Books published by SAGE Publications Ltd

Providing a solid foundation for understanding and supporting learners with additional needs, this comprehensive text is ideal for students, teachers or practitioners.

The ABC of CBT introduces you to the basics of CBT, guiding practitioners through how to apply the key principles, techniques and strategies across a range of disorders.

This practical guide for teaching numeracy to children with a developmental disability is based on core concepts from the landmark Mathematics Recovery (R) text Teaching Number (aka 'the green book') that have been adapted for children with developmental disabilities.

There is a pressing need for new teachers to understand the wider context of language development and to know how best to support children in learning to talk. This accessible text introduces trainee teachers to the numerous contexts of language development and supports readers to understand the many ways in which children acquire language skills.

Unpacking the vital elements of SEND, Special Educational Needs in the Early Years seeks to empower students to not only understand the impact of policy on practice, but to question it.

Provides final year nursing students with comprehensive guidance on how to make the leap from student to registered nurse, helping them to master the skills needed to progress from supervised to professional practice.

This is an essential companion to your coaching training. It guides you through the foundational knowledge and skills, looks at ethics and practice issues, answers key questions about the training process, and includes top tips from students.

A beginner's guide to reflective practice that guides the reader through how to write reflectively throughout their career in nursing, from the first reflective exercise at university to carrying out reflective practice on placement or as a professional nurse.

Covering the entire research process - from theory through data collection and analysis to writing up the project - this book offers an easy-to-follow introduction to qualitative methods in nursing and healthcare.

This Little Quick Fix helps readers truly understand their perspectives and use that understanding to inform their research approach, enabling first-time researchers to reflect upon and identify their view of truth and knowledge. After reading they will be better placed to choose and critically evaluate appropriate research questions and make informed methodological decisions.

This easy to read guide continues to provide a concise overview of the different research methods and terminology and helps readers understand how research is implemented in practice.

A comprehensive primer on major educational theorists, building on Aubrey & Riley's main book and offering a practical, theoretical and critical overview of more challenging theorists, including many with a strong sociological focus.

The Politics of Fear traces the trajectory of far-right politics from the margins of the political landscape to its very center. It explores the social and historical mechanisms at play, and expertly ties these to the "micro-politics" of far-right language and discourse.

A clear favourite among students and lecturers, this bestselling book introduces the main theoretical models in a clear and accessible way before applying them to various stages of the life course. From infants to older adults, the author uses case studies and practice examples to bring social work methods, skills and principles to life.

A new text providing an international and contemporary introduction to Entrepreneurship, treating it as an evolving and ever-emerging social phenomenon and exploring recent trends that impact it.

Through templates and real-world examples, this step-by-step guide clearly illustrates what good and bad data look like, in order to help students get going quickly and build an effective survey around a research question. In each chapter, survey-based challenges are linked to the broader research issues, maintaining the important theoretical context to the learning process.

Balancing theoretical foundations with practical strategies, this book helps you develop an approach to your qualitative data analysis that is both systematic and insightful.

Familiarity with law, legislation and legal processes is fundamental to sound social work practice. This book helps social work students gain this foothold in understanding law as it applies to social work practice.

Presentations are increasingly a key assessment of student research and projects, and are one of the core employability skills. Zina O'Leary's Fix shows students how to nail them.

This book is an essential guide for apprentices and their trainers. It supports you to prepare for the Gateway and get ready for your EPA. It helps you to make sense of EPA and to understand the expectations of your assessors.

By using a unique format made up of over 150 frequently asked questions and corresponding answers, Key Questions in Healthcare covers the what, why, where and how in legal and ethical issues related to healthcare.

A clear introduction to effective decision making in nursing providing an overview of the theory, knowledge, models and frameworks that can help nurses make better decisions.

A Super Quick guide to building your transferable skills and maximising your employability and job prospects after graduation.

A Super Quick guide to managing your physical and mental health and wellbeing at university, giving you the tools and resources to meet the demands of student life and beyond.

A Super Quick guide to successfully managing your time, balancing your commitments and achieving your academic goals.