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Intelligent School

Using a new model for the classification of types of readings, this book shows how to read, analyze and interpret life story materials. The authors introduce four models: holistic-content reading; holistic-form reading; categorical-content reading; and categorical-form reading.

Therapeutic Work with Sexually Abused Children

Presents an introduction to personal construct counselling for counselling trainees and practitioners. Outlining the key principles of the personal construct approach to counselling and relating them to practice, this book explores ways in which counsellors can build the client's awareness of the manner in which he or she construes problems.

Combines an introduction to key theories in the field with a toolkit of methodological guidelines for analyzing and interpreting organizational life.

This book presents accessible and up-to-date guidelines on the most effective ways of helping clients with anxiety problems. It outlines general methods of working with anxiety sufferers and highlights the issues specific client group.

A new way of conceptualizing the modernity-postmodernity debate, and an exciting new approach to the roots of contemporary social theory.

The benefits of talk to individuals, families and organizations are proclaimed by pop psychologists, television talk show hosts, and management gurus. In this study Deborah Cameron looks at what lies behind the current upsurge of concern about talk in our workplaces, classrooms and private lives.

This book offers a straightforward, practical introduction to evaluation for beginners and practitioners. It shows how to identify appropriate forms and approaches, using an original framework.

A study of institutions, management, ethics and contemporary society.

'... a powerful piece of work that deserves to be read widely. It ranges across central concerns in the fields of social theory, political theory, and science studies and engages with the ideas of key classical and contemporary thinkers' - Barry Smart, Professor of Sociology, University of Portsmouth

Advocating the fundamental need for an innovative and holistic approach to rural development, this book demonstrates and explains, whilst seeking to improve, the mechanisms for planning, managing and financing rural development at the local level.

This book demonstrates how health messages in popular mass media are important influences in our lives, and that they are not neutral, being subject to many determining influences. It demonstrates the importance of mass media for understanding the experience of illness, health and health care.

An anthropological study of the gift, that relates giving to the institutions and social structures of modern life

A first-rate introduction to the study of social networks and more than just a technical manual, this book offers a practical handbook and up-to-date review of the latest research. The authors provide a thorough grounding in the application of the methods of social network analysis.

A dynamic team of authors demonstrates how any classroom teacher can use cooperative learning techniques for lesson planning, classroom management, and improving students' collaboration skills.

Locates contemporary discourses of anorexia nervosa within their historical context, showing how practices continue to be influenced by medicine, psychology, ideology and politics. This book argues that anorexia nervosa must be considered within the political, social and gendered relationships that continue to contribute to its definition.

Analyses where a person's views, attitudes, values come from and why they change?

This reader-friendly guide provides teachers with information, games, book recommendations, specific lesson plans, and straightforward advice on 82 essential aspects of teaching.

This book addresses the role of communication in cultural change efforts within organizations, especially during periods of transition, mergers, technological innovations and globalization.

Shelby Hunt draws on economics, management, marketing and sociology to articulate resource-advantage theory. the author proceeds to illustrate how and why his theory may be used to explain and predict economic phenomena.

Offers a study of quality management that is to be linked with the principles of organizational behavior and analysis. This title bridges the world of theory and practice, making academics aware of developments to improve organizational performance and exploring ways in which these efforts both contribute to and challenge theories.

Designed for the needs of the focus group moderator, this guide covers everything from pre-session participant recruitment to post-session reporting. It includes a wealth of advanced and techniques, such as those for managing group dynamics, energizing a tired group, projective techniques, personality association and position fixing.

Helping the Client is the bestselling text which has long been used as the basis of interpersonal skills training in a wide range of professions from medicine to management. Based on John Heron's well-known six-category model, the book presents different forms of helping behaviour which can be adopted by any practitioner working face-to-face with a client.

The Second Edition of this benchmark publication, places an increased emphasis on the emerging literature in the field and integrates the major advancements in both research and practice. It is an excellent stand-alone text for students or researchers exploring complex issues, and a useful guide for practitioners.

This book traces the major stages of thinking in the development of inclusive education. It provides a synopsis and critique of the last 50 years of the 20th century, including the introduction of the term 'special educational needs', the practice of integration and the present processes of inclusive education.

Offers a guide to the life and work of one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy and most influential thinkers in modern times. Combining insights from his early life, this book traces the development of Jung's ideas on the functioning of the human mind, including the origins of core Jungian concepts such as archetypes, teleology, and alchemy.