An essential guide to collaborative working for social work students.

A text on working with aggressive or resistant groups and individuals

A clear and concise guide to social work in a modern, digital society.

Written by internationally renowned scholar Armand Lauffer, the book focuses on how nonprofit agencies operate and not how they are managed. This text addresses the current trend to differentiate how nonprofits are disctint.

Drawing on issues of representation, meaning and politics, this book has been updated to now include material on: green criminology; cultural criminology of the state; current global activism, political protest and social movements; and crime and consumerism, providing readers with a cutting-edge introduction to this fascinating area.

Using a case-based approach to connect the classroom and the practice environment, this text incorporates a broad set of themes that include advocacy, social justice, global focus, ethics, theory, and critical thinking. It helps readers to develop the basic skills of engagement, assessment, intervention, and reflective practice, and more.

From the existential psychotherapist, USA Today columnist, and creator of the popular Instagram account @millennial.therapist comes a guide to identifying self-loss-one of our greatest unspoken human sufferings: that feeling of being estranged or disconnected from your true Self-so we can answer the most essential question: "Who am I?"

So many of us feel lonely, unfulfilled, or trapped-in our roles and relationships, in cycles of self-sabotage and wrong decisions, by our toxic patterns and mi...

A practical and accessible guide to the Verbal and Numerical Reasoning Exercises within the Police Recruit Assessment Process.

This textbook will help students, practitioners and academics think critically about the relationship between policy and practice. Reflective questions help critical thinking and links to websites of substantive information across the UK and internationally help keep readers up-to-date with policy developments.