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This groundbreaking book equips mental health nurses with knowledge of physical health issues and clinical insights into best practice.

The book is intended to give enough information and ideas for trainee teachers to approach the practical business of teaching with confidence.

This book looks at what we know about becoming a skilled performer or practitioner and how this relates to classroom teaching and learning.

Gestalt Coaching sets out an accessible, succinct yet critical examination of the approach, key concepts and emerging methodology for Gestalt coaching practice.

This book is an essential guide if you are working in higher education and seeking professional recognition for your role in teaching and supporting learning, and particularly if you are seeking a fellowship with the UK Higher Education Academy (HEA).

Covers palliative care and end of life skills needed by health care workers.

Using CBT exercises to understand what drives your low self-esteem, you will learn how to recognize your strengths and keep your inner critic at bay.

Pocketbook guide full of practical advice for social workers for conducting home visits in child protection.

Offers a practical guide to clinical governance in healthcare, designed to help practitioners and students deliver quality care to patients and improve the patient experience at every level. Grounded in the application of clinical governance, this book explains in detail what it looks like in practice.

Understanding Early Childhood is an introductory text for students on early years courses which offers broad and insightful perspectives across a range of themes on the ways in which we understand and study young children.

This book straightforwardly describes how adults can support children's free play, with a holistic, inclusive and practical approach.

A comprehensive text on dementia care, drawn from research evidence, practice and the experience of people with dementia.

The new edition of this book aims to critically examine the new EYFS and the key elements of the revised framework document.

Offers 176 ideas for teaching primary mathematics - adaptable for use within different areas of mathematics and for different ages. Tackling children's misconceptions in each topic area and differentiation through open-ended tasks and elements of choice, this book encourages you to think about the teaching of the primary mathematics curriculum.

Analysis is a critical skill for social workers, yet it is a skill that many practitioners find very difficult. This book helps social workers to improve their analysis skills by offering a very basic, step-by-step model to develop an analytical mindset.

Nursing involves caring for the whole person, and taking care of both physical and psychosocial needs. This book aims to help the reader to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to care for the whole person and to ensure the patient is at the centre of the care-giving experience. It considers different aspects of therapeutic nursing care.

Articulates the first comprehensive person-centred communication model, and its use in therapy and the helping professions.

An introduction to the diverse settings of social work, detailing the relevant policy context, methods and approaches.

The story of how a leader in business became a coach, with case studies and reflections to show how to get the best out of yourself and others.

This book offers a practical step-by-step guide to action research and an examination of the underlying principles and challenges.

Offers an insight into children's fascination with superheroes and weapon play. This title explores what lies at the heart of superhero and weapon play and why so many children are drawn to this contentious area of children's play.

This book helps early years practitioners improve their observation, assessment & planning techniques.

Suitable for social workers working within the youth justice system, this book demonstrates how practitioners can work in creative, ethical and reflective ways within Youth Offending Teams. It covers topics that include: Legislation Multiagency working; Risk assessment; Working with high risk offenders; Alternative interventions and more.

Mental health nurses need to work within the law to ensure good, legal care for their patients, while at the same time being guided by appropriate values. This practical handbook for mental health nurses covers the different stages of mental healthcare delivery in a range of healthcare settings.

This practical handbook reviews helpful approaches and exercises when working with older learners. It offers practical applications including using discussion, incorporating technology and becoming critically reflective. It tackles some of the major challenges you may face such as addressing inequality and diversity and dealing with resistance.

This book demystifies reflective practice, which is at the heart of becoming a competent and confident social work professional.

This book is for students who either never obtained any formal qualifications in mathematics, or whose knowledge became rusty through prolonged lack of use. It contains many worked examples, illustrations and exercises with solutions to reinforce understanding of the material.

This fully updated edition will help students and professionals develop an understanding of the core health promotion theories.

This book provides a wide range of practitioners with unique access to examples of real lessons judged by Her Majesty's Inspectors (HMI) to be outstanding.