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A core text for primary teacher training, supporting new teachers to ensure their classrooms are truly inclusive for all children.

The definitive guide to the skills, techniques, and concepts used when working with children experiencing emotional challenges. It covers all you need to know about:· The child-counsellor relationship· Practice frameworks for working effectively· Play therapy and the use of different media and activities· Building self-esteem and social skills through the use of worksheets· The concepts of wellbeing and resilience. New to this edition:· Technology: its influence on children and ways it can be used in counselling· Counselling in a post-pandemic world and the role of remote counselling and ‘telehealth’ · More discussion of issues of diversity, difference, intersectionality, implicit bias, and an inclusive practice· Updated case studies to affirm diversity and represent wider populace· Expanded and updated end of chapter further resources· Updated conclusion (with reflections on the pandemic)· Greater focus on inclusive practice and how SPICC model can be applied across various social/cul

Straightforward, clear, and applied, this book will give you the theoretical and practical basis you need to apply data analysis techniques to real data. Combining key statistical concepts with detailed technical advice, it addresses common themes and problems presented by real research, and shows you how to adjust your techniques and apply your statistical knowledge to a range of datasets. It also embeds code and software output throughout and is supported by online resources to enable practice and safe experimentation. The book includes: · Original case studies and data sets · Practical exercises and lists of commands for each chapter · Downloadable Stata programmes created to work alongside chapters · A wide range of detailed applications using Stata · Step-by-step guidance on writing the relevant code. This is the perfect text for anyone doing statistical research in the social sciences getting started using Stata for data analysis.

Unlock the full potential of your qualitative research projects with this invaluable manual from world-renowned authority Johnny Saldaña. This essential guide delves into the latest advancements in coding, including the integration of AI tools like ChatGPT-4, empowering researchers to enhance their data analysis processes and outcomes. This clearly updated edition offers:· Comprehensive Coverage: Explore over 35 coding methods, complete with datasets, software screenshots, and multidisciplinary academic references.· Global Appeal: Designed for an international readership, with inclusive data and real-world examples. · Practical Guidance: Clear, academically grounded advice that bridges the gap between data generation and analysis, ensuring credibility and trustworthiness. · Modern Relevance: Facilitates both manual and online coding, with detailed insights into CAQDAS and digital data handling.Ideal for students, researchers, and professionals in education, the social sciences, and bey

A comprehensive resource that explores the global and contemporary practices of political marketing, offering insights from diverse regions and addressing the latest trends and challenges.

This bestselling book introduces you step-by-step to the key skills needed to become a successful coach. Focusing on the main coaching skills of listening, asking powerful questions, playing back and noticing, this practical book supports you to become more self-aware and confident as you support others to learn, grow and develop. Supported by a suite of video examples and practical activities, this book is an invaluable companion for novices and trainee coaches.Now in its fourth edition, this book is more aligned to the competencies of the leading professional associations of coaching and has been revised and updated to take into account developments in the field.New to Fourth Edition:New learning features, including "What the professional associations say", "Reflect on your practice", and "A question for you"New suite of 30 online video examples displaying a range of key coaching skills in actionNew chapter on "coaching in context" on the implications of coaching in different context

Have you found some exciting images that you want to explore but don’t know how to start your research or what methods to choose? Do you have a question about an aspect of visual culture that you want to answer?Whatever level of experience you have, this classic text will provide you with the key skills you need to complete a visual methods research project, understand the rationale behind each step, and engage with the contexts and power relations that shape our interpretation of visual images.With a clear step-by-step approach that is easy to dip in and out of, the book features:•Key examples in every methods chapter to demonstrate how the methods work in practice and with different visual materials•‘Focus’ and ‘Discussion’ features that help you practice your skills at specific parts of the methods and understand some of the method’s complexities•Guidance on researching using digital visual media, such as Instagram and TikTok, integrated throughout the book This bestselling critical

Designed to support your early childhood studies, this is the companion for your research journey. Structured to follow key topics as you encounter them on your course, this book leads you through the concepts and processes needed to design and carry out successful and ethical early childhood research.