Packed with examples from across the social sciences, this book helps students and researchers alike in turning systematic reviews into recommendations for policy and practice.

Fully up to date with the SEND Code of Practice this book explores all the key contemporary issues relevant to supporting children with special needs in an early years context. Combining theory with practice, it demonstrates how to ensure children's individual needs are at the heart of early years provision.

This book takes a new and innovative approach to looking at the commonalities and disparities between counselling/psychotherapy and forensic psychology. It aims to develop a critical understanding of the themes and issues related to crime and therapy that are highly relevant to theory and practice, yet are often ignored or neglected.

This book supports teachers to plan, assess and develop children's writing for a range of purposes in a range of styles. Chapters focus on different subjects exploring the different opportunities for writing across curriculum areas.

This book explores the potential of what children can do with technologies, rather than what technologies can do for children.

Well-known editors and contributors across a span of disciplines, including social work, criminology, and sociology, ensure the highest quality contributions for studying violence against women.

Understanding and Evaluating Research: A Critical Guide shows students how to be critical consumers of research and to appreciate the power of methodology as it shapes the research question, the use of theory in the study, the methods used, and how the outcomes are reported.

With three main areas of focus, this forward-thinking book provides practical strategies and tools to maintain positive change within any school.

This book is a pragmatic guide to both gathering and analysing media data and helps readers make sense of how media are involved in politics, by bringing media research to life with vivid case studies.