A step-by-step guide to social work practice; assessment, planning, intervention, and review

In an increasingly data-centric world, we all need to know how to read and interpret statistics. But where do we begin?This book breaks statistical terms and concepts down in a clear, straightforward way. From understanding what data are telling you to exploring the value of good storytelling with numbers, it equips you with the information and skills you need to become statistically literate.

It also:Dispels misconceptions about the nature of statistics to help you avoid common traps. Helps ...

Clear, comprehensive, and research-based, this is the leading Canadian introduction to mental health practice in social work.

How to Use SPSS® is designed with the novice computer user in mind and for people who have no previous experience using SPSS. Each chapter is divided into short sections that describe the statistic being used, important underlying assumptions, and how to interpret the results and express them in a research report.

Imagining Urban Complexity introduces passionate and critical perspectives on the link between the humanities and urban studies. It emphasizes tropes, media, and genres as cultural techniques that shape complexity in urban environments by distributing affordances, modes of sensing, and modes of sense-making. Focusing on urban political and cultural dynamics in 24 global cities, the book shows that urban environments are thematized in literature and art, but are also entities that are shaped, ...

Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues offers a multidisciplinary, comprehensive exploration of domestic and international terrorism that helps students develop the knowledge and skills needed to critically assess the expressions and underlying causes of terrorism.

Introduces social work students and practitioners to a wide variety of theories for direct social work practice. Completely updated and reorganized, this new edition provides a framework for integrating the use of theory with central social work principles and values combined with artistic elements of practice.

Approachable, clear, and friendly, this book equips students with the tools to tackle key issues faced by qualitative researchers and establish good practice in their own research.

Straightforward and insightful, this is the go-to book for any qualitative researcher who wants to use NVivo to conduct robust data analysis.

De Nederlandse Vereniging voor Criminologie is een halve eeuw jong! Geïnspireerd door het principe van intergenerationele overdracht, blikt deze bundel terug op de geschiedenis van de vereniging. Daarbij komen twee prikkelende vragen aan bod: op wat voor mooie erfenis van onze voorgangers bouwen wij voort? Zijn er daarnaast ook aspecten die we beslist niet door zouden moeten geven aan toekomstige generaties?