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Colin Farrelly's central objective in writing this introductory text is to demonstrate to students the practical relevance of contemporary theoretical debates to everyday issues in policy creation and implementation and politics.

Describes an innovative approach to therapeutic work which builds on the strengths of children and their parents. As the author's experience shows, helping clients to focus on potential solutions rather than problems can be a powerful means of engaging them in the therapeutic process.

Describing childrens' behaviours which indicate emotional distress, this book looks at both risk and protective factors involved in emotional health, and addresses the impact of issues such as bullying, social exclusion, loss and bereavement.

Advertising is often used to illustrate popular and academic debates about cultural and economic life. This book reviews cultural and sociological approaches to advertising and, using historical evidence, demonstrates that a rethink of the analysis of advertising is long overdue.

`Essential reading for every SENCO, in fact, for everyone involved in special educational needs' - Dr Tony Lingard, Head of Learning Support, Cambourne Science and Community CollegeThis book provides a `route map' for special education. Through examining related disciplines, which illuminate the field, it considers how special education can be better understood.

Presents reviews and critiques of major topics in organizational psychology - including leadership, motivation, communication, decision making, negotiation, power, productivity and collective action. This text includes a wide range of pedagogical features, glossaries of social identity, and social psychological and organizational terms.

Addiction Recovery Tools: A Practical Handbook presents verified recovery tools with a methodical "when and how" approach for each available tool. Including both Western and Eastern methods, the book catalogs the motivational, medical-pharmaceutical, cognitive-behavioral, psychosocial, and holistic tools accessible in a wide variety of settings and programs.

Discourse Analysis: Investigating Processes of Social Construction provides a concise, straightforward guide for students and researchers who are interested in understanding and using discourse analysis.

The emphasis is on planning for a team approach to problem solving within the context of whole-school improvement.

Employing both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, empowerment evaluation is the use of evaluation concepts, techniques, and findings to foster improvement and self-determination. In this title, the author explores its background and theory and goes on to present the three steps of empowerment evaluation.

Doing Educational Research offers a hands-on guide for students engaged in educational research. It provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the key qualitative and quantitative methods necessary for those commencing research for the first-time.

This introduction to communication theory offers an historical account of the development of all major theoretical approaches by summing up the range of existing theories, and explaining how and why the diverse currents of thought emerged.

Drawing on the work of Derrida, Foucault, Levinas and Ricouer, this book proposes that the question of postmodernity is inseparable from that of postcolonialism. It maps out a new geneaology of the birth of the modern and suggests a new way of grounding the idea of an emancipation of being.

Combines an examination of the traditional philosophies, practices and topics with an emphasis on introducing innovative and contemporary developments in social psychological research. This book contains several features useful for undergraduate course use such as section summaries, further reading and a tutorial.

Argues that sociology has lost its ability to provide critical diagnoses of the human condition because sociology has stopped considering the philosophical requirements of social enquiry. This book attempts to restore that ability by retrieving some of the key questions that sociologists tend to gloss over, inescapability and attainability.

Identifies and explores unresolved controversies and ambiguities in present day sociological theorizing.

Describes the cognitive, emotional and behavioural techniques which clients can use to promote psychological change in themselves. This book discusses obstacles to change, which may arise at different points in the therapeutic process and provides strategies for tackling them.

The belief that change occurs during the therapeutic process is central to all counselling and psychotherapy. This volume examines how change can be facilitated by the counsellor embodying certain therapeutic qualities - in particular empathy, unconditional positive regard and congruence.

Providing an account of British urban planning, this book demonstrates how urban planning can be understood through three categories: ideas, policies, and impacts. It features a chapter on the policy changes that have occurred under the Major and Blair governments.

This practical introduction to journalism covers all the key elements and distinctive features that constitute good newspaper journalism and provides students with a rich resource of real life examples, case studies and exercises.

Whether embarking on a pre-degree foundation course or a postgraduate programme, this book will help students manage all the challenging aspects of studying through the medium of another language, in a new and different environment.

Covers all aspects of project management, explaining in a clear and structured way how to undertake a project and helping readers to identify and acquire the necessary skills to plan and carry out the research and writing. This book provides advice for preparing a project and choosing a topic and offers guidelines for writing a project proposal.

Analyses the remaking of the relationships between welfare, state and nation.