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Charts the origins and development of major non-psychoanalytic fields in counselling and psychotherapy. This book examines a range of approaches including person-centred, transactional analysis, cognitive and behavioural therapy. It discusses how, why and where each approach came about, and the context and influences under which it was formulated.

The contributors to this volume offer both a measured reassessment of the experience of labour movements in the 1980s and a re-interpretation of their role in the new circumstances of the 1990s.

This major book offers a comprehensive overview of key debates on subjectivity and the subject in psychological theory and practice. In addition to social construction's long engagement with social relations, this volume addresses questions of the body, technology, intersubjectivity, writing and investigative practices.

Illustrates the ways in which changing social patterns, the increasing diversity of the workforce, the introduction of new communication technologies, and the challenges of global integration and competition, create organizational and interpersonal networks that are intricately interwoven.

Addresses a central issue in contemporary therapeutic practice: adherence to treatment. This volume presents research and theory on adherence, both in general and with respect to individual treatment concerns such as diabetes, HIV, heart care, and more.

The indispensable annual British Social Attitudes survey compiles, describes and comments on a range of current social attitudes. The series charts changes in British social values, with annual surveys carried out from a nationwide sample of around 3,500 people by the National Centre for Social Research's team of interviewers. The 18th Report summarizes and interprets data from the most recent survey, and makes comparisons with findings from previous years.`The Rolls Royce of opinion surveys' - The Times

Britain is a well-documented nation. This survey compiles, describes and comments on a range of social attitudes. It derives the information from interviews carried out by the National Centre for Social Research's own interviewers among a nationwide sample of around 3,500 people each year.

Using the interview form, the author tells about a vast assortment of cultural and theoretical topics, including architecture and 'speed-space', 'chronopolitics', art and technoculture, modernism, postmodernism and 'hypermodernism', the time of the trajectory and the 'information bomb'.

Providing insights into the partnership approach to development, this book demonstrates how changing institutional imperatives, terminology and political agendas have resulted in new types of relationships emerging between groups and organizations in the development process.

This work provides a range of possibilities, suggestions and manifestos for the importance of the body to the discipline of psychology. Each contributor invites us to consider certain questions and possibilites of psychological and social life that the body opens for revaluation.

An overview of key theoretical, political and empirical developments which addresses the need for a critical perspective in the field of social psychology. It covers such topics as: political critique in a postmodern world; the status of qualitative methods; and realism versus relativism.

This text is based upon the experiences of employees in 16 organizations, across a number of sectors and countries. It examines the techniques and process of human resource management from the "receiving end" - its practices and effects as experienced by employees.

This text provides a critique of the literature on gender and nationhood and an analysis of the ways in which gender relations are affected by national projects and processes. It argues that "nationhood" usually involves specific notions of "manhood" and "womanhood".

This collection deals with the central questions which have emerged from the break-up of the postwar political consensus around the welfare state. A series of distinguished contributors, including exponents of alternative positions on welfare from the right, left and centre, examine key issues in the disputes over the relationship between the state and welfare.

Examines the concept of exploitation and its place as a critical category in social theory. Discussion of the concept is internal to both liberalism and Marxism as well as being an obvious point of contention between the two. This work explains the historical emergence of themes in exploitation theories.

The focus of this book is on the role of narrative analysis in the social sciences and in increasing our understanding of human lives and experiences. Contributors address such questions as: Should in-depth interviews become occasions in which to ask for life stories so as to enhance a study of social phenomena? Can a richer approach to psychological understanding be reached by studying how experience, conscious and unconscious, is organized, interpreted and reshaped throughout the life cycle? How can biographical work be used to shed light on the social construction of individual lives?In addition, the book covers the use of narrative analysis in career biography, in examining turning points in people's lives, in the effects of language on women at work, and in discovering common themes between people in similar careers and with shared experiences.

A useful resource which explains performance-based assessments (PBAs) for conducting an assessment process that is fully integrated with the daily curriculum and can produce significantly improved student performance.

A useful resource which explains performance-based assessments (PBAs) in an accessible way and describes how to construct PBAs that measure learner performance effectively.

This user-friendly calendar and reflective journal offers daily organizational and professional support for novice and experienced special education teachers.

Companion reader to Anna Leon-Guerrero's Social Problems - 2nd Edition.

This in-depth resource presents policies, procedures, and techniques for school leaders to manage personnel and create effective learning environments.

Helps teachers develop a strong background in classroom management theory while providing them with the practical applications that develop great classroom environments

Multi-professional practice underpins the entire nursing curriculum. This book is a timely introduction to this topic that, unlike its competitors, takes on a discipline-specific approach.

This reference work provides information about the use of medication for mental health problems - which drugs to use when, the brand and generic names, how the medication works, common dosages and side-effects. It also describes what researchers know about psychotropic medications.

Presents an essential primer on the theories of space and inherent spatiality, guiding readers through the contributions of key and influential theorists: Marx, Simmel, Lefebvre, Harvey and Foucault.

Gretchen Bernabei and Judi Reimer present 95 craft lessons based on real student essays.

Written for school leaders, technology coordinators, and curriculum leaders, this book focuses on how to plan and provide for technology use in schools to support and enhance learning.

A conceptual and practical guide to Teacher Rounds - a powerful form of job-embedded professional development with proven potential to support collaborative learning centered on student learning.