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Aimed at practice with adult clients, this book provides practical and effective techniques for improving connectivity between practitioners and their clients. It illustrates each "tool" with at least one case drawn from the author's own practice. It also features ideas for use with both adult individuals and couples.

Whether in informal, everyday conversations or professional dialogues, people do many things while they are speaking or writing. This volume focuses on the fundamental functions of text and talk: interactional, social, political and cultural.

This study of classical social theory, modern social theory and psychoanalysis is organized around the themes of experience and identity. The author critiques sociological accounts of identity, arguing that they treat the people they study as incapable of experiencing an internal life.

In this practical and accessible book, leading exponents of reminiscence work describe the purposes and techniques of reminiscence and set out detailed guidelines on how to implement and conduct a wide range of reminiscence activities with different types of client.

Other books on Television tend to ignore 'ordinary' television - lifestyle programmes and 'reality TV', just the sort of programmes which increasing dominate the schedules. Bonner provides a distinctive angle on the content of television and the relations between television genres and audiences.

Now in paperback, this volume summarizes, compares and contrasts the work of seven major theorists of programme evaluation. The authors develop a conceptual framework against which specific criteria of certain theories can be tested. They present the theoretical and practical advice of the theorists and critiques of their work. The conclusion summarizes the areas of agreement and disagreement between these influential theorists and offers directions for a new theory of programme evaluation.

An evaluation thesaurus which contains sections on the relevance of personnel evaluation to programme evaluation, the extension of objective testing beyond multiple-choice items without increasing correcting time and modern computer applications for evaluation.

An exploration of strategies for writing up the same research in different ways - preparing the writer for approaching and addressing diverse audiences.

This study aims to provide the key to understanding the new class structure of post-industrial societies with their changing processes of social stratification and mobility. The treatment is interdisciplinary, connecting issues of welfare, stratification and political economy.

By exploring the role of both culture and the mass media, this volume fills a gap in the literature on war and peace. Outstanding scholars provide an overview of critical mass media research and open up entirely new perspectives on the ongoing debate over communications issues in war and peace. The contributions bring together common themes including the military-industrial-communications complex, cultural imperialism and transnational control of communications. Various perspectives are covered, such as gender issues, language study and bureaucratization.

This volume discusses a philosophy in which the researcher is involved in the process of organizational learning and change. The contributors outline the method behind participatory action research and present a series of cases where it was used in industry and agriculture in four continents.

The ambivalent status of urban space in terms of emancipation, democratisation, justice and citizenship is central to recent work in urban geography. Through exploration of the tensions and possibilities between freedoms and constraints offered by the city, the authors build on current perspectives to present an analysis of urban experience.

Handbook of Developmental Psychology

An examination of Virilio's work on cultural theory; includes an interview with Virilio; a recently translated example of his work; and a select bibliography of his writings.

Examines the complex issues surrounding counselling and therapy in a multicultural society. This book explores the impact of culture on identity, and of cultural differences on interaction. It looks at how one might take a client's cultural context into consideration or deal with racism.

Shows how to develop as a critical reader and self-critical writer of literature. This book provides a framework for the critical analysis of various texts. It offers insights into key issues in the field of educational leadership, management and administration.

The 11 Myths of Media Violence challenges many of our commonly held beliefs and assumptions about the relationship between media and violence.

The editors of this book are among the world's leading authorities in the area of understanding and treating sex offenders. In this book they address the biological, developmental, cultural, and learning factors in the genesis and development of sexual deviancy and link those theories to interventions with sex offenders.

This volume of primary readings and overview essays provides a comprehensive introduction to the sociology of organizations. The readings represent a wide range of theoretical perspectives and substantive topics. Most readings are either classics in the field or works that are widely used and cited.

A revision of the centrality of belonging in contemporary culture. A group of contributors draw on sociology, philosophy and anthropology to examine belonging as an achievement, involving several levels of production, performance and embodiment.

`This is an ambitious book attemping to be relevant to a wide range of professionals in the health and welfare fields and to move from the macro policy context for change to the micro concerns of individual professional client relationships... There is much that will be of use and/or interest to both practitioners and researchers alike' - Social Policy

A practical introduction to the main theories and methods of qualitative research for the health sciences is offered in this book. It covers the full range of conventional and new qualitative methods including ethnography, phenomenology, grounded theory, biography, action research, historical research, discourse analysis and postmodern, poststructuralist and femininst approaches to research.

In this, the second of a two-volume paperback edition of the landmark "Handbook of Organization Studies", the editors survey the major issues and debated in management and organization. Topics include: leadership; decision-making; innovation in organizations; diversity; and globalization.

The first of a two-volume paperback edition of the "Handbook of Organization Studies". The contributors locate the study of organization by reviewing some significant theoretical paradigms and reflect on the relationships between theory and research in organization studies.

This text introduces analytical approaches and their use in the study of Third World politics and development. The author presents a critical overview of the main schools of thought, illustrates how students can apply a framework for research, and offers insights into Third World democratization.

There is an increasing awareness of the impact of individual factors on therapeutic work, both with clients and with their counsellors in supervision, but the influence of social contexts has been less discussed. This text provides practical information about specific organizational settings.

Concerned with issues such as power, knowledge and organizational discourse, this book

Spaces of Geographical Thought examines key ideas - like space and place - which inform the geographic imagination. The text: discusses the core conceptual vocabulary of human geography: agency: structure; state: society; culture: economy; space: place; black: white; man: woman; nature: culture; local: global; and time: space; explains the significance of these binaries in the constitution of geographic thought; and shows how many of these binaries have been interrogated and re-imagined in more recent geographical thinking.A consideration of these binaries will define the concepts and situate students in the most current geographical arguments and debates. The text will be required reading for all modules on the philosophy of geography and on geographical theory.