Fiona: 1484 books
Illegal Leisure Revisited
Changing Patterns of Alcohol and Drug Use in Adolescents and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book updates the progress into adulthood of the cohort of fourteen-year-olds who were recruited and tracked until they were eighteen years old. Illegal Leisure (1998) described their adolescent journeys and lifestyles, focusing on their early regular drinking and extensive ‘recreational’...
Creative Supervision Across Modalities
Theory and applications for therapists, counsellors and other helping professionals
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
Creative methods can bring depth and new perspectives to the supervision process. This book proposes that a firm understanding of supervision theory is the vital foundation to utilising the power of creativity in reflection and learning, and demonstrates that these creative approaches are applicable...
Break Free from OCD
Overcoming Obsessive Compulsive Disorder with CBT
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Are you plagued by obsessive thoughts, rituals or routines? Would you like to regain control over your behaviour and cast your fears aside?
Whether you are compelled to wash your hands more and more thoroughly or feel the need to keep checking that you've turned off appliances, obsessive worries...
Study Skills Box Set
containing Effective Notetaking, Mnemonics for Study, How to Learn, and Successful Learning Simplified
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A successful student uses effective strategies. This box-set includes 4 workbooks on study skills. The first looks at taking notes — a broad category that encompasses many strategies, not simply the obvious ones such as how to format your notes, use headings and highlighting, how to summarize, how...
by Judith Aldridge, Fiona Measham, Howard Parker
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Illegal Leisure offers a unique insight into the role drug use now plays in British youth culture. The authors present the results of a five year longitudinal study into young people and drug taking. They argue that drugs are no longer used as a form of rebellious behaviour, but have been subsumed...
Bite Sized
A mother's journey alongside anorexia
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Bite Sized is a mother's story of striving to nourish her child. It is about a monster that lurks close by all of us in the modern world - the monster of 'too much' and 'not enough'. It is about a ravenous illness and threads, between parents and children, that connect, entangle, unravel and stretch. Above all, it is about taking on the monsters and trusting in the importance of love.
by Nisha Dogra, Andrew Parkin, Clay Frake
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This handbook provides a succinct introduction to child mental health, covering the nature, prevalence, treatment and management of mental health problems in children and young people.
The authors explore a range of issues surrounding the emotional needs of young people, showing how specific...
by N. Cameron, Fiona McDermott
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2007
This book brings sociological and neuroscientific perspectives on the body together to inform a new understanding of person-in-environment. It offers important new ways of working with people in various social work and social care settings from child protection to aged care, mental health and work with drug and alcohol use.
by Fiona Harper
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Three wishes this Christmas
A new life in the country:
It has taken all of Louise Thornton's courage to start again. This will be a different life, one away from the paparazzi-and her cheating celebrity husband!
Someone to help decorate the Christmas tree:
Louise is determined...
by Fiona Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
This book will tell you about me and how a cancerous lump in my breast and the journey through the diagnosis, operation, treatment and recovery has changed my life in a positive way. I will share with you my feelings and the funny things that happened along the way. I will tell you how it has changed...
Alternative Approaches to Education
A Guide for Teachers and Parents
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Alternative Approaches to Education provides parents and teachers with information and guidance on different education options in the UK and further afield. This new and expanded edition, including additional chapters and up-to-date contact details, explains the values, philosophies and methods of...
Intercultural Communicative Competence for Global Citizenship
Identifying cyberpragmatic rules of engagement in telecollaboration
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
This work builds on the assumption that language learning and teaching needs to be made more relevant to the 'glocalised' digital world we live in. Its authors argue that staff in Higher Education (HE) must prepare students for effective online interaction and explores the digital, linguistic and...
Foundations of Primary Mathematics Education
An introduction to curriculum, pedagogy and content
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Many pre-service teachers admit to feeling unsure about the mathematics they will have to teach in primary school. Others find it difficult to know how to apply the theories of teaching and learning they study in other courses to the teaching of mathematics.
This book begins by outlining some...
by Dr Fiona Brookman
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2005
"Lively and engaging, Understanding Homicide impressively fills an important gap in the current criminological literature... an authoritative and readable text on homicide."
Keith Soothill, Lancaster University, UK
Why do people kill?
How is homicide investigated?
What...