This value pack contains Understanding Human Development Second Edition and Skills for Human Service Practice Second Edition.   Understanding Human Development is an essential introduction to the core theoretical understandings of human behaviour. This engaging text demonstrates how individual, contextual and time dimensions interact to influence human adaptation and coping across the lifespan. Its multidimensional approach provides your students with valuable insights into the key concepts necessary for understanding the complexities of human behaviour and development. Skills for Human Service Practice: Working with Individuals, Groups and Communities, Second Edition covers all the skills and theoretical frameworks that beginning practitioners and students in Human Services need. It encourages a critical reflective perspective to help students to mindfully reflect on their practice, in order to help them deal with the frustrations and difficulties that they will encounter in their practice. It lays out the theory and framework and then looks at specific skill sets in light of the frameworks and theories mentioned in the first half of the book. The two new chapters, Research skills for Practitioners and Becoming and Being a Professional Practitioner, extend the students and help them make the transition from learning to practice.   For more information on each of these titles, including the table of contents please see their individual pages: Understanding Human Development Skills for Human Service Practice