Books published by SAGE Publications Ltd

This book demonstrates how the outdoor environment is enriching learning opportunities for children and deepening their connections with the natural world.

Build your confidence, find your voice, and develop your writing skills, with A to Zen advice on writing your master's thesis.

A concise, flexible and wonderfully written textbook which supports undergraduate geography students throughout the stressful dissertation process. Divided into three sections - Designing, Doing and Delivering - it is a complete overview of the key skills needed to prepare, research, and write a successful dissertation.

This is a step-by-step guide to the key skills and techniques of the psychodynamic approach used at each stage of the therapeutic process. It not only addresses how to implement skills, but also why they are being implemented.

Reflecting the current legal, professional and cultural context of CBT practice this book provides CBT therapists with an understanding of CBT values and ethics, drawing on both generic counselling ethics and the principles of clinical ethics.

Looking at contemporary issues including refugee camps, global cities and postcolonial states, this exciting new text explores the processes, practices, and spaces involved with the politics and ethics `hospitality'

Includes most organized discussion of mass media culture, the meaning of leisure, and anomie in affluent society.

With expanded coverage of Fleck and a new section on 'Transformations of the Medical Profession', this updated Third Edition provides students with a sociologically-focussed and theoretically informed introduction

Detailing over 60 different special needs conditions this book is an ideal 'go-to-guide' to help teachers understand, identify and work with children who have special needs.

Fully updated to reflect recent developments in CBT theory and featuring over 40 video role plays, illustrating scenarios in practice from physical techniques to wider applications of CBT, including for eating disorders, substance abuse and self-harm.

Helps students understand how theory impacts and informs social work practice across a range of contexts and with different service user groups

Easy to use, understand and put into practice, this book will answer all your students' questions on the nursing research process.

This book helps you understand what is meant by 'school readiness' in the context of child development and wellbeing alongside practical guidance to give children the best start in their most formative years.

This Major Work addresses the lack of consolidation of knowledge in the field, drawing on a wide range of specialisms and so allowing researchers to 'see' the field clearly, and understand its development over time.

Across four volumes, the editors present the foundational articles that have shaped mainstream academic discourse surrounding this topic as well as other provocative pieces.

This Major Work brings together articles that have made an impact and have implications beyond their disciplinary field or topic, presented in four comprehensive volumes.

With exercises and case studies, this book includes chapter on debates and developments, politics, prejudice, power and privilege; and client perception.

This exciting seventh edition, now situated in a global context with international examples throughout, has been updated to now cover strategy and planning in the public sector; transparency, accountability and ethics; and non-profit management

Providing a full introduction to all the theory and skills needed to work across the range of helping professions, this book introduces students to the three core approaches of counselling, coaching and mentoring, and shows how they work across a variety of settings, including therapy, teaching, social work and nursing.

This Major Work collection takes a comparative approach, looking both historically and internationally at this very important subject area, including a comprehensive introduction to the whole work as well as introductions to each of the volumes.

Focussing on the origins and cultures of the idea of climate, this discipline-spanning, authoritative text provides readers with an exciting addition to the literature

A complete guide to exploring values and ethics in coaching

Pragmatic and teacher-focused book on how to approach the controversial and difficult teaching topic of the Holocaust.

Featuring contributions from more than 50 of the biggest names in the international field, The BERA/SAGE Handbook of Educational Research represents a very significant contribution to the development of education.

Now updated with coverage on babies and early reading, language acquisition and how children learn, this new edition continues to provide trainees and teachers with a broad understanding of teaching reading and phonics.

Offering a truly global perspective, this Major Work collection brings together core topics of research and debate, including; cultural theory, representation, identity, popular music and material culture.

Provides the perfect reference point for graduate students, scholars, and researchers wishing to familiarise themselves with current research and debate in the academic literature on coaching.

This best-selling handbook has been brought fully up-to-date with coverage of recent developments in the field including social media, big data, data visualization and CAQDAS.

This book will help students demonstrate a thorough understanding of the history of psychology, as well as the subject's complex theoretical and sometimes controversial philosophical foundations.

Examines the use of digital technology in the early stages of child development and the way in which learning techniques have evolved in classrooms across the world.