This revised edition is updated for the new qualification requirements and the Professional Standards for Teachers. Essential course support for the new Level 3 Award by best-selling author of Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector.

Provides effective and practical strategies from gerontology to augment CBT techniques.

Bringing together a range of expert voices to tackle the essential topics relevant to the study of disability from a social perspective, this interdisciplinary introduction includes over 50 chapters relevant across health and social care.

This timely and fully revised second edition provides an overview of the personalisation agenda and looks at the recent legislation in a broad historical and theoretical perspective. This approach will provide opportunities for students to consider the changes to the social work role and to evaluate the impact of this for service users and as practitioners.

A step-by-step guide to the core techniques used by practitioners in achieving therapeutic change using the cognitive behavioural approach, this new edition drills down into the skills required at each stage of the therapeutic process and with the therapeutic relationship at the core shows trainees practically how to build and maintain a successful working alliance with their clients.

This book provides a timely and expansive study on the subject of the impact that academic social science has across a broad societal canvas, including on government and public policy, commerce and business, and the third sector and public engagement.

This is a guide to a theoretical awareness and understanding of the role of creativity in teaching and learning across the primary curriculum.

This book engages with key intellectual challenges facing social science today, at a time when it is under considerable pressure to demonstrate its value. It addresses questions that carry implications for research practice, quantitative or qualitative, by making use of contemporary examples, such as the London riots.

A complete guide to the mandatory units of the new Certificate in Education and Training.