Bücher veröffentlicht von SAGE Publications Inc

What is Geography? Geography is a fundamental fascination with, and a crucial method for, understanding the way the world works. This title offers readers a short and highly accessible account of the ideas and concepts constituting geography.

Offers an introduction to the legal issues in relation to counselling and psychotherapy in the UK. This work provides coverage of the key developments in the law that have had major impact on therapists' practice with regard to data protection and the management of confidentiality.

This book covers preventive counseling and guides the reader on how to use such a model to prevent mental health issues occuring

This is the first book to provide a complete guide to assessment across Health and Social Care. It truly takes an interdisciplinary approach to the assessment process and explores all the necessary policy and practice.

Gives an indepth view of US prisons within the broader theoretical body of work referred to as the sociology of punishment.

Using a consistent framework throughout for understanding and applying concepts and practices of leading change this text contains application and reflection exercises that allow readers to apply what they learn.

The first full length dictionary of leisure studies, offering a critical survey of this increasingly popular and interdisciplinary field and incisive overviews of the key figures whose work exercises the most powerful influence on leisure studies today.

Aimed at both graduate and undergraduate students majoring in business administration and in other fields of social sciences, Qualitative Marketing Research unpacks the emerging cultural approach in the field of marketing and consumer research and provides an interesting and informed study for anyone interested in cultural approaches to economic and social theory.

Helps educational leaders create a dialogue that represents all stakeholders, define relevant policies that are ethically sound, and integrate legally mandated policies with schoolwide resolutions.

Helps promote coaching and leadership capabilities in organizations. This book helps define the goals of coaching in order to develop leadership, and explains how a culture that encourages employees to seek out coaching and encourages managers to coach can be developed. It also provides a methodology for in-house training of coaching managers.

Specifically designed for those carrying out biographical, life history or family history research, this concise guide covers the methods and issues involved. The author demonstrates that biographical research is a distinctive way of conceptualizing social activity.

This hands-on guide to being a principal is disguised as an engaging novel, with questions that invite debate and discussion.

In this essential new book, George Ritzer considers some of the main tendencies in contemporary social theory. Included here are his latest reflections on the uses and misuses of metatheory.

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Covering aspects of health and well being including physical, emotional and social health, this work helps schools to encourage children to make positive life choices. It links directly to Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) and the National Healthy Schools Standard. It is useful for teachers, School Nurses and PSHE Co-ordinators.

Drawing on the author's own experience as an expert mountaineer, instructor and consultant, this practical guide shows how adventurous outdoor activities can be provided to acceptable standards of safety.

Presents an introduction to the critical concepts, structures, and professional practices of political communication. This title considers both practical and theoretical issues central to political communication and offers a critical assessment of developments in political communication.

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Designed to heighten awareness of statistical ideas, this comprehensive and research-based text explores four main themes: describing, comparing, inter-relating, and uncertainty.

e-Learning is an essential component of education. This title examines the e-learning approaches, and explores the implications of applying e-learning in practice. It covers topics such as: enriching the learning experience; learner empowerment; design concepts and considerations; creation of e-communities; and, communal constructivism.

In this overview of educational research, the authors provide guiding principles for developing a learner-centered approach that enables all students to learn at high levels.

What is the role of social work? What does it mean to be a social worker? What are the changes affecting social work training? This book addresses these questions and provides an understanding of the knowledge, values, and skills requirements of professional social work. It offers a thoughtful commentary upon training, education and practice.

Provides a practical and richly informative introduction to feature writing and the broader context in which features journalists operate. As well as covering the key elements and distinctive features that constitute good feature writing, this book also offers a rich resource of real life examples, case studies and exercises.

Explores the theory, research and practice of career counselling from a British perspective. Divided into two parts, this book provides a comprehensive account of theories of career development and career counselling and their implications for practice. Taking a critical approach, it also shows how research informs our understanding of the field.

Offers you with the basic skills required to enter those first lectures, tutorials, lab-sessions and assessments with confidence. This book offers: advice; portfolio sections at the end of chapter; an emphasis on helping you to get started and build up your confidence; and, integration of theory (in small doses) with practice.

A practical guide to working with people suffering from depression. It outlines how to work with general negativity, sense of failure and abandonment, and feelings of powerlessness, anger, shame and guilt. It examines the essential stages of the therapeutic process from conceptualization and formulation through to a wide variety of interventions.

Helps you combine a conceptually audacious analysis of the changing nature of war with an empirically rich critical analysis of journalists who cover conflict. This title intends to explore questions about the information war and journalistic practices.

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