Bestselling authors Cooper and McLeod present a groundbreaking new approach to counselling, outlining a flexible framework for practice applicable to all modalities of therapy at all levels.

By introducing each step taken in a criminal investigation, this text allows students to gain a clear understanding of the processes involved and helps them to critically assess the interplay of investigations, criminology and forensics.

This book helps students to understand the relationship between theory and practice in social work.

A complete guide to understanding dementia in social work.

Written by two of the most prominent criminologists in the field, Race and Crime, 6th Edition takes an incisive look at the intersection of race and ethnicity and the criminal justice system.

Providing a brief overview of mixed methods research, this second edition takes the reader through the essential steps in planning or designing a study.

A study of institutions, management, ethics and contemporary society.

Helping the Client is the bestselling text which has long been used as the basis of interpersonal skills training in a wide range of professions from medicine to management. Based on John Heron's well-known six-category model, the book presents different forms of helping behaviour which can be adopted by any practitioner working face-to-face with a client.

Hall offers a wide-ranging exploration of the issues surrounding cultural identity. He outlines the reasons why the question of identity is so compelling and yet so problematic. Outstanding contributors then interrogate different dimensions of the crisis of identity providing both theoretical and substantive insights into different approaches to understanding identity.