This is the first comprehensive Handbook to examine the various models of stress, coping, and health and their relevance to nursing and related health fields. No other volume provides a compendium of key issues in stress and coping for the nursing and allied health professions.

Addressing and alleviating the anxieties around practising 'creatively' in today's complaints culture, this book offers a safety net to therapists trying to work safely and ethically whilst remaining true to their humanistic values.

This sophisticated and cutting-edge exploration of the state of critical social theory today relates the key concepts and theorists to major contemporary developments such as globalization, social conflict and neo-liberal capitalism.

Study Skills for Town and Country Planning incorporates a basic introduction to studying planning, a 'how to' for students to develop a relevant set of skills to succeed in their degree, plus a guide to applying those skills in a very practical and diverse workplace.

This is the first textbook written in direct response to the Munro review of child protection. It will be valuable reading for students taking courses in social work with families, and also for practitioners across all fields who work on child protection.

A hands-on, practical toolkit for students, this is a complete guide to the practice of sports journalism across all platforms.

This book is an invaluable guide to help researchers and graduate students understand ethical concerns within real-life research situations.

Examines how people of color fit into the fabric of America and how the media tell them and others how they fit.

Guides students through cases and exercises that explore crisis communication and management in action, building the necessary skills for effective crisis management.

This book encourages students to adopt a particular mindset towards journal articles., a mindset that recognizes the many strengths of social research-especially its advantages over ordinary ways of knowing things.