NURSING
Becoming a Nurse
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Becoming a Nurse
- Equips student nurses with the core knowledge and skills necessary for their undergraduate program and clinical placement.
- Covers key topics in nursing including the Australian healthcare system, communication technologies, leadership and evidence-based practice.
- Rich with features to support student learning and competency development.
NURSING
Transition to Nursing Practice
Transition to Nursing Practice
- Provides a comprehensive introduction into the nursing profession and the capabilities students need for practice.
- Takes an evidence-based approach to understanding workplace readiness of graduate nurses.
- Includes case studies and activities to develop students understanding of the nursing profession and practical worksheets to help students build a career-ready portfolio.
HEALTH SCIENCES
Social Determinants of Health
Social Determinants of Health
- Introduces various topics related to health and well-being in the context of a conceptual framework of determinants of health.
- Provides an understanding of the causes of health, rather than just the effects of health status in society.
- Contains free-standing chapters all linked through the framework of social determinants of health.
NURSING
Mental Health Nursing
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Mental Health Nursing
- Equips students with the skills they need to support those experiencing mental illness.
- Demonstrates how to apply assessment processes to treat practice, work with consumers with a range of disorders, and apply nursing convention strategies in order to achieve best practice outcomes.
HEALTH SCIENCES/PSYCHOLOGY
Health and Human Behaviour
>Health and Human Behaviour
- Accessible introduction to the different models and new ways of thinking around health, approaching health from a whole-human perspective.
- Extensively revised to reflect latest research and address current areas influencing wellbeing, such as spirituality, mindfulness and COVID-19.
- Includes resources to enhance students' learning, such as web links to further resources and multiple choice questions on key topics.
HEALTH SCIENCES
The Australian Health Care System
The Australian Health Care System
- A compelling and updated analysis how the inputs of Australian health services impact the outcomes on individuals, communities and policies.
- Discussion and critique of recent events and their impact on the health care system, such as the increased use of digital technologies due to COVID-19 and Royal Commission outcomes.
- Includes a variety of student-facing resources to nurture comprehension of topics and frameworks.
NURSING/SOCIAL WORK AND HUMAN SERVICES
Healthy Ageing and Aged Care
Healthy Ageing and Aged Care
- Offers a new way of thinking about ageing, utilising a person-centred approach based on stories and experiences of older people.
- Highlights issues students may encounter in practice, including COVID-19 impacts and relevant Royal Commission outcomes.
- Includes high quality resources to enhance students' learning: bespoke video case studies, audio podcasts and further annotated resources.
HEALTH SCIENCES/SOCIAL WORK AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Professionals and Indigenous Health
Health Professionals and Indigenous Health
- Presents a strengths-based focus to help students and practitioners build their knowledge to ensure better health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
- Emphasising research-based Indigenous perspectives, this book provides a culturally safe framework.
- Critical reflection questions encourage discussion of key concepts, allowing students to explore themes using a new or refocused lens.
HEALTH SCIENCES/SOCIAL WORK AND HUMAN SERVICES
Modern Social Work Theory
Modern Social Work Theory
- A comprehensive and critical overview of the main Social Work practice theories that students will use throughout their course and careers
- The new edition has been enhanced with updated industry research, topics and frameworks for ethical practice
- Learning resources available with the text include review questions and student study notes to encourage student success
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Understanding Health
Understanding Health
- Introduces foundational knowledge for a broad range of contemporary health subjects.
- Explains the various factors that influence health, and what we can do as a society to improve people’s health and wellbeing.
- Nine new chapters address the most relevant and important challenges for, and changes in, public health.
STUDY SKILLS AND RESEARCH METHODS / HEALTH SCIENCES / SOCIAL WORK AND HUMAN SERVICES
Research Methods and Evidence-based Practice
Research Methods and Evidence-based Practice
- Introduces students to various research techniques they can use throughout their degree and into a range of health settings.
- Teaches qualitative and quantitative research methods of finding evidence to help students make informed decisions in their practice and for their clients.
- Five new chapters highlight the increasing importance of evidence-based practice.
SOCIAL WORK AND HUMAN SERVICES
Understanding Human Development
Understanding Human Development
- Provides students with the core theoretical understandings of human development and behaviour
- Introduces students to the ideas and research that will likely inform key debates, controversies and implications for practice
- Includes a unique section devoted to trauma and loss.
SOCIAL WORK AND HUMAN SERVICES
Social Policy in Australia
Social Policy in Australia
- Introduces the concept of social policy and its influence on the nature of our society and the lives of individual Australians
- Examines the purpose and meaning of social policy, how it has operated in the past, how it operates now, and the social policy challenges for the future
- Considers recent developments in social policy including health, climate change, education, and immigration.
SOCIAL WORK AND HUMAN SERVICES / HEALTH SCIENCES
Mental Health and Collaborative Community Practice
Mental Health and Collaborative Community Practice
- Comprehensive reference on the state of mental health and mental health care in Australia and internationally
- Provides the latest information on descriptions of the disorders, policy, and treatments for mental illness
- New examples of mental health disorders and treatment in practice including personal stories of people with a mental illness and their experience of mental health care.
NURSING / HEALTH SCIENCES / SOCIAL WORK AND HUMAN SERVICES
Professional and Therapeutic Communication
Professional and Therapeutic Communication
- Provides students with a comprehensive understanding of communication as they enter complex and diverse multidisciplinary healthcare environments.
- Includes rich pedagogical features to support student learning.
- New and updated chapters promote skill development with an emphasis on self-care, theories and skills, and reflection and clinical supervision.
HEALTH SCIENCES
Food, Nutrition and Health
Food, Nutrition and Health
- Introduces important areas of Indigenous food security, social connections with food, and aspects of food science.
- Includes extended coverage of nutrition, society and the human lifecycle.
- Engages students with Cases and Research at Work to provide real-life examples that expand on the themes being explored in the chapter.
HEALTH SCIENCES
Governing for Health
Governing for Health
- An ideal text for students and courses in health equity, public health, and social science.
- A timely, thoroughly researched case for policy and governance centered on public health.
- Includes innovative "well-being manifesto" — a guide for politicians who want to govern for health and equity.
HEALTH SCIENCES
The New Public Health
The New Public Health
- Reflects the recent developments in public health theory, practice and methodologies.
- Covers a broad scope of the new public health visions, and the challenges that confront the health sector, public health, and other areas that will continue to shape our health now, and in the future.
HEALTH SCIENCES
Ethics for Health Care
Ethics for Health Care
- Encourages students to develop their skills in ethical reasoning.
- Shows techniques for dealing effectively with contemporary ethics issues faced by professionals in the everyday health care setting.
- Takes students through the process of training to work in health care, to meeting a patient, and contributing to that person’s care.
HEALTH SCIENCES
Second Opinion
Second Opinion
- Introduces students to the theories, concepts, issues and contexts of health sociology.
- Includes comprehensive online resources with innovative teaching and learning materials.
- Supports student learning and development through Chapter introductory vignettes, Pause and Reflect questions, and up-to-date documentaries and films that relate to chapter themes.
HEALTH SCIENCES
Understanding Health Promotion
Understanding Health Promotion
- Draws on the authors’ research to focus on strategic approaches to health promotion practice.
- Helpful ‘Guidebooks’ are integrated throughout and contain practical information about the many resources available to health promotion practitioners.
- Case studies and suggested models for practice are used to support a skills-development focus.
HEALTH SCIENCES
Health, Illness and Well-being
Health, Illness and Well-being
- Introduces students to some of the important ideas that underlie the field of public health today.
- Shows the forces and trends that combine to shape the health of individuals, communities, and populations.
- Rich pedagogical features including ‘Mythbusters’ to counteract misconceptions and encourage students to question preconceived notions.
HEALTH SCIENCES
Communications Across the Lifespan
Communications Across the Lifespan
- Prepare students entering health, disability and related fields to engage effectively with people of all ages and life experiences.
- Covers health and wellness issues from the perspective of patients and professionals.
- Supports student learning with key terms, reflection points, review questions and case studies illustrate theory to practice.
HEALTH SCIENCES
Clinical and Fieldwork Placement in the Health Professions
Clinical and Fieldwork Placement in the Health Professions
- Covers broader issues such as getting ready for placement, students role, rights and responsibilities, supervision, assessment and working in teams.
- Provides information on a variety of clinical fieldwork placement settings, and how to prepare for each.
HEALTH SCIENCES
Youth Health and Welfare
Youth Health and Welfare
- Offers new perspectives on the contemporary health issues of young people.
- Explores ways in which young people seek to manage their wellbeing and outlines new practices and ideas for professional development.
- Draws on research from a variety of Australian and international sources.
NURSING / HEALTH SCIENCES
Indigenous Australians and Health
Indigenous Australians and Health
- Assists students to appreciate and understand the importance of ‘getting it right’ when working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians in urban and remote areas.
- Outlines fundamental and underlying components that continue to influence good health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
NURSING / HEALTH SCIENCES
Population Health, Communities and Health Promotion
Population Health, Communities and Health Promotion
- This text covers community health, population health and health promotion.
- Covers the process of assessing the health needs of a community and how to plan, implement and evaluate a health promotion project for a particular group.
- Features case studies and examples from communities in developing and developed countries.
NURSING / HEALTH SCIENCES
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' Health and Wellbeing
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' Health and Wellbeing
- Written by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander author and a non-Indigenous author, representing interprofessional collaboration.
- Addresses the need to reorient mainstream health to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ ways.
- Includes videos highlighting personal experiences within the healthcare sector.
NURSING / HEALTH SCIENCES / SOCIAL WORK AND HUMAN SERVICES
Integrating Law, Ethics and Regulation
Integrating Law, Ethics and Regulation
- A comprehensive analysis of relevant law, ethics, and regulation for allied health and nursing students.
- Enables students to appreciate the importance of, and to gain skills in, recognising problematic situations, and taking appropriate action.
- Includes case examples with simple, thought-provoking questions to bring each content area to life.
NURSING
Inclusive Practice for Health Professionals
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Inclusive Practice for Health Professionals
- Equips students with critical knowledge of the social, political and cultural factors that influence health care in Australia.
- Examines the key concepts, influences and strategies of inclusive practice to help students and professionals develop best practice skills for working in complex and diverse healthcare settings.
NURSING
Psychopharmacology
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Psychopharmacology
- Assists nursing and allied health students in their understanding of psychotropic medications.
- Covers treatment monitoring through a range of care plans and interventions and provides strategies for minimising risks.
- Critical thinking exercises related to a particular disorder assist students to consider various pharmacologic care contexts, challenges and practices.
NURSING
Communication for Health Care Practice
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Communication for Health Care Practice
- Equips students with useful communication skills to help them become confident communicators in a professional health care setting.
- Focuses on client-oriented communication strategies that advance client well-being while also developing students’ appreciation of the diversity and complexity of communication in health care organisations.
SOCIAL WORK AND HUMAN SERVICES / HEALTH SCIENCES
Drug Use in Australian Society
Drug Use in Australian Society
- Introduces the history of drug use in Australian society, outlines theoretical perspectives and explores public policy responses to drug use.
- Brings together relevant concepts, theories and practices pertinent to understanding alcohol and other drug use in Australian society.
- Includes new chapters, expanded discussion questions and updated policy and references.
SOCIAL WORK AND HUMAN SERVICES / HEALTH SCIENCES / STUDY SKILLS AND RESEARCH METHODS
Qualitative Research Methods
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Qualitative Research Methods
- Provides an accessible and practical guide to conducting and analysing qualitative data effectively for people-facing professions.
- Introduces students to an updated overview of the research process and helps them navigate through the practical ways of carrying out qualitative research methods.
SOCIAL WORK AND HUMAN SERVICES / HEALTH SCIENCES / STUDY SKILLS AND RESEARCH METHODS
Evidence-based Health Practice
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Evidence-based Health Practice
- Introduces the fundamental research concepts—finding, critiquing, using, and evaluating information—that are essential to professional development and practice in health care settings.
- Reflects current thinking in the field and shows how an evidence-based approach can be used to create best practice methods and achieve desired outcomes.
SOCIAL WORK AND HUMAN SERVICES
Social Work: Fields of Practice
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Social Work: Fields of Practice
- Takes the form of a conversation with students by experts in the field.
- Chapters gradually uncovers many of the fields of practice a social worker is likely to encounter.
- Cover the eight core fields of practice mandatory for students to achieve accreditation.
SOCIAL WORK AND HUMAN SERVICES / HEALTH SCIENCES
Management and Practice in Health and Human Services Organisations
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Management and Practice in Health and Human Services Organisations
- Helps students build a comprehensive foundation of the knowledge, skills, and attributes required for effective service delivery and organisational success.
- Explores innovative strategies for good management and leadership in health and human service organisations.
SOCIAL WORK AND HUMAN SERVICES
Social Work: Contexts and Practice
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Social Work: Contexts and Practice
- A practical introduction to the diverse issues faced by social workers in the field.
- Revised to provide students with the practical skills they need to work in the social work fields of practice.
- New supplementary materials to engage students and further their understanding.
SOCIAL WORK AND HUMAN SERVICES
Community and Human Services
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Community and Human Services
- Introduces students to the key concepts, theories and perspectives of community and human services in Australia.
- Prepares students for practice in a range of helping professions and illustrates the real-life situations they may encounter with clients.
- Equips students with skills in cultural awareness and cultural competence.
SOCIAL WORK AND HUMAN SERVICES
Field Education
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Field Education
- Ensures students of social work field education subjects have access to quality learning experiences.
- Explores what makes a successful placement from four different perspectives—lecturer, field educator, liaison person and student—to better prepare students for the rigours of social work and human services work.
SOCIAL WORK AND HUMAN SERVICES / HEALTH SCIENCES
Working with Human Service Organisations
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Working with Human Service Organisations
- Helps students understand the complexities of organisational life and to advocate for professional values for both their clients and themselves.
- Provides comprehensive coverage of key topics including organisational culture, conflict and ethics.
- Encourages critical reflection through case studies, Stop and Think boxes and Critically Reflective activities in each chapter.
SOCIAL WORK AND HUMAN SERVICES
Integrating Human Service Law, Ethics and Practice
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Integrating Human Service Law, Ethics and Practice
- Introduces students to a unified understanding of the relationship between law, ethics and human practice.
- Includes accessible discussion of the power, impact and prevalence of law in all human service activity, client-related and beyond.
- Fully updated with law and human services material.
SOCIAL WORK AND HUMAN SERVICES
Case Management
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Case Management
- Provides students and practitioners with the essential values, theory, knowledge and skills for excellent practice.
- Addresses the complexity of people’s circumstances and the system of services, and the support required to address these issues.
SOCIAL WORK AND HUMAN SERVICES
Skills for Human Service Practice
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Skills for Human Service Practice
- Covers contemporary practice skills used in social work and other human service professions across a variety of contexts.
- Explores theoretical frameworks and the specific skill sets that relate to these.
- Encourages students to reflect on beliefs, arguments, and claims in practice, research, policy and administration contexts.
SOCIAL WORK AND HUMAN SERVICES
Working with Communities
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Working with Communities
- Examines critical ideas about community work and key concepts of social inclusion, social capital, community participation, community capacity building, and community partnerships.
- Features engaging case studies that highlight the relationship between theory and practice.
PSYCHOLOGY / SOCIAL WORK AND HUMAN SERVICES
Working with People
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Working with People
- Explores the place and challenges of communication, interviewing, and counselling skills within social work and human service practice.
- Engages students with integrated case scenarios so students can see the development of skills and interventions, and the diversity of approaches that that our practice theories provide us with.
PSYCHOLOGY
Ethical Practice in Applied Psychology
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Ethical Practice in Applied Psychology
- Helps prepare Australian students for registration through an exploration of ethical principles, providing the basis for psychological practice.
- Written to align with the Australian Psychological Society’s Code of Ethics and Ethical Guidelines.
- Supports student learning through excellent case examples, key terms, margin notes and questions to consider.
PSYCHOLOGY
Psychotherapy and Counselling
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Psychotherapy and Counselling
- Presents engaging and in-depth case studies that illuminate the private work of psychotherapy and counselling.
- Includes Australian case examples and stories from practitioners, clients and consumers.
- Reflective practice questions and activities in each chapter encourage students to reflect on what they’ve learnt and connect theory to practice.
PSYCHOLOGY
Study and Communication Skills for Psychology
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Study and Communication Skills for Psychology
- Reviews the essential skills a psychology student needs to develop over the course of their undergraduate studies.
- Includes examples and advice to help students master the skills being explored.
- New chapter on critical thinking provides students with practical, step-by-step guidance on getting to grips with this necessary skill.
PSYCHOLOGY
Psychological Testing and Assessment
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Psychological Testing and Assessment
- A comprehensive introduction to theory, research, and best practice for psychological testing and assessment.
- Includes a wider representation of current tests recommended by the Psychology Board of Australia.
- New case examples illustrate controversies and legal cases, showing real-world application of theory.
STUDY SKILLS AND RESEARCH METHODS
Social Research Methods
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Social Research Methods
- A beginner’s guide to Australian and New Zealand social research practices.
- Presents the requisite introductory skills within a framework of exciting, up-to-date, relevant Australian and New Zealand research.
- Supports student learning with new chapters and expands on difficult areas.
STUDY SKILLS AND RESEARCH METHODS
Communication Skills Guidebook
Communication Skills Guidebook
- A concise guidebook that equips students with the essential academic and communication skills they need to succeed at university
- Outlines how to write a good essay, construct a sound argument, and present research findings
- Includes tips and examples including common assignment instructions.
STUDY SKILLS AND RESEARCH METHODS
Essential Academic Skills
Essential Academic Skills
- A step-by-step approach to the core skills of finding sources, reading, writing, listening, speaking and researching within a university context.
- Comprehensive coverage of the essential assessment skills needed for success at university
- Academic language support relevant to all university study and specific for each skill.
STUDY SKILLS AND RESEARCH METHODS
Smart Thinking
Skills for Critical Understanding and Writing
Smart Thinking
- A practical, step-by-step guide to improving skills in analysis, critical thinking, and the effective communication of arguments and explanations
- Provides detailed advice on how to practice better analytical skills and demonstrates how these skills can be used in research and writing
- Emphasises how to develop arguments that are coherent and take account of their audience and context.
STUDY SKILLS AND RESEARCH METHODS
The Research Process
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The Research Process
- A concise and approachable introduction to research
- Guides students through the research process, analysing and demonstrating a variety of research methods
- Assumes no prior knowledge of research and takes a non-statistical, non-mathematical approach.
STUDY SKILLS AND RESEARCH METHODS
Epidemiology
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Epidemiology
- A methodological and practical guide to conducting evidence-based quantitative research in all health sciences.
- Includes tips, key definitions and critical thinking exercises to engage readers with key concepts.
- Case studies provide insight into current Australian and international epidemiological research.
STUDY SKILLS AND RESEARCH METHODS
Social Research Methods
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Social Research Methods
- Unrivalled coverage of both quantitative and qualitative methods.
- Guides students through the whole research process from formulating a research question to writing up their findings.
- Packed full of practical tips and advice to help students undertake their own dissertation and research while avoiding common pitfalls.
STUDY SKILLS AND RESEARCH METHODS
How to do your Social Research Project or Dissertation
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How to do your Social Research Project or Dissertation
- Straight-talking, easy-to-navigate, and reassuring guide to support final-year social science undergraduates.
- Focuses on practical advice to prepare students for the realities of doing a research project.
- Expert advice from real supervisors across the subject disciplines help students to make the most of research supervision.
STUDY SKILLS AND RESEARCH METHODS / NURSING
Research Methods in Nursing and Midwifery
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Research Methods in Nursing and Midwifery
- A clear introduction to the principles used in research and systematic reviews for evidence-based practice.
- Each chapter builds upon knowledge to cover specific research methods, populations, sampling, data collection, and analysis.
- Supports students learning with easy-to-read flowcharts, practical examples and tips, practice exercises and additional resources.
STUDY SKILLS AND RESEARCH METHODS / NURSING
Oxford Dictionary of Nursing
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Oxford Dictionary of Nursing
- Written by medical and nursing specialists.
- Offers more than 10,300 clear and concise entries on the theory and practice of nursing.
- Provides comprehensive coverage of the ever-expanding vocabulary of the nursing professions.
STUDY SKILLS AND RESEARCH METHODS / NURSING
Oxford Minidictionary for Nurses
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Oxford Minidictionary for Nurses
- A pocket-sized dictionary written by medical and nursing specialists.
- Offers more than 10,300 clear and concise entries on the theory and practice of nursing.
- Provides comprehensive coverage of the ever-expanding vocabulary of the nursing professions.
STUDY SKILLS AND RESEARCH METHODS
Communication Research Methods
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Communication Research Methods
- Ideal for research methods courses covering multiple methodologies.
- A research-as-argument approach to help students become effective researchers and more insightful consumers of research.
- Discusses a broad range of traditional and contemporary methods and considering ethics in designing, conducting, and reporting research.
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MAKING THE GRADE, FIFTH EDITION
A guide to successful study and professional communication.
A practical introduction to successful university study and the skills needed to transition to professional practice. It aims to help students across all subjects understand the relevance of their study and build academic skills for lifelong learning.
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SOFT SKILLS FOR GRADUATE EMPLOYABILITY
Discover the soft skills Australian students need most and expert advice on how to teach them.
Now more than ever there is a requirement for students to develop their soft skill competencies alongside the technical skills for career success. This paper reviews the findings from a survey of Australian higher education students on which soft skills they believe to be the most important for future career success.
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