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Part of the "Theorizing Society" series, this book seeks to explain to the reader the manifold meanings, and approaches to, "globalization" and related matters that have been developed by social theorists across the ages and from many different perspectives. This text focuses on four key areas, economy, polity, culture and society.

Drawing on theories from the sociology of technology and on a diverse body of empirical research, this book explores how universities are attempting to build and use Information and communication technologies (ICTs), to sit alongside, complement and, in some cases, replace established means of delivering, organizing and managing higher education.

This book exemplifies, illustrates, evaluates, analyses and critiques the characteristics and practice of the SENCO role at an academic level suitable to the new National Award.

Recovery is a key concept throughout mental health, but its meaning is elusive and hard to grasp in day to day practice. This textbook is an accessible and practical guide to recovery in mental health, demystifying the concept and helping students and practitioners to develop a personal awareness of what recovery is and what it means at an individual level.The book presents recovery as being intimately connected to our values and who we are as people. The chapters build upon what we understand recovery to be and apply these ideas to various areas of practice, such as communication, being self-aware, reflective practice, clinical supervision and how we engage with service users, families and the multi-disciplinary team. Explanations are given of the most popularly used recovery concepts and approaches such as the Tidal model, Repper and Perkins’ Psychosocial model, and the WRAP and Path models, and their use in daily practice. The book features:•  Practice-based examples and real-life case scenarios to illustrate how recovery varies from client to client•  Exercises to encourage you to reflect and come up with your own personal approach•  Consideration of ethical and professional dilemmas in practice•   A view of recovery that takes into account political and resourcing issues•   Explanation and discussion of key concepts in recoveryThis is an excellent resource for all students and practitioners in mental health nursing."An exciting and essential read for professionals to understand the nature of recovery. Explicit but comprehensive, this book is for nurses and other professionals in mental health. The book takes us from the origins of recovery through to practical advice and scenarios that place the service user at the core.  This encapsulates the true meaning of recovery and how we can implement and facilitate these approaches within contemporary healthcare. The book acknowledges politics and how the political arena can influence and shape services"May Baker, Senior Lecturer in Mental Health, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

• Why do some pupils experience maths learning difficulties? • How can you determine whether there is a specific learning difficulty such as dyscalculia, dyspraxia or dyslexia?• What teaching strategies can help overcome maths anxiety and specific maths learning difficulties? Without doubt maths is one of the most important subjects taught in schools and yet it is the one subject that can strike fear and dread in children from the very start of their education. In this book Judy Hornigold explores potential causes of maths learning difficulties and particularly the specific difficulties that learners with dyscalculia, dyslexia and/or dyspraxia experience.  It considers how general maths anxiety impedes mathematical development and then examines whether this, or a more fundamental and specific difficulty with maths such as dyscalculia, is the real root of difficulties.The book then looks in detail at a wide range of strategies to help overcome general maths anxiety and more specific learning difficulties. It addresses four distinct areas - core number, reasoning, memory and visual spatial awareness - as the main areas of difficulty for learners with dyscalculia (core number and reasoning), dyslexia (memory) and dyspraxia (visual spatial awareness).

Patient safety in health systems has become more and more important as a theme in health research, and so it is not surprising to see a growing interest in applying systems thinking to healthcare. However there is a difficulty - health systems are very complex and constantly adapting to respond to core drivers and fit needs. How do you apply systems thinking in this situation, and what methods are available? National health authorities, international donors and research practitioners need to know the "how-to" of conducting health systems research from a systems thinking perspective. This book will fill this gap and provide a range of tools that give clear guidance of ways to carry out systems thinking in health, with real-world examples. These methodologies include:. System dynamics and causal loops. Network analysis. Outcome mapping. Soft systems methodologyAnd many more.Written by an international team of experts in health research, this handbook will be essential reading for those working in or researching public health, health policy, health systems, global health, service improvement and innovation in practice.."For those working in the health sector, the relevance and value of systems thinking as a concept is evident. However, operationalization of this concept has been a challenge. With this new book, health researchers have a detailed guide for applying system thinking tools in day-to-day operations to identify and solve issues related to health policy and systems."Ghaffar Abdul, Executive Director of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, Switzerland"This book is the first to present practical options for applying systems thinking to understand complexity in health systems. The editors compile an essential collection of practical tools for understanding complex problems and framing research questions, as well as for determining and managing related solutions. Each tool is presented through an accessible summary of the method and the theory upon which it is based, as well as a real-world example. It will be a valuable resource for teaching and practice." Ligia Paina, PhD, Assistant Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, USA"This keenly-awaited book offers a lucid and comprehensive discussion on how to research complex health systems. Health systems are facing a rapid change and increased complexity, with well-designed solutions often leading to unintended consequences. The book provides invaluable help in navigating this complexity and applying rigorous as well as pragmatic approaches to capturing dynamic interactions between system elements and causal loops. The authors operationalise systems thinking in an accessible style, presenting a menu of sophisticated methods and tools, and providing guidance on how to choose methods that fit the questions asked. This and the examples of practical applications of each method makes this book a key learning resource for health systems researchers, commissioners of research, programme implementers and equally, for any readers with interest in complex social systems." Dina Balabanova, PhD, Associate Professor, Health Systems/Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK"Recognition of the need to enhance health systems around the world, instead of only focusing on diseases, has grown significantly over past decade or more. Consequently, production of health policy and systems related research also increased. However, going into an era of Sustainable Development Goals, studying and understanding how the national systems function from a systems perspective becomes even more necessary to find adequate remedies or policy solutions. This book will bring immense value to researchers and decision makers as it provides guidance not on "what to do" but rather "how to do" research from a systems thinking perspective. Systems thinking that emphasizes the context, complexity, interconnectedness, and adaptiveness of the health system resulting from feedback loops is gaining more traction within the health systems research field. Therefore, this book is timely to help equip individuals or researchers with practical tools that are expected to empower the field and facilitate greater and more relevant evidence production for better policy making in health."George Gotsadze, Director, Curatio International Foundation"To ensure that health system research responds to policy priorities and to promote the use of evidence in policy decisions, researchers and health system managers should apply system thinking methods to address problems. This methodological handbook includes variety of essential tools and provides excellent guidance for health system researchers and managers when investigating and resolving complex health systems problems. Given the interconnectedness between health and other systems, the application of the tools included in this handbook is even more important when investigating health systems problems that are linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)."Fadi El-Jardali, Professor of Health Policy and Systems, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Michael Jacobs is a pioneer in the development of psychodynamic counselling. While his writing is praised for its lucidity in explaining difficult concepts, and it is well illustrated with case examples from his own work, he has rarely said much about his own history as a psychodynamic psychotherapist and counsellor. In this personal account, concerned mainly with both his professional life as a therapist, writer and teacher and with the developments of counselling generally in Britain, in which he has played a major part, Jacobs presents his own past. It is one that surprisingly for so experienced a therapist, started with no formal training, but which has gone on to be an influence on the training of hundreds of counsellors and therapists. Jacobs traces the development of BACP and UKCP and his part in the formation of both organizations, the development of training in counselling in Britain, much of which with regard to psychodynamic counselling was pioneered by him, and finally his writing and teaching career. The book concludes with a critique of the present state of counselling and psychotherapy in Britain today.“A delight to read! Everyone benefits from a lovely memoir like this: students, experienced colleagues, and the author himself. Michael has built a deserved reputation as an outstanding authority and innovator in the counselling field, in practice as well as in training. His restlessness and his challenging nature are still needed as the sense of crisis in depth and relational therapy work intensifies. The account of his experiences, whether entirely fortuitous and haphazard or fuelled by an individuating sense of vocation, will stimulate thought, feeling and a profound questioning of where our field is heading.”Professor Andrew Samuels, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK“This is the moving and revelatory account of the personal and professional evolution of one of Britain’s most prominent pioneering counsellors.  In telling his own story, Michael Jacobs also illuminates the development of the counselling movement during the past fifty years and younger readers will discover much to inform and surprise them. This deceptively passionate book inspires and challenges on almost every beautifully written page.”Brian Thorne, Emeritus Professor of Counselling, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK; Co-founder, The Norwich Centre for Personal, Professional and Spiritual Development“Michael Jacobs’s new memoir kept me wide-awake for most of the night, because I simply could not put this book down!  Written with consummate story-telling skills, Jacobs has created an inspiring and enthralling portrait of his remarkable career in the fields of psychotherapy and counselling.  A true pioneer of mental health in Great Britain, Jacobs has much to teach us all, and I recommend this new volume most heartily!”Professor Brett Kahr, Institute of Medical Psychology, London, and Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health, London, UK 

A comprehensive core student text which combines theoretical foundations of mental health nursing with practical skills and interventions.

No single discipline can provide a full account of how and why health care is the way it is. This book provides you with a series of conceptual frameworks which help to unravel the apparent complexity that confronts the inexperienced observer. It demonstrates the need for contributions from medicine, sociology, economics, history and epidemiology.

This comprehensive package offers a unique way of relating theory to practice, making it an essential learning resource for all CFP and nursing students.

Contains steps involved in leaving an anorexic/bulimic lifestyle behind. This book is suitable for those who want to do something practical about anorexia nervosa/bulimia.

Helps readers identify what is important about their project, how their research relates to previous work and how it may be used to bring about change at individual, community, national or even international levels. This work presents a strategy that focuses on the notion of the 'project' as an organising framework.

This textbook is an invaluable comprehensive guide to all of the major measures of health and quality of life.

This book shows how to best support EAL learners in primary school socially, cognitively and linguistically.

Edited book for midwives on normalizing challenging childbirth.

Book gives a fresh perspective on how healthcare professionals can use coaching to improve patient relations and health outcomes.

Covers the practical therapeutic skills needed by mental health nursing students.

Practical resource for professionals engaged with planning, implementing and evaluating multi-professional teamwork and practice.

A collection that gives important insight into the issues and questions that have become central to understandings of women, violence and resistance. It focuses on the connections between research and the development of strategies for change by providing examples of policy-relevant feminist research, rooted in both academe and activism.

Describes the many settings in which counselling is used with offenders, victims of crime, and criminal justice professionals under stress. This book reviews the political pressures which have both limited and encouraged the growth of counselling in criminal justice settings.

Should school governors be seen as active citizens or state volunteers? Can educational reforms and changes in the status of school governing bodies be seen as part of a wider political process? This book draws on research evidence and theories from sociology, political science, gender studies and organizational analysis to answer these questions.

Considering the challenges facing primary schools as they move towards a new century and a new millennium, this work celebrates the work of primary schools and notes their unique qualities and achievements. It provides guidance for those involved in primary school management and is suitable for staff in primary schools.

Explores the subject of racial identity and encourages readers to think about racial issues and to explore their own racial identity. This book believes that self-awareness is an essential element of competency as a therapist, and challenges white therapists to be aware of what it means to be white, and how this influences the therapy process.

Explores the ethnography of truancy in its educational, political, legal, economic and ideological contexts. This text attempts to discover how absences may be construed, what absentees from school actually do, and who is responsible for them.

This book provides an alternative means of discussing the development and significance of managers and management in universities and colleges.

In a mix of personal experience, theoretical debate and case study material, this book articulates the tension which often exists between theory and practice, good intentions and hard reality; and it offers concrete suggestions about how such tensions can be and have been reconciled successfully in a number of higher education institutions.

If most older people want to remain in their own homes, then why does residential care persist? The authors set out to answer this pressing question. They offer readers a comprehensive review of the history of residential care, its provision, practice and an analysis of its future role.