Resilience-Centered Counseling: A Liberating Approach for Change and Wellbeing provides readers with a therapeutic approach that is resilience-focused, strength-centered, and grounded in the cutting-edge principles of postmodernism, humanism, cybernetics, and neurobiology. The text recognizes that people are far more than the challenges they face ......
Research Methods in Social Work helps students develop evidence-based practice by involving them in the process of research methodology. An innovative storytelling approach follows two students engaged in internships who go through the steps and tasks required to design a program and evaluate it in their practicum. Readers can see how realistic ......
Focusing specifically on scientific research in criminal justice, the 4th Edition of this text introduces students to qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research in a uniquely applied, relevant manner easily understood by future criminal justice professionals. Divided into four sections (introduction to research in criminal justice; ......
Research Methods: Studying Urban Crime examines aspects of crime from a variety of perspectives and describes how researchers can conduct effective and valuable research in the discipline. Utilising an urban context, the contributed chapters provide strategies for exploring various elements of crime and a solid knowledge base on crime-related ......
Research and Practice in Non-Western Cultures: The Need for a Paradigm Shift in Mental Health reviews the current ethnocentric approach in mental health research and practice and presents issues that need to be considered for non-Western cultures. The book is organized into three sections that progressively describe the development of Western ......
Research is often an intimidating topic in a counsellor training program -- but it doesn't have to be. The third edition of Research and Evaluation in Counseling serves to alleviate readers' concerns while providing them with an impactful learning experience. It presents the most essential components of research and illustrates them with ......
Removing the Fear and Mystique from the Research Process provides readers with an exploration of the often-daunting landscape of academic research. The book seeks to demystify the intricacies of research methodology and equip readers with practical strategies to engage with and contribute to their respective fields of study. Structured to address ......
Their contributions are enduring. Their influence is profound. Their legacies touch our everyday lives. In Remember the First Ladies: The Legacies of America's History-Making Women, communication, history, and government scholars and professionals Diana B. Carlin, Anita B. McBride, and Nancy Kegan Smith provide readers with an illuminating and ......
Religion and Medicine from the Pre-Axial Age to Modernity: An Introductory Reader probes the rich and varied intersections between religious beliefs and medical practices that have existed over time, grounding its approach in the influential concept of the Axial Age and relating it to modern biomedical advancements. The anthology navigates ......
