Helps you better understand how you learn, gain a clear idea of your strengths and areas for development, organize yourself for study, write and research academically, pass exams, and cope with stress at university. This book is packed with handy tips, real-life examples and useful activities.

Explains what psychiatry is and what it does. This book looks at the major illnesses and how they are treated, and outlines a brief history of the subject, focusing on the controversies that have inevitably surrounded it - from political abuse to the very existence or otherwise of both mental illness and 'normality'.

Assertive Outreach is the treatment of choice for the severely mentally ill in the community. It involves taking services to the patients rather than requiring them to attend hospitals and clinics. This book will equip all members of Assertive Outreach teams with a clear understanding of the essential processes and interventions involved.

A guide for tutors, lecturers and teachers in further and higher education, who need to teach their students how to study, learn and communicate effectively. It is suitable for institutions concerned with widening participation; with student retention; with quality enhancement; with equal opportunities and with professional/staff development.

Addresses the needs of the individual specialists within the Community Mental Health Teams (CMHT). This book also looks at the development of 'functional' CMHTs - Assertive Outreach, Crisis resolution, and early intervention services, describing how these teams work, their similarities, and their differences.

Helps you better understand how you learn, gain a clear idea of your strengths and areas for development, organize yourself for study, write and research academically, pass exams, and cope with stress at university. This book is packed with handy tips, real-life examples and useful activities.

First published in 1961, The Management of Innovation is an influential book of organization theory and industrial sociology. The central theme of the book is the relationship between an organization and its environment - particularly technological and market innovations.

A guide for tutors, lecturers and teachers in further and higher education, who need to teach their students how to study, learn and communicate effectively. It is suitable for institutions concerned with widening participation; with student retention; with quality enhancement; with equal opportunities and with professional/staff development.

This superb study, written by one of the most respected sociologists at work today, is an indispensible guide to the sociology of Erving Goffman. It offers a compact guide to his key ideas and debates.