This book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the concepts and practices of professionalism, responsibility, and relationality in the context of deaf education.

Internationally, public attention has been drawn to professional and ethical ruptures and crises in early intervention and education for deaf children. These ruptures and crises both demonstrate a failure in organizations' duty of care and raise new questions regarding professional responsibility and relational ethics in the field of deaf education and more broadly. The chapters investigate the views of teachers of deaf children in the United Kingdom on their roles, specifically in relation to medicalization; offer an ethnographic account and analysis of deaf immigrants' experiences of deaf education settings on the east coast of the United States; and analyze an overreliance on technology in deaf education spaces in Indian classrooms and the impacts of this technology use on teacher expectations. They also explore interactions between educators and parents of deaf children in Los Angeles, California, as these actors grapple with making choices in a context of audism; and consider sign language rights for deaf children in early intervention and education through a Canadian case study featuring a child denied access to sign language and an appropriate and accessible education.

This book will be an essential resource for students and researchers of critical pedagogy, teaching and learning, inclusive education, and disability studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Deafness & Education International.

The Routledge Handbook of Conversation Analysis offers a detailed overview of how everyday interaction shapes social life-from classrooms and hospitals to courtrooms, homes, and online settings. This volume introduces the key principles and practices of conversation analysis (CA), a framework for examining how people coordinate actions through talk, gesture, and other embodied and material resources.

With contributions from over 60 scholars across Europe, Asia, the Americas, and beyond, the Handbook explores how interaction operates across languages, cultures, and institutions. The chapters examine how people build relationships, manage social roles, and navigate complex environments through moment-by-moment communication. In addition to established research areas, the contributors highlight growing areas of research such as multilingual interaction, neurodivergent communication, and human-AI encounters. They likewise show how CA is applied across fields including second language learning, law, healthcare, and technology design. Each chapter provides a clear entry point into a particular area of study, along with suggestions for further exploration.

This comprehensive Handbook will appeal not only to CA specialists but also to researchers and students in applied linguistics, education, communication studies, anthropology, and human-computer interaction.

This fully updated second edition of Critical Curriculum Studies offers a conceptual framework that bridges curriculum design with students' understanding of the world around them.

In this new edition, Wayne Au brings together curriculum theory, critical educational studies, and feminist standpoint theory with practical examples of teaching for social justice to argue for a transformative curriculum that challenges existing inequity in social, educational, and economic relations. Making use of the work of important scholars such as Freire, Vygotsky, Hartsock, Harding, and others, Critical Curriculum Studies argues that we must understand the relationship between the curriculum and the types of consciousness we carry out into the world. The second edition includes fully updated references and examples throughout the text, expanded discussion of dialectics, and improved pedagogical features, including connections to classroom practice and new chapter summaries to aid student understanding.

Combining theory and practice, this book will be core reading for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students in Curriculum Studies, Curriculum and Instruction, and Foundations of Education courses.

German Prisoners of the Second World War in the United States examines the complex lives of German POWs held on American soil during WWII, exploring camp policies, internal conflicts, and their lasting impact on prisoner mental health.

This comprehensive historical analysis reveals the untold story of German POWs through archival materials from British, American, Red Cross, and German sources. Readers will discover how problematic camp policies created dangerous conditions, while internal warfare between Nazi minorities and mainstream German soldiers led to violence and murder within the camps. The book examines the British-American partnership that shaped the camp system, explores the psychological trauma experienced by prisoners, and evaluates how Americans attempted to balance security with humane treatment. A compelling comparative analysis contrasts WWII POW care with contemporary treatment of prisoners from the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, offering insights into the evolution of prisoner treatment and raising important questions about future POW policies.

This book will appeal to undergraduate students and readers interested in contemporary American history, World War II studies, and trauma research. It also serves as an excellent resource for courses on wartime history, prisoner treatment, psychological trauma, and military ethics.

Parahistory and the Popular Past challenges the tired debate over historical fact versus fiction by focusing on what really matters: how different forms of representation create meaning and establish responsibility. Moving beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries, this book diagnoses a fundamental tension between history's objectives and the generic forms available to achieve them. It develops a pragmatic, present-minded historical consciousness that foregrounds ethical responsibility while engaging with contemporary communicative realities.

Through detailed investigations of narrative conventions, genre and historical experience, the book distinguishes between the historical and practical past. Theoretical insights are deepened through sustained analyses of works like Josef Skvorecky's The Engineer of Human Souls, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, David Lynch's Mulholland Drive and George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo. With these analyses, the book develops reading practices to deal with the autonomy of artistic works, demonstrating how they construct complex meanings and reshape audience responsibility. By reconceptualizing the field in terms of a broad history culture, it positions professional history and parahistory as related meaning-making practices, shifting focus from boundary-policing toward the ethical implications of representation for contemporary readers and publics.

This book is essential reading for historians, literary scholars and anyone interested in how we make sense of the past.

Celebrating 50 years since its initial publication, Concepts and Theories of Human Development provides the most comprehensive overview of the foundational theoretical contributions to understanding human development, and the influence of these contributions on contemporary research and their application in developmental science. The book discusses the assumptions involved in such topics as the nature-nurture issue, the issue of continuity-discontinuity, dynamic, relational developmental systems (RDS)-based concepts and models, and the important role of philosophical ideas about theories-in particular, metatheories-in understanding the links between theory and research.

Key features of this edition include:

• Two brand new chapters:
• • "Developmental Methodology," which explores the useful and problematic approaches to describing, explaining, and optimizing individual development across time and place offering insights into common pitfalls and how to avoid them
  • "Applying Developmental Science," which focuses on applying dynamic, RDS-based concepts to advance social justice, foster moral and character development, and strengthen democracy
• A new exploration of what it means to be human, a theme that is woven throughout the entire text
• Discussions on recent methodological innovations in developmental science, providing tools to better understand the unique, person-specific features of human life

An essential resource for students and professionals alike, this book has become the go-to guide for graduate students studying for their comprehensive exams on human development.

The book is supported by a website featuring videos from the author and scholars in the field of human development, available at routledgelearning.com/conceptshumandev.

The Therapeutic Afterlife: Spirituality and the New Sacred provides a compelling and original analysis of how contemporary self-help literature is transforming our ideas about God, the soul, and life after death. As more people identify as "spiritual but not religious," these concepts-once grounded exclusively in formal religious traditions-are now recast in the language of healing, growth, empowerment, and wellness, reshaping both spirituality and health discourses in the 21st century.

Topics explored include after-death communication, near-death experiences, reincarnation, past-life memories, karma, mediumship, paranormal trauma, out-of-body experiences, suicide, angel therapy, demonology, spirit possession, clinical exorcism, psychic abilities, and more. The study shows how these themes are integrated into therapeutic culture, reframing the afterlife as an essential part of a holistic, transformative approach to living-one that challenges conventional psychotherapeutic frameworks, secular worldviews, and traditional religion. It offers a novel examination of the popular 'afterlife therapeutic' as indicative of a profound re-enchantment of society.

Its insights will resonate not only with scholars of sociology but also across related disciplines, including psychology, religious studies, anthropology, health education, and cultural studies. By conceptualizing the therapeutic afterlife as a new sacred paradigm, this book provides an indispensable guide to one of the fastest-growing fields in contemporary culture.

Interpretation: A Contemporary Introduction invites readers into the evolving heart of psychoanalytic practice, where interpretation stands as both central mystery and transformative tool.

Throughout the book, Aner Govrin traces the evolution of interpretation from Freud's archaeological model of uncovering unconscious wishes, through Klein's immediate interpretive acts in early childhood, Bion's emphasis on containment and creative uncertainty, Winnicott's focus on relational presence and Kohut's revolution of empathic immersion. Contemporary relational and field theories receive in-depth treatment through analyses of landmark papers and clinical moments that illuminate how interpretation heals, transforms and sometimes provokes crisis. Rich clinical vignettes and philosophical reflections bring theoretical debates to life, making complex ideas both rigorous and accessible. Readers gain practical understanding of how different interpretive approaches work in real therapeutic encounters while grappling with fundamental questions about meaning, relationship and therapeutic change. Far from a simple technique, interpretation emerges as a paradoxical process that shapes psychic reality and bridges the gap between knowing and not-knowing.

Offering a concise yet thorough introduction to interpretation, this book is a perfect guide for practicing clinicians, graduate students, supervisors and scholars alike interested in psychoanalysis as both clinical practice and intellectual tradition.

This book brings together the first-hand experiences of more than fifty mainstream and special school leaders to provide both inspirational and realistic advice on inclusion and SEND. Following an A-Z format, the book is packed with practical tips and solutions to everyday challenges and opportunities facing headteachers, SENCos and other senior leaders.

A wealth of knowledge and skills are shared, covering topics from accountability and behaviour to relationships and resilience, with the intention of being meaningfully supportive during what can be challenging and intense working days. The growing complexity and demands of leadership roles, as well as the opportunities to share expertise in securing the progress of pupils who need additional or specialist support are also considered.

Distilling guidance from the authors' in-depth interviews and action research, this accessible - and often humorous - dip-in-and-out book will be a valuable read for aspiring and practising leaders in both mainstream and specialist settings.

This essential resource supports teachers, trainees and assessors who work or intend to work in the Further Education and Skills sector, specifically in relation to students with Learning Difficulties and/or Disabilities (LLDD) including those on vocational courses and bespoke pathways.

Incorporating areas such as the curriculum, policies and statutory guidance and the four areas of need identified in the SEND Code of Practice (2015), this book utilises latest research evidence in the assessment, teaching, learning and support with respect to the group of learners, providing strategies of support based on reliable practice. The book will also support staff who work with learners with specific needs such as autism or dyslexia, complex needs or those on a vocational course such as construction, who may have additional needs. Strategies are provided for assessment and planning with learners who may have cognitive, sensory and physical needs, social, emotional and mental health difficulties, or communication and interaction needs.

By explicitly linking theories of assessment, planning and delivery of an inclusive curriculum and drawing on case studies, this accessible and highly practical companion will be valuable to all teachers, trainees and assessors working with LLDD learners in the Further Education and Skills sector.

This comprehensive edited collection brings together the latest research, case studies, institutional policies, and best practices pertaining to student mental health, wellbeing, and university experiences.

University students are navigating an increasingly complex landscape, facing a multitude of challenges that can put their mental health and overall wellbeing at significant risk. From adapting to new social environments and escalating expenses to global crises, social injustices, and an uncertain future job market, students are grappling with a range of stressors that can take a toll on their psychological wellbeing. In response to this growing crisis, the editors present a diverse range of chapters that explore topics such as improving students' sense of belonging, supporting student transitions into university, and educational approaches to support student engagement and wellbeing.

Providing a holistic and multifaceted examination of this critical issue, this is an invaluable resource for educators, administrators, policymakers, and stakeholders committed to creating supportive and nurturing environments that foster student mental health and success.

Rooted in both well-being and neuro-affirming lenses, this timely, essential text offers a comprehensive guide to supporting adults with ADHD.

The book compiles and synthesizes theoretical frameworks, cutting-edge, evidence-based coaching and psychological science, positive psychology, and research findings, as well as numerous examples, with their application to adults who have ADHD. It offers an array of practical, theoretically sound, evidence-supported approaches practitioners can easily implement as a guide to providing optimal support for adult clients with ADHD. Practitioners will find clear and useful direction for numerous, complementary approaches to helping clients with ADHD: (1) cultivate the ability to make self-determined choices and take more effective action; (2) develop hope, resilience, agency, and capacity; and (3) achieve both personal growth and overall well-being.

Therapists, coaches, and others working with this population will appreciate the text's clear, practical, and evidence-based guidance on a range of approaches promoting well-being-and flourishing-for adult clients with ADHD.

Integrating Narrative Identity in Suicidology examines the pivotal role of stories in forming our identities and how, when those stories break down, suicidality can emerge.

While addressing universal themes within suicidology, the book also draws on specific Canadian contributions. These insights reflect Canada's diverse socio-cultural landscape and its unique approach to mental health challenges. Canadian research and practices offer valuable perspectives that enhance our understanding of narrative identity's role in mental health. By integrating these contributions, the book not only enriches the dialogue around suicidality but also illustrates how localized insights can have global relevance.

Presented here is not merely an academic treatise but a practical guide for mental health professionals who are keen to apply principles of narrative identity and story reconstruction. It provides a method to help those adrift reconnect with their stories, offering a renewed sense of hope and a redefined identity, thereby restoring their place in the world.

Cultural Perceptions of Health, Illness and Medicine in Medieval and Early Modern Europe explores the rich cultural history of bodily experience through diverse case studies spanning from Italy to Sweden and from England to the Levant.

How did medieval and early modern Europeans experience and understand sickness and health? How did they interact with health professionals and authorities, and which cultural and social networks shaped their understanding of wellness and illness? Drawing from extensive primary sources, this book examines how people of the past navigated their bodies' vulnerabilities both at home and abroad. It reveals how they consulted and challenged medical and civic authorities while seeking both physical and spiritual healing through religious practice.

Covering a broad temporal span from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century, this collection of essays reimagines the role of material bodies and their social and emotional significance in medieval and early modern cultural history. The work offers fresh insights into the intersection of medicine, culture, and society across five centuries of European experience.

The Body and Compulsion from Infancy to Young Adulthood: New Perspectives on Addiction, Self-Harm and Suicide examines the complex interplay between early childhood experiences and the development of compulsive behaviours across the lifespan, with a focus on how these compulsions present from infancy to young adulthood.

A diverse group of international psychoanalysts from a range of theoretical perspectives and clinical experiences examine the severe bodily symptoms and syndromes often seen in young patients. They provide profound insight into the metapsychological foundations of repetition and destructiveness. Through compelling clinical vignettes and theoretical explorations, the contributors demonstrate how early trauma and neglect can disrupt the psyche, leading to damaging behavioural and emotional pathologies. Conditions such as eating disorders, depression, anxiety, violent behaviour, suicidality, and addiction are explored in detail, with the contributors highlighting the challenges they pose in the therapeutic setting and offering guidance on how to navigate sessions with those suffering from them.

This essential volume provides invaluable insights for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and mental health professionals working with patients struggling with compulsive patterns, while also offering theoretical depth for scholars interested in early development, trauma, and the foundations of psychic structure.

In Free Association: A Contemporary Introduction, Barnaby Barratt presents a compelling and much-needed exploration of the method of free association within psychoanalytic treatment.

This concise yet comprehensive book examines the historical roots, philosophical implications and transformative impact on the human psyche of free association, making it an essential resource for understanding the deep unconscious forces that shape our lives. Barratt demonstrates how free association uniquely reveals dimensions of the human condition that remain hidden in ordinary therapeutic approaches. Readers will gain insight into the distinctions between psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, the significance of repression and psychic energy, and the profound shifts in being that free association facilitates. Barratt's critical analysis of prevailing theories and alternative methods, such as somatic and shamanic practices, highlights the unparalleled ability of free association to reinvigorate psychic energies and existential freedom.

This book is a vital resource for psychoanalysts in training and practice, and anyone deeply curious about the human psyche. It is also a valuable tool for instructors and researchers in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and related fields.

Curriculum integration disrupts traditional subject-by-subject structures in favour of more interdisciplinary approaches. While cross-curricular teaching and learning has promise, pathways to classroom practice are not always straightforward. In a rich exploration of curriculum integration, this book brings together global perspectives to examine its theoretical foundations and practical applications. The need to create meaningful learning experiences to support student achievement is prioritised throughout.

Divided into four key sections, the first introduces key debates and ideas, tracing the historical development of integration and exploring its philosophical underpinnings. The second section dives into disciplinary perspectives, showcasing how integration is applied across STEM, social studies, the arts, and wellbeing, whilst highlighting the risks and rewards of integration across diverse contexts. The final two sections focus on language and literacy integration, as well as the classroom as a dynamic site of practice. Packed full of practical guidance for designing integrated curricula, it emphasises the importance of teacher decision-making, learner interests, and classroom context. The crucial role of knowledge is also considered throughout this book.

Curriculum Integration in Primary Classrooms is an invaluable resource for educators, researchers, and policymakers alike, providing the tools and insights needed to navigate the complexities of curriculum integration in diverse educational settings. Far from prescribing a one-size-fits-all approach, this volume invites readers to critically reflect on what curriculum integration is, what it has been, and what it might become.

This book provides readers with a new working model of the human mind based on contemporary trends in cognitive science. Taking a distinct biological approach, the book presents mind and brain as two sides of the same coin while at the same time emphasizing the need for separate accounts. The reader is introduced step by step to the mind account showing how it operates.

The text explores the mind's basic architecture examining how its family of eleven systems interact flexibly and collaboratively to process information, mostly subconsciously. Key topics include the five systems that build specialized representations from sensory input, consciousness, memory, emotions, comparisons between human and animal cognition, language processing, and concepts of Self, Free Will, and spirituality. The book illuminates how general principles of activation, association, and competition act in combination with the unique principles that govern each of the mind's specialized systems. One chapter explains two of these systems in more detail to illustrate how expertise from any relevant area of research can be used elaborate the basic model.

Written in an accessible style, The Human Mind Revealed offers valuable insights for students and scholars across cognitive science disciplines as well as general readers curious about how the mind works.

Gravitational Psyche draws on ideas from physics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, to propose a radical reframing of how subjectivity is structured and sustained.

What if the psyche, like the cosmos, is governed by invisible curves and recursive loops? Exploring how symbolic atmosphere, affective orbit, and curved epistemologies shape experience from the ground up, this volume integrates psychoanalytic theory with metaphors drawn from physics, nonduality, and recursive form. It develops a topological and recursive framework for analytic practice: the mind as a curved field, shaped by symbolic tension, relational mass, and recursive returns. Anderson presents the psyche not as a static structure but as a gravitational space, where repetition, collapse, and atmosphere reveal the curved nature of subjectivity. It further equips readers to orient, listen, and intervene where language thins, helping analysis preserve vitality without forcing premature coherence. This book offers readers a fresh vocabulary for working at the edge of symbolization.

Bridging theory and practice with vivid clinical illustrations, conceptual maps, and a study guide designed to support teaching and supervision, this book is key reading for all psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.

Psychosis: A Contemporary Introduction offers an in-depth exploration of psychosis from a psychoanalytic perspective, combining historical developments, clinical reflections, and the author's extensive original research.

Franco De Masi outlines the history of psychoanalytic approaches to the treatment and understanding of psychosis, focusing on symptoms such as delusion, hallucination, psychotic dreams, the collapse of symbolization, and sensory withdrawal. Addressing the challenges often encountered in clinical work, De Masi explores analytic tools that may support psychotic patients, particularly where traditional approaches grounded in the dynamic unconscious might have failed. He discusses the therapeutic setting, looking at pharmacological support as well as the temporal dimension and quality of interpretative work.

Written in a clear and accessible style, this volume serves as an ideal introduction for those approaching psychosis for the first time, both clinically and theoretically, as well as for those seeking contemporary and innovative perspectives on the subject. It is a valuable resource for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, and researchers.

SHERBET is a unique tool designed to help practitioners support young people aged 11-17 who exhibit aggressive behaviours. Using CBT-based strategies, the program aims to enhance their ability to recognise, regulate, and manage their emotions effectively.

Grounded in research and best practice, SHERBET draws on emotion regulation theories and motivational interviewing techniques. The structured group programme offers clear guidance in a supportive environment while remaining adaptable to individual needs. By addressing emotional overwhelm and unhealthy coping strategies early, the programme works to reduce future mental health and behavioural challenges. Activities promote perspective taking, empathy development, and bias awareness, alongside strategies to strengthen communication skills. The comprehensive manual includes detailed instructions for staff training, programme evaluation, practical worksheets (also available as downloadable resources), and role-playing exercises for facilitating effective group sessions.

This resource is essential for all professionals working with children who experience difficulties with emotion regulation, including mental health practitioners, school counsellors, youth justice workers, social workers, special education teachers, and other professionals involved in child and adolescent well-being. Readers are expected to have a foundational understanding of child development, emotional and behavioural difficulties, and therapeutic interventions.

An Introduction to the Psychology of Humor presents comprehensive research from ten psychological perspectives: cognitive, biological, personality, social, cross-cultural, developmental, health, positive, clinical, and applied. This accessible overview explores how humor contributes to cognitive functioning, social relationships, and overall well-being, while examining its role in coping mechanisms, creativity, and emotional regulation. The second edition includes expanded coverage of humor during the COVID-19 pandemic, humor in social media, artificial intelligence and humor, and recent theoretical developments.

The book features student-friendly elements including learning objectives, theoretical assumptions for each perspective, clear definitions of key terms, illustrative examples from humor studies, and detailed methodology and findings. Each chapter concludes with a recap of main points, suggested classroom activities, and a study guide with concept questions. With over 600 cited papers, this text connects humor research to fundamental concepts across all areas of psychology.

Written primarily for psychology undergraduates who typically receive limited exposure to humor research, this book fills an important gap in psychology education. The content is equally valuable for instructors seeking to incorporate humor research into various psychology courses, as the material connects to all major psychological paradigms. Students and teachers alike will appreciate the thought-provoking explanations, examples, and classroom activities that demonstrate humor's significance in human cognition, social dynamics, and mental health.

This book explores the most unstable facets of psychic life and how these can be understood and engaged in the psychoanalytic consulting room.

Psychic life is sustained by its very instabilities-by fragmentation, paradox, and the defenses that make survival possible. In dialogue with both psychoanalytic and philosophical traditions, Anderson shows how analysis becomes an aesthetic practice of presence, one that sustains the paradoxes necessary for psychic vitality. Reframing foundational psychoanalytic concepts such as the false self, regression, and symbolization, this book develops a clinical lens attuned to ambiguity, embodiment, and survival. Drawing from relational and post-structuralist traditions, it weaves vivid clinical vignettes with theoretical inquiry to explore how the psyche organizes itself around absence, symbolic rupture, and ethical refusal.

With a distinctive perspective on subjectivity, this book offers an aesthetic and ethical framework for psychoanalysis-one that sustains engagement with paradox, dissociation, and symbolic survival over premature resolution. It is essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and scholars of psychoanalytic thought.

The Historians of Ancient Rome is the most comprehensive collection of ancient sources for Roman history available in a single English volume, tracing the history of Rome from the city's foundation by Romulus in 753 BCE to the rise of Christianity as the religion of the Roman emperors in the fourth century CE.

After a general introduction on Roman historical writing, extensive passages from more than a dozen Greek and Roman historians and biographers as well as coins, images, and inscriptions explore over 1000 years of Rome's history. Readers will engage with how the Romans wrote about Rome's climb to world domination and the challenges it faced in the late empire: the defeat of Hannibal; the conquest of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean; the defeat of the Catilinarian conspiracy; Caesar's conquest of Gaul; Antony and Cleopatra; the establishment of the Empire by Caesar Augustus; the horrors of the reigns of Tiberius and Nero; the "Roman Peace" under Hadrian; and the political turmoil, disintegration, and consolidation in the third and fourth centuries CE. The fourth edition has been revised to include maps, coins, new inscriptions, images, and additional readings, providing a rich anthology that makes visible both the textual and material worlds by which Roman society represented, controlled, and experienced the past.

The Historians of Ancient Rome is intended both for undergraduate courses in Roman history and for the general reader interested in approaching the Romans through the original historical sources. This is a book that no student of Roman history should be without.