This book throws a life belt to all counselling and psychotherapy trainees and practitioners looking to make the best start in their research-informed career.

Clearly and lucidly written, this book offers broad coverage of theoretical debates, using case studies from the author's own extensive research to bring the various theories alive. With a sociological approach throughout, it provides up-to-date coverage of key topics including gender and violence, collective violence and media and violence.

Providing a full introduction to all the theory and skills needed to work across the range of helping professions, this book introduces students to the three core approaches of counselling, coaching and mentoring, and shows how they work across a variety of settings, including therapy, teaching, social work and nursing.

From refugee camps around the world, are the stories that the world hears anything like the life inside? This book tells us how camps become cities themselves and new technology creates communication structures that helps residents keep in touch with their families inside and outside.

This book is a guide for trainee and beginning teachers on how to use talk in the classroom. It explores the theory behind the teaching of language and communication skills and includes lots of practical advice on how to translate this into the classroom.

This book offers clear guidance on how to implement an inclusive approach to the use of technology across a broad range of needs and curriculum themes, linking practical examples with discussion of pedagogical considerations.

This is the ultimate book on what is now an established methodology in teaching the fundamentals of communication to children and adults who have severe learning difficulties or autism.

Covering all the skills, theory and knowledge that students will need to know in order to succeed, this book is packed full of information relating to the core modules and key topics taught in the first year of a nursing degree.

Exploring the challenges and obstacles that need to be overcome in education research, this text offers universal guidance that the reader can apply to their own research project.

The Data Gaze is concerned with understanding how data-led, data-driven and data-reliant forms of capitalism pervade organisational and everyday life.