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This engaging, thought-provoking, and comprehensive text examines the promise and limits of community development by showing students and practitioners how asset-based developments can improve the sustainability and quality of life.

Designed to teach students the fundamental interviewing tools (e.g., empathy, reflection, summarizing, etc.) that comprise professional clinical contact and can be used in all clinical skills courses and practica across the human services.

Stress and Health is the only book on the biology of psychological stress for students and researchers in the behavioural sciences. It is an excellent textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying the relationship between stress and health in psychology, physiology, behavioural medicine, nursing, the neurosciences, and related fields.

A collection of practical articles on best practices in classroom management and assessment by the premier researchers and authors in the US and UK.

Covering the full spectrum of skills needed, including planning, scoping, analysis, argumentation, theory building, modelling theories, methods, gathering data, presenting evidence, and writing, this book clearly helps students through each stage of doing a research project.

This book is a guide for students progressing through field work to help them review key skills and reinforce their field learning experience.

Interspersed with inspirational quotes and expert guidance from senior administrators at top universities, this book provides all that students in psychology need to map their course to academic and professional success.

This practical, hands-on guide helps beginning researchers create a mixed methods research proposal for their dissertations, grants, or general research studies.

This practical book provides researchers strategic and practical guidance on using text mining methods to analyze large text collections more efficiently and productively.