* Discusses the concept, issues and reasons of homelessness in India * Useful aid for mental health professionals, policy-makers, and both undergraduate and postgraduate students in the field of social sciences* Useful for departments of South Asian studies in the U.K. and U.S. related to mental health, practitioners and policy makers

This cutting-edge volume explores how technological tools can be designed, engineered and implemented to assess and support individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders from diagnosis through to rehabilitation. Tanu Wadhera and Deepti Kakkar and their expert contributors focus on technological tools as equalizers in Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) at every stage, the importance of demand-specific design, and how we can best engineer and deploy both invasive and non-invasive individual-centered approaches that support and connect individuals. Considering the perspectives of patients, clinicians and technologists, it explores key topics including design and evaluation of platforms for tech-tools, automated diagnosis, brain imaging techniques, tech-diagnostic frameworks with AI and machine learning, sensing technology, smart brain prosthetics, gamification, alternative communication devices, and education tools and interactive toys. Outlining future challenges for research, Enabling Technology for Neurodevelopmental Disorders is useful for scholars and professionals in psychology, technology, engineering and medicine concerned with design, development and evaluation of a range of assistive technological tools.

This book is a key edition to the Working With... series. It contains practical information in an accessible format for speech and language therapists to draw on in this subject area. It draws on evidence based models/approaches well recognised in the field of Speech and Language therapy and specialist teaching, in a comprehensive way.

* Brings together career myths/facts implemented in career counseling and education into one comprehensive resource * Presents leading-edge, empirically based facts to ease career fears in a way readers can understand and professionals can trust * Harnesses the power of positive thinking with concrete action steps for successful career development * Offers a workbook format with guided activities and response prompts, ideal for career counseling, self-study, or as a course text

- first volume to address the philosophical and psychological parameters of Critical Theory in psychoanalysis - broad market potential, namely academics and scholars in a variety of disciplines with interdisciplinary interests i.e. philosophers, psychoanalysts, political scientists, cultural theorists, sociologists, psychologists, religious studies

Accessibly written. Presents a critique of the heteronormativity of psychoanalysis. Includes Freudian and Lacanian perspectives.

* The book is built around an original method created by the authors for psychologists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts; * The writing style makes the book accessible for a wide readership, and offers an overview of pre- and perinatal psychology in context; * Offering a novel way for expectant mothers to connect with their babies, the book also includes first-hand testimonial interviews with mothers;

Arts Therapies in the Treatment of Depression is a comprehensive compilation of expert knowledge on arts therapies' potential in successfully addressing depression. The book identifies ways of addressing the condition in therapy sessions, shares experience of tools and approaches which seem to work best and guides towards a conscious and confident evidence-based practice. Including contributions from international experts in the field of arts therapies, the book presents some of the most recent, high-profile and methodologically diverse research, whether in the form of clinical trials, surveys or case studies. The three sections of this volume correspond to particular life stages and explore major topics in arts therapies practice and the nature of depression in children, adults and in later life. Individual chapters within the three sections represent all four arts therapies disciplines. The book hopes to improve existing arts therapies practice and research, by encouraging researchers to use creativity in designing meaningful research projects and empowering practitioners to use evidence creatively for the benefit of their clients and the discipline. Arts Therapies in the Treatment of Depression is an essential resource for arts therapies researchers, practitioners and arts therapists in training. It should also be of interest to other health researchers and health professionals, particularly those who work with clients experiencing depression and in multidisciplinary teams.

Assessors can adopt all, or choose phases/techniques of TA-C to integrate into their assessment practice. Worksheets and appendices are included to provide the reader with practice materials.

Preventing Harmful Behaviour in Online Communities explores the ethics and logistics of censoring problematic communications online that might encourage a person to engage in harmful behaviour. Using an approach based on theories of digital rhetoric and close primary source analysis, Zoe Alderton draws on group dynamics research in relation to the way in which some online communities foster negative and destructive ideas, encouraging community members to engage in practices including self-harm, disordered eating, and suicide. This book offers insight into the dangerous gap between the clinical community and caregivers versus the pro-anorexia and pro-self-harm communities - allowing caregivers or medical professionals to understand hidden online communities young people in their care may be part of. It delves into the often-unanticipated needs of those who band together to resist the healthcare community, suggesting practical ways to address their concerns and encourage healing. Chapters investigate the alarming ease with which ideas of self-harm can infect people through personal contact, community unease, or even fiction and song and the potential of the internet to transmit self-harmful ideas across countries and even periods of time. The book also outlines the real nature of harm-based communities online, examining both their appeal and dangers, while also examining self-censorship and intervention methods for dealing with harmful content online. Rather than pointing to punishment or censorship as best practice, the book offers constructive guidelines that outline a more holistic approach based on the validity of expressing negative mood and the creation of safe peer support networks, making it ideal reading for professionals protecting vulnerable people, as well as students and academics in psychology, mental health, and social care.

Contents:
Foreword: Alan S. Gurman, Ushering in a New Era. Preface: Thomas L. Sexton, Gerald Weekes, Michael S. Robbins, A New Era of Couple and Family Therapy. Part 1: Understanding Families and Couples: The Foundations of Practice. Dorothy S. Becvar, Eras of Epistemology: A Survery of Family Therapy. Michael S. Robbins, Carla C. Mayorga, Jose Szapocznik, The Wcosystem "lens" to Understanding Family Functioning. Celia Jaes Falicov, Ethnicity and Culture in Family Therapy: New Variations on a Fundamental Theme. Part 2: Major Theoretical Models of Couple and Family Therapy. Jill Scharff, Object-relations and Psychodynamic Approaches to Couple and Family Therapy. William C. Nichols, Family of Origin Treatment. Barry L. Duncan, Scott D. Miller, Jacqueline A. Sparks, International Solution Focused Brief Therapies: Evolving Concepts of Change. Harlene Anderson, Postmodern Social Construction Therapies. Frank M. Dattilio, Cognitive-behavioral Couple and Family Therapy. Victoria Behar Mitrani, Structural-Strategic Approaches to Couple and Family Therapy. Jay Lebow, Integrative Approaches to Couple and Family Therapy. Part 3: Evidence Based Couple and Family Intervention Programs. Thomas L. Sexton, Michael S. Robbins, Amy S. Hollimon, Alyson L. Mease, Carla C. Mayorga, Efficacy, Effectiveness, and Change Mechanisms in Couple and Family Therapy. Susan Johnson, Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy: Empiricism and Art. David Atkins, Sona Dimidjian, Andrew Christesen, Behavioral Couple Therapy: Past Present and Future. Scott Henggler, Sonja K. Schoenwald, Multisystemic Therapy. Thomas L. Sexton, James F. Alexander, Functional Family Therapy: A Mature Clinical Model for Working with At-risk Adolescents and Their Families. Part 4: Special Applications/Special Populations. S. Michael Plaut, Karen Donahey, Evaluation and Treatment of Sexual Dysfunction. Nancy Breen Ruddy, Susan McDaniel, Medical Family Therapy. Timothy J. Ozechowski, Holly Waldron, The Treatment of Adolescent Conduct Disorders and Drug Abuse. Luciano L'Abate, Treatment through Writing. Rita DeMaria, Psychoeducation and Enrichment: Clinincal Considerations for Couple and Family Therapy. Part 5: The Future of Couple and Family Therapy. Thomas L. Sexton, Gerald R. Weeks, Michael S. Robbins, The Future of Couple and Family Therapy.

Taking a deep dive into contemporary Western culture, this book suggests we are all fundamentally ambivalent beings. A great deal has been written about how to love - to be kinder, more empathic, a better person, and so on. But trying to love without dealing with our ambivalence, with our hatred, is often a recipe for failure. Any attempt, therefore, to love our neighbour as ourselves - or even, for that matter, to love ourselves - must recognise that we love where we hate and we hate where we love. Psychoanalysis, beginning with Freud, has claimed that to be in two minds about something or someone is characteristic of human subjectivity. Owens and Swales trace the concept of ambivalence through its various iterations in Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis in order to question how the contemporary subject deals with its ambivalence. They argue that experiences of ambivalence are, in present-day cultural life, increasingly excised or foreclosed, and that this foreclosure has symptomatic effects at the individual as well as social level. Owens and Swales examine ambivalence as it is at work in mourning, in matters of sexuality, and in our enjoyment under neoliberalism and capitalism. Above all, the authors consider how today's ambivalent subject relates to the racially, religiously, culturally, or sexually different neighbour as a result of the current societal dictate of complete tolerance of the other. In this vein, Owens and Swales argue that ambivalence about one's own jouissance is at the very roots of xenophobia. Peppered with relevant and stimulating examples from clinical work, film, television, politics, and everyday life, Psychoanalysing Ambivalence breathes new life into an old concept and will appeal to any reader, academic, or clinician with an interest in psychoanalytic ideas.

Schizophrenia is a widely investigated psychiatric condition, and though there have been claims of gene "associations," decades of molecular genetic studies have failed to produce confirmed causative genes. In this book, Joseph focuses on the methodological shortcomings of schizophrenia genetic research. His findings have major implications not only on how we understand the causes of schizophrenia and other psychiatric conditions, but also on how we understand the causes of human behavior in general. Chapters explore the differing theoretical concepts of schizophrenia, molecular genetic research around schizophrenia, family, twin, and adoption studies, and non-medical prevention and intervention strategies. Prominent researchers and studies in the field are discussed and critiqued comprehensively throughout. This book is essential reading for psychiatrists, psychologists, behavioral scientists, and anyone interested in the causes of human behavior.

* This is the first book that discusses the medically ill baby's embodied experience, manifest in the child's behaviors and the family dynamics from the perspective of nonverbal interactional and relational experiences * Dr. Suzi Tortora is a Laban nonverbal movement analyst and dance/movement therapist who has pioneered dance/movement therapy with infants, young children and families, and Dr. Miri Keren, a clinical assistant professor of child and adolescent psychiatry, Tel-Aviv University Sackler Medical School, is one of the co-authors of the newly revised DC- 0 - 5 (TM): Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood * This book fills this gap in the literature bringing a variety of fields together including infant mental health; infant and child psychiatry; nonverbal movement analysis; and the creative arts therapies

An engaging account of the science of dreaming. Written by a leading sleep researcher and a professional dream artist. Makes the biological, psychological, personal, and cultural causes of dreaming accessible. Surveys current theories of the function and meaning (or lack thereof) of dreams. Covers all current scientific work on dreaming, from what happens in the brain when we dream to how dream content relates to our waking life experiences * Each chapter tackles a different type of dream, illustrated through a scientific overview and a professional colour painting

Writers at War addresses the most immediate representations of the First World War in the prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden; it interrogates the various ways in which these writers contended with conveying their war experience from the temporal and spatial proximity of the warzone and investigates the multifarious impact of the war on the (re)development of their aesthetics. It also interrogates to what extent these texts aligned with or challenged existing social, cultural, philosophical and aesthetic norms. While this book is concerned with literary technique, the rich existing scholarship on questions of gender, trauma and cultural studies on World War I literature serves as a foundation. This book does not oppose these perspectives but offers a complementary approach based on close critical reading. The distinctiveness of this study stems from its focus on the question of representation and form and on the specific role of the war in the four authors' literary careers. This is the first scholarly work concerned exclusively with theorising prose written from the immediacy of the war. This book is intended for academics, researchers, PhD candidates, postgraduates and anyone interested in war literature.

The Adult Attachment Project Picture System (AAP) has served as a prominent assessment tool for adults and adolescents internationally for over 20 years. This book introduces the AAP and illustrates the powerful potential for implementing the AAP in clinical practice for assessment, client conceptualization, treatment planning, analysis, and as a therapeutic guide. Chapters discuss the full scope of incomplete pathological mourning for attachment trauma, including for the first time in the field Failure to Mourn and Preoccupation with Personal Suffering. Seasoned clinical researchers and psychotherapists provide a snapshot of their clients' unique attachment characteristics and defensive exclusion strategies as assessed by the AAP, and discuss how to use this information in treatment, as well as how to present the AAP results to their clients. This book introduces readers to how the AAP can be used with adolescents, adults, and couples, and in custody evaluation and foster care.

This book is the only psychotherapy text that: * maps out a core process of profound unlearning, confirmed in neuroscience research, that is shared across all types of psychotherapy that produce transformational change, for a remarkable unification of the panoply of therapy systems * guides each therapist's use of her or his preferred techniques for more consistently achieving transformational change-the complete, permanent elimination of symptoms and their underlying emotional schemas and mental models * provides two dozen detailed case examples showing that the core process is effective for a vast range of the severe, longstanding problems and symptoms presented by therapy seekers, including complex trauma, depression, panic attacks, shame, insecure attachment, compulsive behaviors, and many others

Uniquely intimate depiction of psychoanalytic work and experiences during the COVID 19 pandemic. Two authors share personal experiences, including working through the pandemic with clients who have their mental health impacted and also contracting the virus from frontline work.

Children Recovering from Complex Trauma: From Wound to Scar draws on the latest knowledge and research on complex trauma in children, as well as the authors' expertise, in order to outline a trauma-sensitive approach to these children and their parents. The first part of the book describes the emotional and relational dynamics underlying these children's behaviour. The second part of the book offers a glimpse behind the scenes of the authors' psychotherapy practice, elaborating the processes of change and growth that can enable developmental recovery 'from wound to scar' in children who have experienced complex trauma. As such, the book aims to 'demystify' what psychotherapy with a traumatised child may look like, as well as offer insights and tools which can support carers in their daily interactions with these children. This book will be of great use to the adoptive parents and foster carers of children who have experienced complex trauma, and the care professionals (e.g., teachers, foster care workers) who work with them.

A celebration of an important figure in 20th century British psychoanalysis Includes contributions from leading analysts, as well as reflections from Milner's own patients Examines Milner's work in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, mindfulness and art therapy

Comprehensive guide to understanding loss in psychoanalysis * Includes information on the key theorists in psychoanalysis * Suitable for analysts and therapists in practice and in training

International contributors provide insight into Freud's last book. Discusses themes including tradition, anti-Semitism, historical truth and memory. Each author elaborates a contemporary perspective of elements in Freud's volume.

The contributions cover key areas of discussion including the political and the social, diversity and difference, gender and norm, and isolation and the social sphere. Includes several chapters on post-pandemic contexts, e.g. internet work and social isolation. Includes examples from the authors' own work, for example case studies of group analysis in specific contexts.

This book represents both a milestone and a celebration. It brings together in one place all the theories and models that have emerged from the work of David Clutterbuck, one of the last surviving, first pioneers of coaching and mentoring, who has significantly helped to shape the field; and is published as his 75th book at age 75. Many of the models and approaches familiar to coaches and mentors are based in David's prolific research, writing and practice, from Systemic Talent Management, through Team Coaching from a Complex, Adaptive Systems perspective, Personal Reflective Space, to the Diversity Awareness Ladder. In bringing more than 60 of these innovations into one volume, the book provides an invaluable contribution to the practice of coaching, and puts the evolution of coaching theory into context, tracing its development over time. This book is a one-stop-shop for coach practitioners and students to get up to speed and understand these foundational models. This book will appeal to coaches and HR professionals across the world, at all levels.