This new volume in the Social Thinkers series serves as an introduction to the life, work, and ideas of Erving Goffman.

This book offers school counselors an effective and efficient approach to helping students through the use of Solution-Focused Brief Counseling (SFBC).

As well as using concept maps, mind maps and other visual techniques used to consider theory-based inquiry, this text combines an exploration of the core elements of 'theory' with relevant theoretical examples drawn from biology, psychology, sociology, critical traditions, and integrative efforts.

Organized around the progressive developmental stages - from childhood through to older age, the authors identify, chapter by chapter, the issues which counseling interventions can address at each developmental stage.

This book shows that effectively managing in three dimensions means understanding the distinction between organizational management and the management of policy formulation and implementation

The authors outline the historical and emerging trends in the field of medical social work, from end-of-life and palliative care to the role of the social worker and health disparities.

The go-to resource for supporting students through difficulties they may face when completing their studies online.

Presenting the exciting history of social psychology through the experiments that shaped the field, this new text-reader helps students learn the skills needed to read and interpret primary research articles.

This book guides teachers and school leaders address and implement more rigorous curriculum standards.

This book provides conceptual, user-friendly coverage of the generalized linear model (GLM). Themes covered include testing assumptions, examining data quality, and nonlinear and non-additive effects modelled within different types of linear models.