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Common Client Issues in Counselling: An Australian Perspective

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): Nathan Beel, Christine Chinchen, Tanya Machin, Carol du Plessis

Editor(s): Nathan Beel, Christine Chinchen, Tanya Machin, Carol du Plessis

Subject(s): Social counselling and advice services, Psychology

Institution(s): University of Southern Queensland

Publisher: University of Southern Queensland

Publication date: 2023-03-10

Last updated: 2024-03-13

Common Client Issues in Counselling: An Australian Perspective focuses on common mental health issues, such as grief and loss, anxiety, and depression, experienced by clients presenting for counselling. The focus throughout is on providing an Australian perspective, highlighting contemporary understandings, as well as suggesting practical and integrative responses to each common issue. All of the authors, reviewers, and editors work within Australian counselling settings, including private practice, not for profit organisations and academic contexts. By drawing on the authors’ extensive experience, and using a contextual rather than diagnostic approach, each chapter is brought to life with valuable insights and suggestions.

Co-creating Multimodal Texts with Young Children

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)  1 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Naomi Alberti, Jamie Howell, Jayson Mullins, Julie Turner, Kara Tew, Kerry Chant, Kylie Taylor, Kylie Saunders, Louise Olsen, Melissa Meyer, Novi Ong, Rhiannon Davis, Sheridan Hill, Sophie Woodward

Editor(s): Eseta Tualaulelei, Yosheen Pillay

Subject(s): Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy

Institution(s): University of Southern Queensland

Publisher: University of Southern Queensland

Publication date: 2023-03-27

Last updated: 2024-03-13

This book is about co-creating multimodal texts with young children up to 8 years of age. The authors of each chapter reflect upon their journey in being an active adult collaborator with a child to create a digital text. Each chapter highlights the authors’ planning, decision-making and literacy teaching strategies they employed to help the child they worked with achieve their creative, meaning-making goals. You’ll also find insights from the authors about what worked well in this activity, what should be avoided and how to make the experience successful and enjoyable.

Wellbeing in Educational Contexts - Second edition

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): Dr Susan Carter, Cecily Andersen

Subject(s): Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy

Institution(s): University of Southern Queensland

Publisher: University of Southern Queensland

Publication date: 2023-02-23

Last updated: 2024-03-13

This text endeavours to focus on wellbeing promotion in educational contexts as schools and other educational contexts play a pivotal role in teaching students about nonviolence, promoting understanding of diversity, endowing people with a shared purpose and meaning and the skills and behaviours to create a more inclusive, healthy, and positive future.

Lost Without It

CC BY-SA (Attribution ShareAlike)  7 H5P Activities    English (United Kingdom)

Author(s): Chris McAlister

Editor(s): Deborah King

Subject(s): Surveying, quantity surveying

Institution(s): University of Southern Queensland

Publisher: University of Southern Queensland

Publication date: 2023-09-07

Last updated: 2024-03-13

The navigation that we get from GPS is just a tiny component of how it impacts our lives - from banking to mapping to just knowing where stuff is, it's now a critical part of how humanity functions. This book takes you through all the basics of how GPS works, kind of like a how-to, just in case zombies take out all those smart scientists that keep it all running!

Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology

CC BY-SA (Attribution ShareAlike)  583 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Anna Chruścik, Kate Kauter, Louisa Windus, Eliza Whiteside

Subject(s): Anatomy, Physiology

Institution(s): University of Southern Queensland

Publisher: University of Southern Queensland

Publication date: 2021-02-19

Last updated: 2024-03-13

Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology is a textbook for biomedical, life science and health majors. The book is organised by body system and contains interactive resources to test your knowledge.

USQ Library Stories of 2020

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)  4 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): University of Southern Queensland Library

Subject(s): Library and information services

Publisher: USQ Library

Last updated: 2024-03-13

This publication gives an account of University of Southern Queensland (USQ) Library’s services, activities and associated impacts during 2020. Library staff share their stories of achievements and milestones, our challenges, and experiences in contributing to the outcomes of the University’s strategic goals. These narratives also demonstrate the knowledge and information infrastructures by which we enable student achievement and success, and research excellence.

Statistics for Research Students

CC BY (Attribution)  10 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Erich C. Fein, John Gilmour, Tanya Machin, Liam Hendry

Subject(s): Social research and statistics

Institution(s): University of Southern Queensland

Publisher: University of Southern Queensland

Publication date: 2022-06-16

Last updated: 2024-03-13

This book aims to help you understand and navigate statistical concepts and the main types of statistical analyses essential for research students. 

UniSQ Library Stories of 2022

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)  10 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): University of Southern Queensland Library, Emilia Bell, Rowena McGregor, Nikki Andersen, Stephanie Piper, Kate Derrington, Tahnya Bella, Marjorie Jeffers, Leonie Sherwin, Dr Tricia Kelly, Margaret Bremner, Douglas Eacersall, Adrian Stagg, Ben Ingram, Teaki Page, Ryan Heuser, Kacie Fahey, Carlie Waters, Michelle Fisher, Elizabeth Firman, Tahnee Pearse, Fiona Salisbury

Editor(s): Emilia Bell, Rebecca Randall

Subject(s): Library and information services

Publisher: University of Southern Queensland

Publication date: 2022-10-12

Last updated: 2024-03-13

How has the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) Library helped contribute to a more inclusive, sustainable, and equitable future?  In this second volume of UniSQ Library Stories, staff and students share stories on how the Library's services, programs, and outcomes align with the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Developing Human Services Practitioners: Scaffolding Student Learning in Professional Placements

CC BY (Attribution)  30 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): University of Southern Queensland

Subject(s): Social work

Publisher: University of Southern Queensland

Publication date: 2022-04-20

Last updated: 2024-03-13

This e-resource is aimed at guiding and supporting human services students through their placements.

How To Do Science

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)  37 H5P Activities    English (United Kingdom)

Author(s): Louise Lexis, Brianna Julien

Subject(s): Physiology, Science: general issues

Institution(s): University of Southern Queensland, La Trobe University

Publisher: University of Southern Queensland

Publication date: 2022-06-16

Last updated: 2024-03-13

How To Do Science has been written for students of the life sciences who are actively engaged in the scientific process. This guide introduces you to what it means to be a scientist. You will learn about the scientific method and how to carry out many tasks of a scientist, including:
• designing experiments to test a hypothesis
• performing simple statistics
• visualising data by creating graphs and tables
• accessing scientific literature, and using referencing software
• communicating findings from original investigations through research papers, posters and oral presentations
• writing literature reviews and summaries
• communicating science to the non-expert audience