Open University Press

What are the key skills needed to be a successful coach, mentor or supervisor? How can personal development be effectively facilitated? What are the ethical guidelines for practicing as a coach, mentor or organizational consultant? In the last six years, there has been an enormous growth in the fields of coaching, mentoring and consultancy. These...

This ground-breaking book will give you the skills you need to become an advanced coach. Coaches tend to come from either a business background or a helping profession background, and each finds the other's approach limiting. The concept of coaching with empathy, in other words giving the coaching client your total attention, is a winning...

Why do people stop offending? What are the processes they undergo in stopping? What can be done to help more people who have offended put their pasts behind them? The growth of interest in why people stop offending and how they are resettled following punishment has been remarkable. Once a marginal topic in criminology, it is now a central topic of...

The third edition of Blackstone's Student Police Officer Handbook is a key text for student police officers undergoing their initial police training and provides all the underpinning subject matter and skills development materials required for the Initial Police Learning and Development Program (IPLDP). Fully updated for the third edition, the...

Review of the first edition"a fine and refreshing collection of articlesż Each chapter is integrated closely with the others, [making] The Excellence of Play easy to dip into as well as presenting readers with the opportunity to read in more detail about aspects of play theory in practice that particularly interest themż This is exactly the kind of...

We live in increasingly conflictual times. We also live in increasingly mediatized times. Mediatized Conflict explores the powered dynamics, contested representations and consequential impacts of media conflict reporting in the contemporary era. It examines how the media today do not simply `reportż or `representż diverse situations of conflict,...