An essential overview of theoretical issues in psychology with pedagogical features to help students identify key terms and concepts.

New and updated edition of this popular core text helping students build confidence and understanding of leadership practice for EYPS.

'Hatton's book is a welcome antidote to stagnation and moribund thinking in contemporary professional practice and readers will gain much from engaging with the concepts he sets out and the challenges he raises.' Jonathan Parker, Series Editor

Covers essential skills of working with this client group in detail - communicating, listening and understanding children's behaviour.

An introductory guide to best practice in report writing for social workers

This provocative volume deals with one of the chief criticisms of ethnographic studies, a criticism which centres on their particularism or their insistence on context -- the question is asked: How can these studies be generalized beyond the individual case? Noblit and Hare propose a method -- meta-ethnography -- for synthesizing from qualitative, interpretive studies. They show that ethnographies themselves are interpretive acts, and demonstrate that by translating metaphors and key concepts...

Part of the "Key Figures in Counselling and Psychotherapy" series, this text chronicles the life, contributions and influence of Fritz Perls on the practice of counselling and psychotherapy.

A fresh, timely book from a rising star - this is an excellent resource for students and researchers of everyday life, activism and sustainability across the social sciences. It provides a useful theoretical and methodological framework for understanding everyday practices, and uses real world case-studies to bring it to life.

A new mainstream textbook on primary English for those training to teach in primary education, carefully written to be relevant for the changing education landscape of the next few years.