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MBA Admissions Strategy is a guide to the four aspects of a successful, competitive business school application.

This book examines key factors that affect public health, underlying concepts and the history of environmental health.

This accessible guide will help nurses and midwives to understand and be prepared for their revalidation.

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

Pharmacology and medicines management for mental health nurses.

Encourages early years and education students and professionals to develop a critical disposition towards diversity, difference and social justice

Offers practical guidance on developing high quality interactions to better scaffold children's learning and development.

A practical guide to the full spectrum of safeguarding children work, from prevention to statutory intervention and serious case review.

Provides a skilfully balanced mix of essential theory and practical guidance to support you if you are studying an 'education and training' qualification. This book covers fundamental background information such as key philosophies and concepts, current policy and practice, key thinkers and ideas, and includes a useful chronology.

Bestselling introductory book for trainee primary teachers, containing essential information, guidance and enhanced by real life cameos.

Explores the lived experiences of those involved in educating children and young people with special educational needs.

Practical guide describing up-to-date strategies to help both professionals and trainees work more effectively with stepfamilies

The essential student guide to correct referencing, citation and avoiding plagiarism in university assignments.

Exploits the links between primary maths and science to show how to integrate these two tricky subjects through a range of innovative teaching ideas.

This book provides foundational knowledge of grammar, as well as how to teach grammar in creative and meaningful ways in the primary classroom.

This accessible book is designed specifically for paramedics and student paramedics looking for a quick reference guide to key assessment skills.

This book is a practical and up-to-date text on Assessment, a fundamental skill for mental health nurses.

Considers mental health needs of children & young people for all health and social care professionals.

An accessible yet well-theorized book that helps new and experienced SENCOs carry out their duties.

Core nursing text exploring person -centred care.

This book charts the origins and developments of the Person-Centred approach up to the present, and moves on to explore the cutting edge of the work in its application to different and diverse groups within society.

Understanding Public Health is an innovative series published by Open University Press in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, where it is used as a key learning resource for postgraduate programmes. It provides self-directed learning covering the major issues in public health affecting low-, middle- and high-income countries.Communicable diseases are ever present in the world today. Social and economic issues like poverty, access to essential vaccinations and lack of substantive healthcare systems contribute to mortality rates alongside epidemiological factors like portals of entry and bacterial sources.This public health textbook, in exploring the causes and conditions of communicable diseases like ebola and malaria, clearly outlines communicable disease control and prevention measures as well as how to apply these measures effectively in different contexts and populations around the world.The result is an engaging and insightful textbook that encourages readers to apply their learning of communicable disease control to diverse applied settings through case studies and activities. It is balanced in its approach, discussing infections and their incidence alongside the means of prevention and the vital conditions for effective response in outbreak situations. Applied Communicable Disease Control is key reading for all those working in, or studying, public health and epidemiology.Series Editors: Rosalind Plowman and Nicki Thorogood.

This book is the essential handbook for all trainee teachers and NQTs and a valuable reference for more experienced teachers who want to develop their approach to complex behavioural challenges.

This innovative textbook adopts a lifespan approach to mental health.

Clinical case book on peri-operative practice for ODPs and Nurses.

Offers evidenced-based insight into how children learn science, as well as which teaching approaches are most successful

Pocketbook guide for social workers for developing key skills in structuring, presenting and writing clear and professional reports.

This book gives social workers practical guidance on how to write analytically.

This book is your essential guide to becoming a paramedic, providing practical information and advice to help you achieve your qualification and get a job.