This sixth edition of Richard Nelson-Jones' bestselling book is a step-by-step guide to using counselling and helping skills with confidence and proficiency. The author's three-stage model of counselling is designed to facilitate developing lifeskills in clients and to help them to change how they feel, think, communicate and act.

This manageable guide provides students with not only the nuts and bolts needed to get started, but also guidance on ethics, preparation strategies and advice for tackling the unexpected - making it the ideal companion for all students starting out on their research project

Fully revised and updated fourth edition of this classic journalism textbook. Practical, accessible and full of cutting edge examples.

This is a highly practical approach to learning the essential policing skills that a student officer must acquire to satisfy the requirements of IPLDP.

This book helps medical students learn the essentials of safe prescribing practice, and prepare for their prescribing exams.

A self-help DIY book for doing research - tells the reader everything they need to know to do research, and to understand others' research.

A compendium of policing skills specifically designed to aid both newly-recruited and established Police Community Support Officers (PSCOs).

Written for social work practitioners involved in practice education, this overview of contemporary theory and knowledge helps to develop readers' skills as practice educators.