In response to the growing importance of patient-centred care, the need to empower patients and to democratize specialized knowledge in healthcare, this book puts patients centre stage and provides concepts, methods and learning materials to enhance effective communication with patients and relatives in healthcare settings.

This volume is an accessible overview of autistic relationships from the early years through to old age. This much-needed book combines the latest research findings with first-hand accounts to offer insight into the relationships of autistic people and how they differ to those of non-autistic people in a range of ways.

Arturo Ezquerro and María Cañete present a captivating journey through human development, group lives and group attachment from infancy all the way into old age. Co-constructed with anthropological, psychosocial, cultural and clinical research, this book offers an exciting outlook on attachment and group analysis.

For decades outsourcing has been a major international phenomenon in business. Information Technology represents a unique case for outsourcing both in terms of benefits and potential pitfalls. Accessible and cutting-edge, this book provides a practical perspective on this important and far-reaching challenge in IT management.

Populist Parties and Democratic Resilience focuses on populist parties as the main agents of populism and examines when these parties turn anti-democratic and when they remain loyal to the democratic system.

This revised and updated edition offers a comprehensive account of the latest research and practice issues relating to perfectionism in sport, dance, and exercise. The new edition includes the latest understanding of perfectionism, its benefits and costs, and support that can be given to those at risk to the perils of perfectionism.

Catastrophes unsettle our safe places within the world. As such, they provide an interesting site to analyze the intersection of our affective and political lives.

The Politics of Replacement explores current demographic conspiracy theories and their entanglement with different forms of racism and exclusionary politics such as sexism.

Foregrounding the work professional communicators do to support public health and social missions, this book examines how the principles and practices of public relations can be applied by nonprofit, government, and corporate entities working to understand and improve public health and social conditions.

Death, Dying and Palliative Care in Children and Young People examines the issues relevant to children and young people living with serious illness and their families by taking a closer look at the literature and knowledge around the processes of care, health, well-being and development through a health psychology lens.