This lively, concise and to-the-point guide offers hints and practical sugestions to help you develop good exam-preparation skills and build your confidence, so that you can get results that do justice to the work you've put in.

Provides an overview of the self and how it is conceptualized across the psychotherapies within various theories of personality. Outlining some of the philosophical and historical issues surrounding the notion of selfhood, this book examines classical and developmental models of psychoanalytic thought that implicitly point to the idea of self.

Examines self-advocacy in the lives of people with learning difficulties. This book uses the term 'learning difficulties' to describe people who have been labelled at some point in their lives as requiring specialist 'mental handicap services'. It is useful for supporters, policy makers, professionals and service providers.

Informs SENCOs what they must do to meet the national statutory requirements, as well as when and how to implement and enhance them

Integrates theoretical insights into sexuality, sexual health and ageing and includes research findings from studies conducted with older people and the professionals that work with them. This book is suitable for students, researchers, practitioner and policymakers working within gerontology, sociology, psychology, and social work.

Details the common approaches to social simulation, to provide social scientists with an appreciation of the literature and allow those with some programming skills to create their own simulations. This book presents the techniques of building computer simulations to assist understanding of social and economic issues and problems.

This book provides a practical and accessible, skills-based text on how to implement and engage in clinical supervision, with real-life examples.

Explores the ways of defining and enacting social justice in the context of social welfare and crime control policies. This work considers the various ways in which social justice illuminates the multiple connections between social welfare and crime control policies, as well as the ambiguities, tensions and contradictions arising from them.