Since 1997 Representation has been the go-to textbook for students learning the tools to question and critically analyze institutional and media texts and images. This long-awaited second edition:* updates and refreshes the approaches to representation, signalling key developments in the field* addresses the emergence of new technologies, media formats, politics and theories* includes an entirely new chapter on celebrity culture and reality TV* offers new exercises, readings, images and examp...

Every child valued and empowered to learn-this book shows you how! This book is focused on a set of strategies that have a positive effect on student learning and attachment to schooling, in spite of real and powerful social inequalities. This evidence-based book is drawn from research showing that students from all backgrounds in identity safe classrooms learn better and like school more than their peers in other classrooms. In identity safe classrooms, teachers strive to ensure that student...

Theories for Mental Health Nursing is the first textbook to directly address the key theories that inform the study and practice of mental health nursing and health care in the 21st century. Taking a broad approach to mental health, the authors explain why different approaches might be adopted at different times, before going on to show how they should be applied in practice.

This book aims to provide nursing students and new nurses with a greater understanding of how to manage patient safety and risk in their own practice. The book focuses on the essentials that students and nurses need to know, and therefore provides a clear pathway through what can sometimes seem an overwhelmingly complex mass of rules, procedures and possible options.

A practical, hands-on guide to the assessment process in mental health nursing.

Uniquely focusing on person-centred, humanised care and physical care, this book helps students to examine attitudes towards older people in health care and combat negative stereotypes.

This book is about research designs for projects that collect both qualitative and quantitative data, so that their combined strengths will accomplish more than would have been possible with any one method.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to commissioning, managing and undertaking research in development work. Perfect for both students and practitioners.

Presenting a practical approach to CBPR by describing how an individual researcher might understand and conduct CBPR research, this book includies a concise overview of CBPR theoretical underpinnings, methods considerations and ethical issues - all presented in an accessible format.