Personal and professional development activities are a central component of Counselling Psychology training due to regulatory requirements and the high value Counselling Psychology places on the therapist’s "self". Most research on the facilitation of personal and professional d…
This thesis is an account of the campaign to abolish the death penalty for murder in Britain from the mid 1950s to the late 1960s. It examines the campaign and the debate that it generated from a very broad perspective. It looks briefly at the history of capital punishment in th…
This thesis explores the relationship between an international non-governmental organisation (INGO) and a community based organisation (CBO) addressing the HIV/AIDs-related orphan and vulnerable children (OVC) crisis in Zimbabwe. The study engages with how INGOs have emerged as …
There is good evidence that the use of online counselling is increasing and related to this has been an expansion of services and individuals offering online counselling services. However, there is a dearth of research which has investigated processes occurring during online the…
This handbook takes voluntary associations as the starting point for making sense of communities. It offers a new perspective on voluntary organizations and gives an integrated, yet diverse, theoretical understanding of this important aspect of community life.
How citizens and residents come together informally to act and solve problems has rarely been addressed. Little direct research or theory dealing with this subject exists, and correcting that deficit is the task of this book. The book builds a theory of local organizations by pr…
"In Making the World Safe, historian Julia Irwin offers an insightful account of the American Red Cross, from its founding in 1881 by Clara Barton to its rise as the government's official voluntary aid agency. Equally important, Irwin shows that the story of the Red Cross is sim…
The purpose of this ministry project is to promote longevity in ministry by equipping a select group of new pastors within the Pillar Church Planting Network (hereafter the Pillar Network). Those chosen have less than three years of experience in a pastoral role in their local c…
This study seeks to analyse the evolution of the European International Business Academy's Annual Conferences between the years 1999 and 2011. A collection of the 2221 documents presented across the defined period was processed with the use of a computer-aided tool - the Latent …
How do actors contribute to the creation new markets? Comprised of three essays, this dissertation examines roles and strategies of actors in establishing new market structures for sustainable technologies and services in fields with different degrees of institutionalization of …