This new text from Mary Larkin on the increasingly important life course approach covers health from pre-pregnancy to old age. Chapters include suggestions for further reading, discussion points, activities and activity commentaries to make it ideal for interactive student learning and critical reflection.

This handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of qualitative research methods, specifically compiled for this market.

With over 350 entries this is a comprehensive lexicon of existential terms, their meaning and application.

An essential how-to guide appropriate for trainees and practitioners to give them all the tools they need to develop writing for reflective practice.

A new edition of the first and only comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the history, theory, research and practice of solution-focused therapy (SFT) within mental health care and beyond.

Provides effective and practical strategies from gerontology to augment CBT techniques.

Includes material on neuroscience and practitioner-oriented research methodology showing how the processes of doing research and doing therapy have many things in common. This book aims to cultivate a spirit of willingness amongst therapists trained in one model to learn from colleagues trained in others.

Offers an in-depth introduction to the theories, concepts, approaches and practices, relevant to research methods in a public health setting.

Student-friendly, engaging textbook that covers all the main topics in health from a critical perspective. Each main topic is covered in-depth with its own chapter, and issues relating to disability as well as research methods are integrated throughout the book.