Drawing on case studies from around the world, this book explores how different professionals, organisations and agencies can and do intervene during the course of the dementia journey, from diagnosis to death, to ensure that care is integrated, coordinated and person-centred.

Dementia impacts greatly on the health and social care needs for the person with dementia and their families and carers, and there is evidence that integrated and coordinated care with collaboration from different organisations and agencies can lead to better quality of life outcomes. This innovative text critiques and challenges contemporary practice, providing examples of good practice globally and reflecting on how their inclusion within policy and practice could prevent the fragmentation of care. It includes chapters exploring collaborative care strategies in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Japan, Qatar, the Philippines and Australia, each with a different thematic focus such as organising and planning care, education for practitioners, and multi-sectoral and community collaboration. Two further chapters draw on personal narratives of caring.

Providing a unique collection of best practice ideas for collaborative dementia care, this book is an essential resource for a wide range of health and social care practitioners, researchers, educators and students involved in dementia care and research.

This volume unveils the untold personal narratives behind the scientific study of human language and cognition from a behavioral perspective. Moving beyond the formal record of published research, it captures the passion, debates, failures, and moments of discovery that have shaped this transformative field over the past seventy years and beyond. Through these stories, readers gain a deeper understanding of the human experiences that drive the quest to build a natural science of human behavior.

Structured as a compelling historical narrative, the book traces the evolution of the field from Skinner's Verbal Behavior to groundbreaking developments in areas such as rule-governed behavior, stimulus equivalence, relational frame theory, and naming theory. Contributors, ranging from foundational figures to contemporary innovators, share candid accounts of intellectual rebellion, collaboration, mentorship, and the challenges of translating complex science into practice. These narratives highlight the pivotal role of global exchange, persistence, and the lived experiences of scientists in advancing the field.

This book is an essential resource for scholars, students, researchers, and practitioners in behavior analysis and psychology, as well as historians and philosophers of science. Its engaging and personal storytelling makes it ideal for graduate and undergraduate courses, while offering invaluable insights for anyone curious about the history of science and the people who shape it.

This accessible and informative guide introduces educational practices for the classroom to inspire and innovate the education of students with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). Combining practical strategies with insights from psychology and neuroscience, the book enables teachers to better understand SEND learners and to improve their confidence in the classroom.

With the theme of inclusivity present throughout, the book initially explores theoretical underpinnings, then introduces a range of practical approaches to enhance curriculum development, pupil wellbeing, and outcomes of school communities. Chapters equip the reader with tools, case studies, and discussion points to develop a clear pedagogy for SEND teaching and learning, igniting potential and ultimately improving the teaching and learning experience for all. These resources empower educators to reimagine their practices and drive meaningful, systemic shifts in education.

Igniting Potential is about fanning a flame of professional discovery for the ultimate benefit of your SEND pupils. It will be essential reading for SENCOs and school leaders, as well as trainee and practising mainstream teachers.

The HBCU Sisterhood: Testimonies of Triumph and Transformation is a powerful, first-of-its-kind anthology that pulls back the curtain on one of the most extraordinary leadership legacies in American history. For the first time, eight pioneering Black women presidents-Dr. Sebetha Jenkins, Dr. Dianne Boardley Suber, Dr. Trudie Kibbe Reed, Dr. Brenda Allen, Dr. Cynthia Jackson-Hammond, Dr. Cheryl Davenport Dozier, Dr. Colette Pierce Burnette, and Dr. Cynthia Warrick-share their stories in their own words. These are the voices that sustained, protected, and transformed America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities through some of the most challenging eras of modern higher education.

Their testimonies are breathtakingly honest and profoundly insightful. These women describe the realities of navigating financial crises, accreditation pressures, political scrutiny, cultural resistance, gender bias, and the relentless expectations placed on Black women leaders. Through every challenge, they demonstrate bravery, integrity, excellence, resilience, and grace. Their reflections offer powerful wisdom for aspiring leaders and provide a historic lens into the inner workings of HBCUs, reminding readers that leadership at these institutions is both a calling and a transformative act of service.

More than a book, The HBCU Sisterhood stands as a living archive of Black women's leadership and a tribute to the enduring strength of HBCUs. This volume includes a historical documentation of every HBCU founded in the United States and the women who have served as sister presidents across the sector. A companion workbook extends the experience, inviting readers to reflect, engage, and apply the leadership insights shared within these pages. This collection is essential reading for anyone who cares about education, equity, and the powerful legacy of Black women leading with vision and purpose.

Religion, History and Identity Construction: Identity Games covers the historiographical shift from universalistic monogenist narratives to chauvinistic polygenist narratives in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It offers a detailed study of the intellectual thought and socio-political conditions that shaped the evolution of Eurocentric world history narratives with an argument that various supremacy claims -such as the Scythian Hypothesis, the Northern Hypothesis, bio-illogical racism, and the imagined homogeneity-as well as the Indo-European/Aryan Hypothesis, are distortions of earlier faith-based assertions designed to rewrite world and European histories within ongoing identity games. Each chapter connects and explains how these pseudo-scientific hypotheses are intertwined with religious beliefs.

This book emphasizes the need to shift our approach to history writing from teleological and polygenist narratives crafted by linguists to monogenist conclusions backed by archaeology and historical evidence. It exhibits that our humanity is far more diverse than opponents of equality imagine. The concept of race is just a perception that reintroduces the pre-modern idea of inequality under the guise of science. Essentially, there exists only one human race.

It is an essential book for scholars as well as novice readers of history seeking to understand the historiographical shift in Eurasia.

Children and young people's mental health is now recognised as one of society's most pressing challenges. Rates of distress and disorder have risen sharply while services struggle to keep pace. Long waiting lists and public concern highlight the growing gap between what children need and what professional systems can deliver. Yet, there remains an expectation that therapy alone should provide the answer.

This book argues that the mental health needs of children cannot be met by specialist services in isolation. Instead, it calls for a new approach that brings together parents, teachers, peers and communities alongside mental health professionals, each playing an equal part in supporting children's wellbeing. Drawing on research, policy and practice experience, this book identifies six principles of effective help: the active involvement of parents and carers; the importance of listening to children's own wishes; creating environments of psychological safety; recognising that help can come from many sources; embedding support within everyday community life; and building a culture where caring for children's mental health becomes everyone's shared responsibility.

Written by leading figures in child mental health, this book offers a powerful new framework for rethinking how society responds to young people's distress. It speaks to professionals, educators, parents and policymakers alike, showing how families, schools and communities can work together to nurture resilience and belonging, reducing dependence on overstretched specialist services.

The Creative Spiral provides a comprehensive roadmap for understanding how creativity and identity develop together across the lifespan. Drawing from personal and professional creative experiences as well as contemporary research in creativity psychology, positive psychology, and developmental science, this book presents a unique model that helps readers explore where they are in their own creative journey and how to move forward with greater clarity, purpose, and confidence.

Across four stages and 12 interconnected chapters, readers learn how to build strong creative foundations, expand their capacities, develop expertise, and cultivate the wisdom needed to contribute meaningfully to their communities and the wider world. Each chapter blends research-supported insights with reflective prompts and practical action steps designed to help readers deepen self-awareness, strengthen creative habits, and navigate challenges such as self-doubt, burnout, or creative blocks.

This book is written for artists, educators, therapists, coaches, students, entrepreneurs, arts-practitioners, and anyone seeking to understand their creative lives more fully.

Readers will gain a powerful framework for making sense of their experiences, reconnecting with their intrinsic motivations, and engaging more intentionally with their creative development. Whether beginning a new chapter or refining a long-standing practice, The Creative Spiral offers guidance for becoming a more grounded, purposeful, and connected creative person.

What triggers a hallucination? Can our lifestyles impact the likelihood of auditory or visual hallucinations? Can hallucinations be a part of normal cognition? The Psychology of Hallucinations takes readers on a journey through visual and auditory hallucinations-perceptions experienced in the absence of external stimuli yet felt with compelling realism. It explores the ways hallucinations have been embraced throughout history by some cultures whilst also looking at how they have become a subject of scepticism and fear. The book adopts a compassionate look at the clinical and psychiatric implications of hallucinations alongside lifestyle factors such as sleep deprivation and substance use. Whether they represent a doorway to creative revelation, markers of struggle or subjects of philosophical inquiry, hallucinations deserve exploration that is curious, compassionate and clear-eyed. This volume provides just that-a guide for anyone seeking to understand, rather than simply fear, the mysteries at the borders of the mind.

Teaching Culture in the 21st Century presents the Process Model for Teaching and Understanding Culture (PMTUC), a practical framework for developing cultural competence that moves beyond lists of dos and don'ts, dimensions, and holiday activities. Treating culture as a system of beliefs and meanings, this book shows how cultural assumptions shape interpretation, communication, and decision-making. It offers educators a clear, coherent way to make these dynamics visible and discussable in their courses and programs.

Grounded in more than 30 years of higher education teaching, including 18 years of teaching culture at the doctoral level and experience working with international students from over 30 countries, this book links theory to practice. It introduces the theoretical foundations of PMTUC, including cultural syndromes, dimensional frameworks, and metaphorical perspectives, and explains how these concepts support phases of learning: self-awareness, comparative analysis, and metaphor construction. Through examples, activities, and illustrations, readers can see how to design curricula, facilitate dialogue, and assess growth in cultural understanding. This book addresses academic, professional, and community contexts and includes guidance for in-person, online, and hybrid environments.

Designed for teacher educators, classroom teachers, and corporate or military trainers, this book provides a flexible process that can structure courses, workshops, and institutional initiatives. By centering systems of belief and inviting learners to construct their own cultural metaphors, the book helps learners move from passive recipients of cultural information to active meaning-makers who are prepared to navigate the complexities of intercultural engagement. It is suited to courses on culture, diversity, leadership, and education today.

A comprehensive resource on the nature and value of African religious life

Portrayals of African spirituality have been tainted in the past by harmful stereotypes and negative judgments or have altogether ignored African religions. Very few scholarly works have encompassed the depth of how spiritual care is conceptualized and practiced in African and African diasporic communities.

Spiritual Care in African Religious Cultures offers insights into the nature and value of African religious life while also giving persons of different religious persuasions information about African beliefs and practices. This book reveals how practitioners of African traditional religions and people who engage in African spirituality draw on their own spiritual traditions to help them live satisfying and productive lives. Lartey addresses key beliefs about the divine realm, ancestors, evil, health, death, and life, as well as practices such as ceremonies, manifestation of spirit, naming, and healing rites inherent in African and African Heritage religions, which are utilized in providing care for persons amid the challenges of living. He invites us to go beyond maligning and misrepresenting African religions and to enter into the therapeutic and life-giving realities of African life and thought.

Spiritual Care in African Religious Cultures is a comprehensive resource on African understandings of spiritual care and has the potential to enhance communal relationships for multicultural communities.

The Therapeutic Use of Psychedelics is a comprehensive manual for mental health professionals that details the vital aspects of psychedelic integration therapy.

The book provides essential skills, tools, and insights for preparing clients for psychedelic sessions, supporting them during the experience, and aiding post-session integration for long-term benefits. Chapters describe the personal work, tools, and mindsets professionals need before they begin work in this area, and the book also covers vital topics such as proper client screening for safety, vital psychedelic psychoeducation, and the relationship between mindfulness skills, psychedelics, and other states of consciousness.

Throughout the manual, clinicians will find engaging stories and case studies, academic research, and practical guidelines to help them bridge the gap between traditional mental health practices and the emerging field of psychedelic therapy.

A practical guide to ethical living during uncertain and unsettling times

When life presents its wobbly moments and you find yourself asking "And now what?" you need more than abstract philosophy. Seeking Your Better Self offers a thought-provoking guide for personal moral reflection and growth. Drawing upon the challenges and choices of daily life, this accessible and action-oriented book helps you live your ideals, hold your values, and stay ethically grounded.

Written in a warm and welcoming voice, this aspirational guide transforms uncertainty into opportunity for ethical development. Rather than presenting rigid rules, it encourages readers to recognize and embrace moments of doubt as catalysts for meaningful change. The book balances humility with hope, providing motivational frameworks that connect everyday problems to deeper life purposes through sustained self-reflection.

You'll also discover how to:

• Move from the problems currently dominating your life toward identifying and pursuing your authentic life purpose
• Recognize, value, and embrace wobbly or uncertain moments as opportunities for meaningful personal growth and development
• Deepen and engage your capacity for ethical self-reflection through practical exercises and guided contemplation techniques
• Develop the distinctive virtues necessary for building and maintaining rich, satisfying relationships with others
• Define and articulate your core life purposes with clarity, intention, and genuine commitment to ethical living

Seeking Your Better Self serves anyone navigating life's uncertain moments with the question "And now what?" Whether facing career transitions, relationship challenges, or personal crossroads, this guide provides the ethical framework and practical tools needed to move forward with integrity and purpose.

Study Skills for Linguistics is the essential companion for students embarking on a degree in linguistics. Covering all the core skills that students of linguistics will require during the early part of their degree, this book gives the reader a basic understanding of the field, as well as confidence in how to find out more and how to prepare for their future career.

The key features covered include:

• subject-specific skills including basic linguistic tools and terminology, such as word classes and grammatical terminology;
• essential study skills, such as how to perform well in the degree, how to search for and reference literature and how to write an essay;
• guides for a future with a linguistics degree, including how to write a CV and prepare for a range of graduate destinations.

The new edition has been updated throughout and includes a thoroughly revised section on career development, more information for graduate students and more international examples.

An accessible guide to essential skills in the field of linguistics, Study Skills for Linguistics is a must-read for students contemplating studying this topic, and provides a guide that will take them through their degree and beyond.

This collection foregrounds the experiences, perspectives, and insights of emerging and established scholars who creatively and expansively approach the study of gender and sexuality through qualitative methodologies. By emphasizing positionality and subjectivity, contributors explore the ethical and responsible dimensions of inquiry, offering fresh perspectives on critical qualitative research.
Divided into three sections, the text provides a comprehensive exploration of innovative approaches. The first section, "(Re)conceptualizations of Gender and Sexuality," re-envisions the possibilities of critical qualitative research in these fields. The second section, "Methodologies of Co-Construction, Participation, and Community-Engagement," delves into reciprocal, ethical, and reflexive research practices. The third section, "Arts-Based and Contemplative Methodologies," highlights the transformative potential of multimodal and arts-based methods in exploring questions of gender and sexuality.
Ideal for scholars at all stages of their research journey, this text offers praxis-oriented examples and cutting-edge methodologies. It serves as an invaluable resource for those seeking to expand their understanding of gender and sexuality through innovative qualitative research approaches.

Cedric Robinson's widely acclaimed study on Marxism and race has enjoyed a celebratory renaissance in recent years, becoming commonplace across the disciplines and beyond to activist and left circles. The Antinomies of Black Marxism contests its now-enormous influence, bringing together leading scholars of Marxism to reassess the decisive question of race and Marxist thought and practice.

While varied in their approaches, the contributors all affirm that racism is a modern production of capitalist class exploitation. They put forth a trenchant and uncompressing critique of Black Marxism. They see Robinson's transhistoric racialism and hostility to Marxism as politically dangerous to the extent that it propagates a race over a class consciousness that undermines working-class unity. They place a premium on multiethnic, transnational proletarian struggle against capitalism at a time of epochal crisis in the global capitalist system.

This indispensable compendium makes a timely contribution to contemporary debates on race, class, capitalism, and social inequality and is essential to classes on Black Studies and black social thought, as it provides a thorough analysis and critique of one of the landmark contemporary critical theorists in US political and social theory.

Designed for graduate classroom and professional development use, this guide encourages readers to think rhetorically about audience, genre, and beyond, and to apply these reflections in meaningful ways as they craft the documents they will need throughout their careers.

The first part addresses key concepts in design convergence: design thinking, information architecture, and technology, and the second section provides application opportunities for readers. In establishing a foundational understanding of the key concepts used in design convergence, the guide brings together a range of disciplinary knowledge and experiences, including ways to work with generative artificial intelligence. Integrated into each chapter are exercises and scenarios based on real-world academic professionals' experiences that are designed to help readers deepen their understanding and consider possibilities and opportunities for (re)design in their field. Each chapter includes activities that position readers to work with their own information and content toward purposes that meet their personalized needs. These exercises include generating documents related to educating, leading, branding, and serving, such as classroom, research, and professional development materials.

Providing an equitable foundation for document genre construction and demystifying audience expectations, this book appeals to graduate students, faculty and institutional leaders in Rhetoric, Composition and Writing Studies as well as the humanities, arts, and social sciences.

This book asks whether Marx's concepts can still be useful to those seeking emancipation in the time of platform capitalism. Offering a pointed discussion of what emancipation in the workplace would mean, it explores the potential of Humanist Marxism to address this possibility.

Humanist Marxism, as advocated by Georg Lukacs and Henri Lefebvre, among others, provides invaluable tools for analysing the transformations and shortcomings of contemporary society. It puts forward the hypothesis that a universal human essence evolves over time thanks to the efforts of individuals in their work, gradually humanising the world and increasing the wealth and power of societies. However, with this progress comes a "dark side" caused by advances in technology and digital platforms, bringing new forms of alienation and dramatically altering our relationships with work and others. Drawing on analysis of platforms such as Uber and positing that labour plays a key role in human bondage or emancipation, the book shows how platformisation is a new strategy of exploitation.

Drawing on the contributions and debates within Humanist Marxism, this book offers a clear and philosophically rich reading of our world that can provide a serious basis for a theory of liberation relevant to our times. It will be vital reading for researchers and post-graduate students with interests in Marxism, social and political thought, alternatives to capitalism and political philosophy.

Connections and Transformations in Early Europe examines the diverse economic, social, and symbolic practices of Iron Age and early medieval societies in northern, western, and central Europe, offering fresh insights into the innovative processes of the 1st millennium BC and AD.

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of connectivity, mobility, urbanism, and visual worlds in early European societies. Through regional case studies, including the British Isles, Germany, Poland, the Lower Rhine Valley, and Denmark, readers gain a deeper understanding of how social identities were communicated and urban centers emerged. With contributions from leading scholars, it delivers valuable theoretical reflections supported by the latest research and discoveries, underscoring the transformative nature of these regions during the 1st millennium.

Providing a lasting tribute to Peter S. Wells, whose influence continues to shape the study of prehistoric and early historic Europe, this book is for students and researchers of late prehistoric and early historic Europe during the final millennium BC and the 1st millennium AD.

This book explores ethnogenesis, integration in host societies and bonding in the Indian diaspora of Girmitiyas - a population of over 1.3 million British-Indian indentured labourers recruited in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
to work in plantation colonies across Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. Focusing on Girmitiya communities in Suriname, Guyana, Mauritius and Fiji, it examines both the similarities and divergences in their ethnic formation, integration into host societies, and diasporic bonding. Theoretically, it contributes to the underexplored but vital themes of ethnogenesis, integration and diaspora connections, highlighting variations within and across communities. It traces how ethnic identities emerged in different contexts and how these groups negotiated ties with both their adopted homelands and the wider Indian diaspora. Drawing on comparative insights, it provides a unique framework for analysing community evolution across geographic and cultural boundaries. Empirically, the book offers detailed historical accounts of the Girmitiyas in four societies, marking a significant departure from the largely single-country focus of existing literature. By presenting a comparative and transnational perspective, it moves beyond plantation narratives to situate Girmitiya communities within broader social, cultural and political histories. This volume represents a valuable contribution to the social sciences and humanities, particularly in the fields of ethnic studies, peasant studies,
diaspora studies, and the analysis of plural societies.

This volume traces the experiences of seven African American abolitionists who travelled to Ireland during the tumultuous years after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Eli Stokes, William Allen, Isaac Davison, William Mitchell, William Troy, James Cheeney Thompson, and Robert Maxwell Johnson.

Despite their diverse life stories, many of these visitors shared deeply held evangelical beliefs, with the ambition to save souls being central to their mission. This aspiration resonated in an era when Christianity and civilisation were widely conflated. Although this book focuses on these seven men - clergy, academics, lecturers - it also examines their interactions with other activists, authors, and actors, and how they negotiated the complex intersections of politics, culture, religion, race, ethnicity, physical appearance and gender. Moreover, through the involvement of Canada and Africa, notably Liberia, they gave the abolition movement a transnational presence. Each of these abolitionists attracted extensive press coverage during their time overseas, and three published successful biographies, yet they have largely faded from view in the historiography. Nonetheless, individually and collectively their contributions to ending enslavement and to Black advancement were considerable.

This book will be of value to students and scholars interested in modern European history and social and cultural history.

Community colleges serve as vital pathways to educational advancement for historically underserved communities, yet they often grapple with persistent challenges related to racial inequity, exclusion, and climate issues that hinder the success of diverse students and employees. This book brings together evidence-based scholarship to confront these pressing issues, offering critical analyses and actionable solutions. It begins with a comprehensive exploration of racial inequities in America's community colleges and traces the evolution of racial equity scholarship within the field. Subsequent chapters delve into key topics, including student-faculty interactions at Hispanic-Serving Institutions, the introduction of Racelighting Impact Theory to illuminate the experiences of students and educators, and the dual role of white faculty in disrupting or perpetuating white innocence. Additional contributions include a QuantCrit analysis of academic momentum among Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander students, an examination of institutional barriers faced by women of color faculty, enrollment strategies informed by Black and Latine student voices, and a rigorous review of three decades of racial climate research that identifies new directions for future studies. Together, these chapters provide a bold, timely, and research-driven roadmap for advancing racial equity across America's community colleges.

This book covers topics such as higher education, sociology, racial equity, institutional leadership, and diversity, making it essential for scholars, educators, policymakers, and administrators in community colleges. It also serves as a valuable resource for researchers, graduate students, and practitioners seeking strategies to address systemic inequities and promote inclusivity in education.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Community College Journal of Research and Practice.