Generalist Social Work Practice provides students with the foundational skills and knowledge needed to serve clients across micro, mezzo and macro areas of practice.

Counseling Individuals Through the Lifespan, Third Edition introduces students to the fundamentals of the counseling process during each stage of human development.

Counselling skills are core to the social work undergraduate curriculum. This book takes readers through the theoretical models that they need to learn about for their course, and provides direct examples of how to use these in practice.

`The publication of this second edition of Culture's Consequences marks an important moment in the field of cross-cultural studies.... Hofstede's framework for understanding national differences has been one of the most influential and widely used frameworks in cross-cultural business studies, in the past ten years' - Australian Journal of Management

A popular text/reader hybrid, combining the major writings of sociology's core contemporary theorists with a historical and theoretical framework.

A critical exploration of the constructions of childhood across the social sciences. It questions common global Northern conceptions of childhood and children by providing a wider lens through which to challenge inherent Eurocentrism.

Drawn from the author's experience as an internationally recognized theorist, lecturer and practitioner, this book on existential therapy elucidates this notoriously difficult and distinctly different therapeutic approach to counselling and psychotherapy.

Fully updated with new crime statistics, case studies - including Jimmy Savile, the murder of Lee Rigby, and Wikileaks - and a student website, this bestselling text introduces students to this exciting area and encourages them to think critically about key issues