"Helping Students with Study Problems is written for academic staff, counsellors, personal tutors and anyone involved in helping individual students overcome academic challenges and problems. It examines the experience of 'getting stuck' academically and how students can be helped. It demystifies the process of helping undergraduates with work problems by translating theory and practice into accessible language. Moira Peelo's own practice is in a university counselling service, and she has developed ways of working which borrow from counselling theory and educational research as well as drawing on her own research into students' experience of degree-level education." "She takes account of the wider social setting of universities and their impact on students' work and study problems. Universities are societies with their own hidden rules and sub-groups into which students must fit if they are to succeed academically. Students also bring to study all their prior experience, their expectations and hopes, and all these have an effect on learning. Theoretically, therefore, this book is based on the recognition that adults' learning and academic development come from emotional as well as intellectual growth."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved