Research Books
Systemic Inquiry: Innovations in Reflexive Practice Research
This collection has been written by eminent members of the systemic communities to inspire reflexive practitioners and offer leading edge systemic research methodology with innovative approaches to... (more)
The Counselling and Psychotherapy Research Handbook: A Guide for Counsellors and Psychotherapists
Research is a vital and often daunting component of many counselling and psychotherapy courses. As well as completing their own research projects, trainees across modalities must understand the... (more)
The Psychology of Feeling Sorry: The Weight of the Soul
Can feeling genuinely sorry enable an important healing experience? Can relieving the weight of guilt restore a general sense of self-worth? Can an individual's dawning awareness give birth to... (more)
Qualitative Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Second Edition
The need to show how and why counselling works has led to an explosion of research activity, and a growing focus on research in counselling and psychotherapy teaching and practice. Yet this book,... (more)
Multiple Case Study Analysis
Examining situational complexity is a vital part of social and behavioural science research. This engaging text provides an effective process for studying multiple cases - such as sets of teachers,... (more)
Qualitative Research Practice
Written by internationally-recognized qualitative researchers who recount and reflect on their own and others' research experiences, this text demonstrates the benefits of using particular methods... (more)
Behavioural and Mental Health Research: A Handbook of Skills and Methods
This textbook is a revised, updated and expanded version of a guide to research skills for psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, social workers and graduates training in those disciplines. It... (more)
Using Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy
In this book bestselling author John McLeod examines the multiple ways in which research can be used to inform and enhance counselling practice. The author discusses how research impacts on policy... (more)
What Works for Whom? A Critical Review of Treatments for Children and Adolescents: Second Edition
The standard reference in the field, this acclaimed work synthesizes findings from hundreds of carefully selected studies of mental health treatments for children and adolescents. Chapters on... (more)
An Introduction to Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Introducing the basic principles of research theory and practice, this book is the ideal starter text for any counselling trainee or practitioner learning about the research process for the first... (more)
Transforming Self and Others Through Research
Brings the transformative approaches of transpersonal psychology to research in the human sciences and humanities.
Research approaches in the field of transpersonal psychology can be transformative... (more)
Reaching the Hard to Reach: Evidence-based Funding Priorities for Intervention and Research
Social inequality and social disadvantage provide an all too fertile soil that sustains the majority of the serious mental health problems suffered by children in our society. The complexity of the... (more)
Critical Discursive Psychology
Critical Discursive Psychology addresses issues in critical discursive research in psychology and outlines the historical context in the discipline for the emergence of qualitative debates. Key... (more)
Beginning Research in the Arts Therapies: A Practical Guide
This guide to beginning a research project in the arts therapies, be it for an MA dissertation or a report, tackles various aspects from writing an initial funding proposal and finding a title, to... (more)
Adversity, stress and psychopathology:
"Adversity" involves exposure to unpropitious or calamitous circumstances and it varies with gender, ethnic or racial background and socioeconomic status. In this volume, investigators review... (more)
Phenomenological Psychology: Theory, Research and Method
This is a student friendly and comprehensive introduction to phenomenological theory and methods: the study of phenomena, rather than the science of being. Popular as phenomenology is in qualitative... (more)
Handbook of Arts-Based Research
Bringing together interdisciplinary leaders in methodology and arts-based research (ABR), this comprehensive handbook explores the synergies between artistic and research practices and addresses... (more)
Constructing Grounded Theory
This is the second edition of Kathy Charmaz's groundbreaking and bestselling text on grounded theory. It retains the accessible and engaging style of the first edition to present for readers a... (more)
Mixing methods in psychology: The integration of qualitative and quantitative methods in theory and practice
Can you combine qualitative and quantitative methods in psychology? What are the practical and theoretical issues involved? This volume looks in detail at the problems involved in attempting to... (more)
Practice and research in social work: Postmodern feminist perspectives
Appraising key issues in the contested fields of postmodernism and feminism, this text focuses on applications in relation to practice, research and education in social work. 201 pages. (more)
The Palgrave Handbook of Psychosocial Studies
Over the past decades, psychosocial studies has demonstrated its strengths and influence across diverse sites of theory and practice; it continues to grow as an area of transdisciplinary research... (more)
Doing Research with Children and Young People
Doing Research with Children and Young People introduces researchers to the key considerations involved in working with children and young people.
Research Questions
Crucial starting points for research are often poorly conceived by students and researchers. As they often spend six months to a year getting their research question right, this book should help set... (more)
Attachment Theory and Research: New Directions and Emerging Themes
This volume showcases the latest theoretical and empirical work from some of the top scholars in attachment. Extending classic themes and describing important new applications, the book examines... (more)
The Assessment of Psychosis: A Reference Book and Rating Scales for Research and Practice
This book reviews the descriptive features of psychotic symptoms in various medical conditions (psychiatric, early psychosis, general medical, neurological and dementia), non-medical settings... (more)
Doing Narrative Research: Second Edition
Written by an international team of experts in the field, the second edition of this popular text considers both the theoretical underpinnings and practical applications of narrative research. The... (more)
Gender and Qualitative Methods:
This text outlines the practical and philosophical issues of gender in qualitative research, and covers areas including field work, life story, membership categorization analysis, and analysis of... (more)