This accessible book draws on research around women’s experiences to illustrate and explore the concept of posttraumatic growth, emphasizing practice implications for healthcare professionals and strategies for fostering posttraumatic growth.

This introductory book offers a clear guide to the new field of Positive Health which incorporates a shift towards perceiving body and mind as an integrated system. Topics covered include the social determinants of health and meaning as a factor contributing to health.

Alliance Commissioning in Health and Social Care is a ground-breaking and practical guide to collaborating and co-ordinating service provision across different providers, taking readers through each step from initial concept to launch and operation.

The Social Dynamics of Family Violence explores family violence throughout the life course, from child abuse and neglect to intimate partner violence and elder abuse.

Reading for Life helps educational practitioners make informed decisions about which teaching methods to reject and select, and empowers parents to ask the right questions of professionals and policy makers. This book is an innovative, fresh assessment of how high-quality literacy teaching can be provided for all.

This newly updated and streamlined edition of Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations provides proven strategies for combating alcohol and drug addiction through group psychotherapy.

The book provides a succinct and issue-centered introduction to the Western philosophy of science, bringing eight focal issues in the field to the fore and augments each topic by incorporating Chinese perspectives.

This book introduces the reader to the fascinating and sometimes bizarre world of space rocks using a simple, clear layman-friendly style. It explains why they are so special and describes their main characteristics.

This book offers a thorough and accessible look into the importance of recovery in both staying healthy and performing well. Internationally renowned experts from sport science offer interdisciplinary analysis of the detrimental effects of underrecovery as well as the use of applied intervention and prevention strategies.

This practical and accessible book maps out comprehensively the range of exciting and varied options open to those considering a career in public health. Uniquely, it provides helpful information on how to become either as a fully-fledged specialist or to work in an operational practitioner role.