This book covers the consequences of death for patients and families, including grief and health. It offers a health promotion perspective on palliative care for patients, families, and care workers, stressing the importance of fulfilling patient wishes.
Hollywood’s (m)Other Aperture
Blockbusters like *Avatar* and *Annihilation* mine our prelingual origins. This book reveals how their primal imagery reshapes our understanding of femininity, maternal authority, queer identity, and the bonds between human and nonhuman.
Human Characteristics
What special behaviours, social practices, and psychological structures make us human? Uniting evolution, psychology, and cognitive science, these studies explore cognition, sociality, and sexuality to provoke debate and stimulate new research.
Human Development II
This title offers an overview of a wide range of contemporary issues in education and society, including emotional intelligence, family, and personal development, and represents a useful manual for students and the general public interested in the social sciences.
Teachers have expressed a lack of training in how to manage student aggression. This book improves understanding of antisocial orientation by examining its causes and treatments, and concludes with classroom strategies and school modifications to foster a prosocial orientation.
Inclusive Hospitality in Online Learning
Inclusive hospitality counters the impersonal nature of online learning by creating a welcoming, safe, and engaging environment. This book provides a path and tools for faculty to welcome and instruct students in a powerful, transformative manner, valuing them as individuals.
This book develops an integrative view of individuality by combining it with the systems of intelligence and creativity. It unifies key theories, revealing a new understanding of the integral individual.
Induced Affect in Psychotherapy and Stress Management Training
For mental health practitioners, this book describes induced affect, a clinical procedure to counter emotional avoidance and build regulation skills. It provides step-by-step instructions, transcripts, and a stress management program to enhance emotional resilience.
Infinity in Language
This book explores one of the most fascinating problems of the human mind: how the experience of infinity is expressed in language. Using cognitive semantics and poetics, it develops a model of the rhetoric of the sublime to answer how we present the unpresentable.
This book shows why control and happenstance are crucial to methodology and statistics. Control reduces ambiguity, while tests of statistical significance rule out happenstance as an explanation for research results, demonstrating that research impartiality is possible.
Intentional Parenting
This book offers a multi-cultural, global perspective on parenting. It combines cultural wisdom with the latest scientific research to guide you in raising a healthy child through every stage, from connecting with an infant to communicating with an adolescent.
This book presents studies on the influence of childhood abuse on adult functioning, including various symptoms, problems, and personality and neurobiological disorders. It also contains psychotherapeutic issues connected with interpersonal trauma.
Intersecting Identities and Interculturality
This volume adopts a fluid approach to identity, exploring its development in intercultural contexts. With international contributions from diverse fields, it provides empirical research into identification processes for scholars, students, and all interested in diversity.
Islands of the Mind
Islands are both open communities and enclosed worlds, points of arrival and departure. This collection explores the psychology they shape, the literature they inspire, and the urgent ecological questions they pose in our increasingly globalised world.
Western civilization endures three seminal, tragic father-son stories. This book explores a fourth, softer myth: that of Jacob and Joseph. In this alternative path, the son, chosen by his father, unites a tribe and furthers his father’s dreams, and neither is destroyed.
Learning and Long-Term Illness
Nearly 40 years after it was written, Susan Sapsed’s diary was rediscovered. It told a story of personal illness, practitioner misunderstanding, and patient frustration. Using psychoanalytic frameworks, this book invites a mature Susan to reflect on her younger self.
Learning Disabilities
While smart, many students with learning disabilities don’t know how to learn. This book examines evaluation procedures and intervention programs that recognize student strengths and address their needs, providing guidance for educators and building their capacity to help.
Media Space and Gender Construction
This innovative book explores the relationship between geography and gender from an Indian perspective. It examines how Media Space—a virtual place for ideas and images—is used to construct gender stereotypes through visual media like soap operas.
Mindreading in the Classroom
This book explores how educators can teach young people to understand the minds of others, helping them navigate identity and relationships. Based on cutting-edge social neuroscience, it translates research into practical, culturally-informed strategies for educational practice.
Modernist Group Dynamics
Modernist scholarship has moved beyond solitary figures to the group formations that fostered these movements. The essays in Modernist Group Dynamics explore how artists worked in concert and conflict, reconsidering well-known figures and recovering groups worldwide.