Product Description: The impetus for this book came from an appreciation that reflexivity, for both consultant and client, is the core ingredient for facilitating the "changing organization." Central to this belief, Reflexive Inquiry (RI) draws on the spirit of five overlapping theoretical traditions--systemic, social constructionist, critical, appreciative, and complexity...read more

Product Description: Children’s advocacy has grown enormously in recent years. However, while quality standards provide a useful framework for guiding advocacy practice, not enough is known about the current state of advocacy practice on the ground...read more

Product Description: There have been a great many interventions designed to improve the life chances of young children in some way. Few of these have been properly evaluated, and not all have been shown to be effective. This review assesses the research evidence on what types of early interventions are most effective in preventing social exclusion outcomes, such as poor educational achievement...read more

Product Description: A major revision of Freudian theory: exposes the degree to which Freud - attuned to the inner world of the male - could do no more than guess at that of the female. This book should be of interest to students of women's studies, psychoanalytic theory and psychology.