.. and teachers, parents and carers worry that the decisions that children and young people make might be unwise or dangerous.

Decision making is a skill involving both a cognitive and an affective process. The ability to:

"recognize the thoughts and feelings;

"consider the consequences;

"choose the best outcome;

is a highly valued facility leading to resilience, achievement and responsibility. The skill can be taught and in these three volumes...

Born in Trefechan, Aberystwyth in 1932, Herbert Williams is one of Wales s most celebrated and distinguished writers. In this engaging book part biography, part critical reader Phil Carradice leads readers on an extended tour of Williams s prolific career, touching on Williams s motivations for writing and assessing the literary significance of his numerous works of biography, fiction, poetry, and history. What results is not just the tale of one man s struggle to express his emotions through his writing but also a revealing inquiry into how and why writers write."