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Examines the range of issues raised by ageing in contemporary society. This collection combines academic and practitioner analysis with personal accounts. It aims to reflect the diverse nature of the subject by taking a multi-disciplinary approach, including literary and historical perspectives.

This text looks at the historical and contemporary changes in social welfare systems and provision, and the debates and struggles surrounding them. The perspectives of liberalism, Marxism, neo-liberalism and post-structuralism, are used to provide an introduction to the theoretical frameworks.

`This book explores what clients have to say about their experience of the psychotherapeutic process. David Howe observes that, regardless of the therapist's theoretical orientation, clients say similar things about their experience of being helped (and not being helped)' - Clinical Psychology Forum

Comprehensive guide to the methodological, ethical and practical issues involved in researching sensitive topics. It explores the reasons why social research may be politically and socially contentious, its relation to issues of social power and its capacity to encroach on people's lives.

Does counselling have to be long-term to be helpful? Should only women counsel women? How can you evaluate counselling? This book offers answers to these and many other frequently asked questions. It includes discussions that range over various aspects of counselling, from practical and theoretical to personal and ethical matters.

Introductory text, examining psychological and sociological perspectives on the family, and exploring the links between the family and social policy. The focus is on issues which bring the family into contact with the welfare state, such as domestic violence, child abuse, mental health and poverty.

An introduction to the principles of social and educational research, offering an assessment of issues of values and practice in social research. It discusses such issues as race, gender and power in social research; the politics and ethics of data collection; and the relevance of social research.

Counsellors often struggle in their work with clients, convinced that their more experienced colleagues have not encountered similar problems and worries. This work shares the painful lessons the authors have learned over the course of their careers as practitioners.

Ranging over a rich variety of material from film and film literature, and encompassing a critical interrogation of traditional realist ethnographic and cinematic texts, this book highlights the extent to which the cinema has contributed to the rise of voyeurism throughout society.

This text presents a set of articles which attempt to answer basic questions on the co-ordination of social life by using models of markets, hierarchy and networks. These three models aim to provide a basis for the analysis of social life that transcends time and place.

This text explores the nature and extent of racial discrimination, and the successes and failures of equal opportunities programmes. A successful balance of important articles and specially written contributions, it presents analyses of institutional racism in immigration law, housing, social work, employment training and the criminal justice system.

Blending cultural studies and political analysis, this interdisciplinary text both illuminates and furthers debates over 'race' and its meanings in contemporary society as well as in educational and social policy. It is essential reading for all those concerned with discrimination and antiracist policy.

`Van Zoonen offers a provocative vision for the future of the field, and provides us with an important contribution to the literature of mass communication' - Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

What are the risks of crime and do they vary from country to country? What is the impact of crime on the victim? How are victims treated by police, welfare agencies and courts? Why have governments become interested in victims? Can we learn from the experiences of policies in other nations? This book provides a critique of victimology.

Focuses on the methods and techniques used by counsellors to reassert balance in a relationship. It examines the nature of couple relationships and emphasizes that counselling entails motivating couples, helping them to understand their problems and increasing their behavioural management skills.

Underpinning this examination of Western societies is the notion of the `risk society'. The changing nature of society's relation to production and distribution is related to the environmental impact as a totalizing, globalizing economy based on scientific and technical knowledge becomes more central to social organization and social conflict.

Explores the issues involved in both the training and supervision of counsellors and in the preparation of those who are to undertake supervisory and training roles. This book discusses the responsibilities and the professional and practical issues involved. It deals with the important issue of training for counsellor trainers and supervisors.

In this book leading international social scientists analyze the extent to which we are seeing a globalization of culture. Differing explanations are offered for trends towards global unification and their relation to an economic world-system.

`How hard it is to find a book to recommend to trainees, which will give them an insight into what counselling (and psychotherapy too, for that matter) is really like. This book does exactly that' - ChangesThis book transcends different counselling approaches and is aimed at counsellor trainers and their trainees.

This accessible book overviews the psychology of the emotions in its broadest sense by tracing historical, social, cultural and biological themes and analyses.

New Managerialism, New Welfare is a carefully integrated textbook that explores the continuing restructuring of the state and social welfare in the United Kingdom. It combines studies of specific policy areas - such as health, education, criminal justice, local government - with chapters that examine cross-cutting themes and developments. The book provides a thorough and critical reflection on New Labour's vision of the past and future of social welfare and public services in the construction of a `modern society'.

Offers an introduction to the main arguments in Risk Society and develops a range of critical discussions of Ulrich Beck's thought.

Introduces psychology and other social science students to the role genetics play in the individual differences in human behaviour.

A handbook of the theory and practice of international advertising linked to overall trends in business globalization.

This volume presents a series of readings that emphasize different aspects of grounded theory methodology. The selections are written by former students of the late Anselm Strauss and have been chosen for their accessibility and range.

There are fundamental changes in the ways in which scientific, social and cultural knowledge is produced. The book shows how this trend marks a distinct shift towards a new mode of knowledge production which is replacing or reforming established institutions, disciplines, practices and policies.

After an initial discussion on the points of convergence and divergence between psychotherapy and sociology, the author concentrates on issues surrounding gender, class, race, age and professionalism.

This much-anticipated, thoroughly updated Third Edition provides academics and marketing professionals with a comprehensive, state-of-the-art view of industrial marketing. With a focus on strategic thinking and acting, the authors examine the distinct challenges of the business-to-business marketplace.