This is the first book to look at the practical skills specific to Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, making it ideal for trainees preparing to practice in today's busy and often time-limited health and social care settings.

The fourth book in the authoritative BACP Legal Resources for Counsellors and Psychotherapists series is an essential reference for practitioners working across a range of practice settings. It provides practical examples and applications of the law as it varies across counselling contexts.

Demystifies the complexities of organizations working together for the benefit of children.

Encouraging readers to take a critical approach to empirical data, the authors provide an account that helps social science researchers to develop new and interesting theories.

Authored by the expert in the field, the content of this book takes an IPE approach, covers practical as well as theoretical issues, and encourages critical analysis of globalisation by considering alternative approaches.

Focusing on empirical research, this is an engaging and critical guide through each step of the research process, outlining the procedures, differences, strengths and limitations of metric, interpretive and the newer hybrid approaches.

Written by two of the leading names in the field, this book is a truly international, critical analysis of the globalization of policing and its impact on contemporary criminology and criminal justice

Experts in the field set out new paradigms of learning, making this text a must-read for all those involved with e-learning - inlcuding educators, researchers and graduate students

A much needed retrospective and prospective look at how GIS technology influences and is influenced by today's post-industrial society.

Looking at the multigraph representations of loglinear models, this is a clear, introductory text on the area of graphical models and is an ideal text for those new to the field.