Grab this essential aid for social work students preparing for and undertaking work placements. Focussing on reflective practice and full of tips, quotes, activities and illustrations, it offers clear advice and support for students and an insight into students' concerns and expectations for practice assessors, lecturers and practitioners.

Written by an experienced academic-practitioner, the new edition of this best-selling text is updated to include the current educational, policy and practice context of social work. It includes descriptions of over fifty social work skills, with case examples to illustrate their creative use in practice.

Helps to assess whether you've got the right characteristics to make a success of self-employment. This title enables to learn about business plans; survival income; discounting; researching your market; targeting your customers; listening to your customers and keeping them happy; marketing and selling; and, tax, national insurance and VAT.

Anthony Robbins teaches us that success is habit forming and the habit of success, once learned, is nearly impossible to forget - and all in a brilliant new series design for Robbins.

This is the long awaited second-edition of Paul McGee's international bestselling personal development heavyweight S.U.M.O. Weighing in with humour, insight, practical tips and personal anecdotes, it's a thought provoking - and possibly life-changing - read. S.U.M.O.

Understand Counselling will teach you invaluable counselling skills and techniques which you can apply to all areas of your life.

Practise the skills and techniques of Neuro-Linguistic Programming in just five minutes a day with this handy, portable guide.

Numerical reasoning and data interpretation tests are routinely used in recruitment procedures. These tests represent a considerable challenge for many candidates, and the prospect of facing them can be daunting. Designed to help people lacking in practice or confidence, this title is suitable for those who need to brush up on their maths skills.

All of us have dreams about what we'd like to do, who we'd like to be and where we'd like to go in life. This book shows us that we can turn our own lives around, setting out the 10 steps to taking control of our lives. It uses case studies, affirmations and motivational techniques to keep us going.