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Lost, Gaslit, Belittled, Tormented: LGBT+ Experiences of Domestic and Sexual Abuse
In recent years, there has been growing acknowledgement of so-called hidden survivors of domestic and sexual violence, specifically those that fall outside of stereotypical conceptualisations of prototypical v...
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Sexism
The chapter discusses the social construction theory of gender by defining differences between sex and gender, sex roles and gender roles, and gender prejudice, discrimination, sexism, and microaggression. It ...
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The Climate Crisis: Where We Stand, What We Know
At the Paris Climate Agreement, the majority of the world agreed to limit global warming to 1.5 °C. Today, we are already at 1.1 °C and the probability of staying below 1.5 °C is considered by scientists to be...
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Sexual Abuse, Safeguarding and Prevention in Sport
This chapter offers a critique of key issues around safeguarding and prevention in relation to sexual abuse in sport. Central to the chapter is a consideration of the prevalence and incidence of sexual abuse i...
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Heterosexism
Heterosexism is the system granting implicit or explicit advantages (e.g., power, control, and rights) to heterosexuals over non-heterosexuals. This means laws, policies, and rules are written to benefit heter...
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Ecological Niches and the Evolution of the Brain
The brain of a species has evolved over evolutionary time periods to adapt to the ecological niche that this species occupies. Due to the climate crisis, many ecological niches are changing rapidly and some ar...
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Preventing & Responding to Campus Sexual Abuse
This chapter will examine UK University's understanding and response to campus-based sexual abuse. It will discuss the extent to which policies, practices, and safeguarding have been developed, whether they ha...
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Disablism/Ableism
Ableism is systemic oppression based on disabilities. It is a system granting advantages for individuals without disabilities over individuals with disabilities. The chapter differentiates ableism and disablis...
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Washed Away: Floods and Other Natural Disasters as Trauma Triggers
Human-induced climate change has led to an increased likelihood of several types of natural disasters in recent years, including wildfires and floods. These are often acutely life-threatening and traumatic for...
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Circles of Support and Accountability: Restorative Outcomes for the Survivor Volunteer
This chapter draws on the experiences of survivor volunteers working with Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA), a community-based initiative that supports the safe reintegration into the community of a...
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Need for Action in Health Care: The time is now!
The healthcare system in Germany is not prepared for the additional strain caused by the climate crisis. Urgent political decisions are needed to equip our healthcare provision for climate-related damages. We ...
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Theory to Practice: Deconstructing Inappropriate Hierarchical, Dichotomous, and Linear Thinking
The main objective of this chapter is introducing how to deconstruct our binary thinking which is the major barrier for our understanding of multicultural competencies and/or DEI to be expressed in our behavio...
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Pupillometry in Schizophrenia: What We Know and Where We Could Go
Pupillometry is a uniquely effective tool for illuminating the mechanisms underlying schizophrenia, an especially heterogeneous and complex disorder. This chapter synthesizes the existing literature on pupillo...
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Introduction
This book is a transdisciplinary study involving relationships between neurobiology, affects and emotions into the frame of Affective Neuroscience, to clarify body-mind queries in a scientific way. Being a tra...
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Achieving a More Informed Understanding of Sexual Abuse Through Working with Perpetrators, as well as Survivors
In this chapter, the authors explore the relationship dynamic that exists between perpetrators, survivors, and therapist. It describes key requirements for formulating more effective interventions, with a need...
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The Locus Coeruleus: Where Cognitive and Emotional Processing Meet the Eye
The pupil offers a window into how arousal shapes the way we think, learn, and behave. Yet, arousal is a complex and multifaceted construct, leaving many open questions about the relationship between pupil siz...
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Culturally Appropriate Assessment
This chapter provides comprehensive assessment techniques in relation to multiple identities and their intersectionality by going back to some of previous experiential learning activities. This time readers ap...
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Using Pupillometry in the Detection of Deception
Pupillometry has a long history in cognitive psychology and psychophysiology. Hess EH and Polt’s JM (Science, 132:349–350, 1960; Science 143:1190–1192, 1964) finding that increases in pupil dilation correspond...
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The Nervous System and the Affective Neural Systems
In terms of neurobiological structures, the nervous system is similar in all mammals. This similarity is even stronger in the subcortical part of the brain, where most of our affects and feelings are generated. T...
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Pupillometry in Developmental Psychology
Pupillometry holds tremendous potential for developmental psychology. The empirical evidence overwhelmingly suggests that psychologically mediated pupil dilation is a real phenomenon in human development. The ...
