'A ground-breaking book that speaks to all women' Bernardine Evaristo

What can ancestral practices teach us about how to live fuller lives today?

Upon turning forty, Afua Hirsch had an encounter that forever altered her preconceived notions of ancestry and body image, making her question everything from body-modification rituals such as tattoos and piercings to the foundations of sexuality, as well as attitudes towards puberty, ageing and death. This book charts her year-long journey of radic...

The fifth edition of this text includes updated research and coverage of current issues, using real life-examples and case law discussions to define and explore forensic psychology.

Co-published with the CPCAB, this highly practical book is a comprehensive training guide based around the 7 areas that students have to evidence in order to become accredited at L4. It offers a firm foundation of knowledge and skills, looks at practice issues, helps with study, and also answers the most common questions students have when training.

Written by experts from the UK Data Archive with over thirty years of experience in working with and teaching people to work with data, this book is the globally-reaching guide for any postgraduate student or researcher looking to build their data management skills.

This book offers an introduction to the study of childhood and the different contexts within which childhood exists. It explores childhood from within the family, to the global perspective, and the child's own perspective. It enables readers to begin to understand childhood in relation to society and to develop the skills to look at childhood from a critical standpoint.

Provides students with the tools and knowledge to address the concepts of diversity, oppression, power and powerless, and empower them to practice in ethically appropriate ways for contemporary social work practice.

The ABC of CBT introduces you to the basics of CBT, guiding practitioners through how to apply the key principles, techniques and strategies across a range of disorders.

A step-by-step guide to the underpinning theoretical knowledge in social work helping your students to confidently apply theory in practice.

From finding participants to writing your questions, this hands on book tells you everything you need to know when doing qualitative interviews.

This book is a first steps introduction to cognitive behaviour therapy that will appeal to the interested reader and professionals wanting to learn about the approach.