This go-to guide covers both the historical background to the emergence of survey research and the practical tools necessary to write survey questions, design a questionnaire, use probability sampling and to understand both pretesting and data collection.

For people working in health and social care this new edition provides models and tools for assessing grief, engaging therapeutically with it and measuring the grief changes taking place in clients and patients.

In this fabulous little book, David Silverman lays bare what he considers to be good and bad qualitative research and gets readers thinking about how they can come to understand the world and each other better through qualitative methods.

Always engaging and relentlessly pushing the boundaries, this is a must-read from a pioneer in realist research.

A tried and tested guide for undergraduate students on how to write a brilliant dissertation.

This book introduces both 'new' and 'in-training' supervisors and counsellors to the concept of supervision and its purpose within counselling. It focuses on key elements of supervision, including methods, processes, skills and policy/legislation and it examines, in depth, the development of the supervision relationship.

This accessible and practical textbook will demystify research and make it relevant to counselling practice.

This book will equip social work students with the skills they need to meet the new and perennial challenges to achieving empowering practice with carers and people who use services.

A complete introduction to working with addictions.

Useful strategies and guidance for anyone needing to explore the practical and ethical issues around researching with children and young people.