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Art on prescription: Practice and evidence (2022)
Book Chapter
Holt, N., Matthews, J., & Elliot, C. (in press). Art on prescription: Practice and evidence. In P. Crawford, & P. Kadetz (Eds.), Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Health Humanities. (1). Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26825-1

Art on prescription is one pathway in social prescribing schemes that typically involves referrals to visual arts programmes (rather than to activities such as dance, music or creative writing) (Crone et al., 2018; van der Venter & Buller, 2015). Soc... Read More about Art on prescription: Practice and evidence.

Empathy, intersubjectivity, and the world-orienting other (2022)
Book Chapter
Keane, N. (2022). Empathy, intersubjectivity, and the world-orienting other. In A. Bortolan, & E. Magrì (Eds.), Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and the Social World: The Continued Relevance of Phenomenology (165-186). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110698787-009

This chapter addresses the self-other relation through Husserl's account of empathy and phenomenological encounter. While respecting the centrality and importance of the first-person character of subjective consciousness in Husserl's phenomenology, t... Read More about Empathy, intersubjectivity, and the world-orienting other.

The evolution of the community psychology festival (2022)
Book Chapter
Hadjiosif, M., & Desai, M. (2022). The evolution of the community psychology festival. In The Palgrave Handbook of Innovative Community and Clinical Psychologies (223-238). Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71190-0_12

November 2014 saw the inaugural British Psychological Society (BPS) Community Psychology Festival. The BPS Community Psychology Section Committee had a vision of an accessible, inclusive alternative to an academic conference, which materialised as a... Read More about The evolution of the community psychology festival.

Understanding personal lives: After individualisation (2022)
Book Chapter
Duncan, S., & Carter, J. (2022). Understanding personal lives: After individualisation. In S. Quaid, C. Hugman, & A. Wilcock (Eds.), Negotiating families and personal lives in the 21st Century: Exploring diversity, social change and inequalities. Routledge

This chapter will centrally address the second aim of the collection – to explore innovative theoretical approaches to understanding personal life. It will also seek to disrupt ‘normative’ idealisations - those made by individualisation theorists.... Read More about Understanding personal lives: After individualisation.

Salutogenesis in Prison (2022)
Book Chapter
Woodall, J., De Viggiani, N., & South, J. (2022). Salutogenesis in Prison. In The Handbook of Salutogenesis (553-561). (2nd). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79515-3_51

This chapter concludes Part VII, with a focus on salutogenesis in prisons. In this chapter, the authors present and debate how prison health rhetoric, policy and practice are influenced by a pathogenic view of prisoner “health.” The authors comment t... Read More about Salutogenesis in Prison.

Expanding interventions to integrate men who have sexually offended back into the community: Circles of support and accountability in Europe (2022)
Book Chapter
McCartan, K., Hoing, M., & Taylor, R. (2022). Expanding interventions to integrate men who have sexually offended back into the community: Circles of support and accountability in Europe. In K. Uzieblo, W. J. Smid, & K. McCartan (Eds.), Challenges in the Management of People Convicted of a Sexual Offence: A Way Forward. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80212-7

The way that we prevent as well as respond to sexual offending is at a crossroads as we are starting to talk in a new language, with a blended health and justice framework, but we are grounded in a punitive system. Where do we go from this point? How... Read More about Expanding interventions to integrate men who have sexually offended back into the community: Circles of support and accountability in Europe.

Translating the sexual abuse evidence base into effective policy and practice (2022)
Book Chapter
McCartan, K. (2022). Translating the sexual abuse evidence base into effective policy and practice. In K. Uzieblo, W. J. Smid, & K. McCartan (Eds.), Challenges in the Management of People Convicted of a Sexual Offence: A Way Forward. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80212-7

The development of policy, especially criminal justice policy, is often fraught and divisive with a plethora of short-term solutions to long-term problems. This chapter is going to discuss the challenges of policymaking in the arena of sexual offendi... Read More about Translating the sexual abuse evidence base into effective policy and practice.

Introduction: For a psychosocial approach to the lockdown (2022)
Book Chapter
Ellis, D., & Voela, A. (2022). Introduction: For a psychosocial approach to the lockdown. In D. Ellis, & A. Voela (Eds.), After Lockdown, Opening Up (3-25). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80278-3_1

This introductory chapter locates the volume in the Social Sciences and in Psycho-social Studies, defines the scope of the examination of the pandemic in each contribution and contextualizes the concept of ‘opening up’ with reference to Psychoanalysi... Read More about Introduction: For a psychosocial approach to the lockdown.

Solidarity today: A problem-based approach (2021)
Book Chapter
Tava, F. (2021). Solidarity today: A problem-based approach. In M. Cojocaru, D. Finkelde, J. Wallacher, A. Filipovic, & M. Reder (Eds.), Jahrbuch Praktische Philosophie in globaler Perspektive: Schwerpunkt: Solidarität am Scheideweg (65-85). Freiburg, München: Verlag Karl Alber

This chapter aims at establishing a problem-based approach to solidarity by describing its main characteristics and by testing its effectiveness in light of three pivotal issues today: immigration, the future of work, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The c... Read More about Solidarity today: A problem-based approach.

Exploring the complexities of pain: Why it isn't “all in your head” (2021)
Book Chapter
McKay, C., & Tabor, A. (2021). Exploring the complexities of pain: Why it isn't “all in your head”. In C. McKay (Ed.), The Mental Impact of Sports Injury (16). (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Much is known about the physical strain that athletes’ bodies are subjected to and the dangerous aspects of competition immediately spring to mind. But why do athletes train the way they do, and why do they push the limits? Why do some recover well... Read More about Exploring the complexities of pain: Why it isn't “all in your head”.

Queer tango - Bent history? The late-modern uses and abuses of historical imagery showing men dancing tango with other men (2021)
Book Chapter
Batchelor, R., & Mulholland, J. (2021). Queer tango - Bent history? The late-modern uses and abuses of historical imagery showing men dancing tango with other men. In C. Parfitt (Ed.), Cultural Memory and Popular Dance: Dancing to Remember, Dancing to Forget (101-119). Basingstoke UK: Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71083-5_6

Ascend the winding stair to LugarGay, an LGBT Community Centre in Buenos Aires and queer tango venue, and you pass a reproduction of an old photograph of men, wearing aprons, in a market, posing in tango couples. Elsewhere in Buenos Aires, a cropped... Read More about Queer tango - Bent history? The late-modern uses and abuses of historical imagery showing men dancing tango with other men.

Covert aspects of surveillance and the ethical issues they raise (2021)
Book Chapter
Harper, D. J., Ellis, D., & Tucker, I. (2021). Covert aspects of surveillance and the ethical issues they raise. In R. Iphofen, & D. O'Mathúna (Eds.), Ethical Issues in Covert, Security and Surveillance Research, Volume 8 (177-197). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/s2398-601820210000008013

This chapter focusses on the ethical issues raised by different types of surveillance and the varied ways in which surveillance can be covert. Three case studies are presented which highlight different types of surveillance and different ethical conc... Read More about Covert aspects of surveillance and the ethical issues they raise.

Praxis in progress: On the transformations of Kosík’s thought (2021)
Book Chapter
Tava, F. (2021). Praxis in progress: On the transformations of Kosík’s thought. In Karl Kosík and the Dialectics of the Concrete (57-74). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004503243_005

One of the pivotal issues in the thought of Karel Kosík is that of praxis. Although various interpreters have recognised the centrality of this notion and identified its affinity with other theories of praxis drawn from the traditions of Marxism and... Read More about Praxis in progress: On the transformations of Kosík’s thought.

Lives in cages: A media analysis of incarceration experiences across generations on the US-Mexico border (2021)
Book Chapter
Mills, J., Velez Oliveira, R., & Gomes, S. (2021). Lives in cages: A media analysis of incarceration experiences across generations on the US-Mexico border. In S. Gomes, M. João Leote de Carvalho, & V. Duarte (Eds.), Incarceration and Generation. Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82276-7

This chapter examines media narratives on the incarceration experiences of migrant families in detention centers on the US–Mexico border. Past literature analyses perceptions of migrants as a whole or focuses on adult detainees, being there is a la... Read More about Lives in cages: A media analysis of incarceration experiences across generations on the US-Mexico border.

Locked-Down, log-in and slog-on: A technocratic dystopia? (2021)
Book Chapter
Ellis, D. (2021). Locked-Down, log-in and slog-on: A technocratic dystopia?. In D. Ellis, & A. Voela (Eds.), After Lockdown, Opening Up: Psychosocial Transformation in the Wake of COVID-19 (111-127). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80278-3_6

This chapter discusses how some relationships with technology throughout the pandemic were radically enhanced because of social (physical) distancing. It has been said that several years of technological evolution were condensed into a few months. To... Read More about Locked-Down, log-in and slog-on: A technocratic dystopia?.

Intimacies and relationships (2021)
Book Chapter
Twamley, K., & Carter, J. (2021). Intimacies and relationships. In K. Murji, S. Neal, & J. Solomos (Eds.), An Introduction to Sociology. SAGE Publications

This innovative textbook introduces you to the key theories, themes, and concepts in the discipline of sociology and helps you to develop as a sociologist by providing comprehensive coverage of all the main areas of study. Presenting you with the his... Read More about Intimacies and relationships.

Psychological Assessment (2021)
Book Chapter
Paraskeva, N., & Rumsey, N. (2021). Psychological Assessment. In S. Kay, D. McCombe, & D. Wilks (Eds.), Oxford Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Oxford University Press

Although research relating to the psychology of the cosmetic surgery patient is still in its infancy, there is a consensus amongst researchers that various combinations of psychological factors play a key role in the recent increase in demand for cos... Read More about Psychological Assessment.