains how modern psychology found its language by examining the historically changing structure of psychological discourse and offering an analysis of the recent evolution of the concepts and categories on which the quality of psychological discourse depends.

Underpinning this examination of Western societies is the notion of the `risk society'. The changing nature of society's relation to production and distribution is related to the environmental impact as a totalizing, globalizing economy based on scientific and technical knowledge becomes more central to social organization and social conflict.

Shows how the concepts of place have been modified and yet continue to be of vital importance in interpreting a world which travel and commerce have made very different from that of 1976.

This book, based on experiential framework, aims to bridge solid research and empirical support with clear dialogue, exercises and connections back to theory. The book will cover the process of groups and group leadership, theories of group counseling, methods of practice, and direct experiences, cases, and dialogues of groups in practice.

Using cutting-edge research, this text lays a theoretical foundation to help students and practitioners understand the grounding and theory behind strengths-based therapy and then presents a model for use with a variety of client types/settings.

This book outlines and explains, in detail, the necessary steps in designing, conducting, implementing, and reporting an action research study with a solid mixed-methods foundation.