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Violence and Mental Health
Violence is one of the most important challenges, not only for public health systems, but also for public mental health. Violence can have immediate as well as long-term and even transgenerational effects on the mental health of its victims. This book provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging assessment of the mental health legacy left by violence. It addresses the issues as they affect states, communities and families, in other words at macro-, meso- and microlevels, beginning by describing the impact of violence on neurobiology and mental health, as well as the spectrum of syndromes and disorders associated with different forms of violence. The work moves on to tackle violence at the inter...
Facing Cancer Together: Current Research and Future Perspectives on Psychosocial, Relational, and Intervention Approaches for Couples
In recent decades a growing number of studies have described cancer as a “we-disease”. Patients with cancer as well as intimate partners experienced psychological distress. Studies displayed that various relational factors (e.g., attachment style, mutuality, etc.) such as diverse close relationship processes (e.g., dyadic coping, communication, shared-decision making, etc.) have an impact on individual (e.g., physical and psychological health, quality of life) and dyadic (e.g., marital quality and satisfaction, sexual and reproductive health, etc.) outcomes. Thus, programs reducing psychological distress and enhancing dyadic processes were developed.
Constructions of Victimhood
The post-war Federal Republic of Germany faced the task of addressing the plight of the victims of state socialism under the Soviet occupation of eastern Germany and in the German Democratic Republic, many of whom fled to the west. These victims were not passive objects of the West German state’s policy, but organized themselves into associations that fought for recognition of their contribution to the fight against communism. After German unification, the task of commemorating and compensating these victims continued under entirely new political circumstances, yet also in the context of global trends in memory politics and transitional justice that give priority to addressing the fate of ...
Weiterleben nach politischer Haft in der DDR
English summary: Around 200,000 people in the Soviet Occupied Zone and in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) were subjected to politically motivated persecution and imprisonment. The repressive measures they suffered were phyiscally and mentally traumatizing and had a long-term affect on personal and family developments in their later lives. In this research project, the authors examined the health status and social situation of the former prisoners many years after their imprisonment, and the results are presented in this volume. They describe not only the construction and staging of the political persecution, the circumstances under which they were imprisoned and their long-term mental a...
Jehovas Zeugen in Europa - Geschichte und Gegenwart
Ein Vierteljahrhundert nach dem Ende des Kalten Krieges stehen wir erneut vor einer geteilten Welt, in der der freiheitlich-liberale Westen in zähem Ringen Schritt für Schritt vor autoritären Staaten zurückweicht. Diese stellen sich ohne unabhängige Rechtsprechung wieder als historisch-politische Alternative zu den beispielhaften Errungenschaften der demokratischen Verfassungsstaaten dar. Dabei treten sie die einst mühsam errungenen Freiheitsrechte mit Füßen – am stärksten wohl die erste aller Freiheiten: die Religionsfreiheit. Die faktische Ohnmacht des Europäischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte lässt alle Aussichten auf einen abermaligen Umschwung als Illusion erscheinen. Die Geschichte von Jehovas Zeugen in Europa zeigt exemplarisch bis in die Gegenwart, wie eine Religionsgemeinschaft ohne Rückhalt bei der Staatsmacht seit ihrem Bestehen dafür kämpfen muss, ihren Glauben öffentlich leben zu dürfen.
Easy Language – Plain Language – Easy Language Plus
This book shows how accessible communication, and especially easy-to-understand languages, should be designed in order to become instruments of inclusion. It examines two well-established easy-to-understand varieties: Easy Language and Plain Language, and shows that they have complementary profiles with respect to four central qualities: comprehensibility, perceptibility, acceptability and stigmatisation potential. The book introduces Easy and Plain Language and provides an outline of their linguistic, sociological and legal profiles: What is the current legal framework of Easy and Plain Language? What do the texts look like? Who are the users? Which other groups are involved in the production and use of Easy and Plain Language offers? Which qualities are a hazard to acceptability and, thus, enhance their stigmatisation potential? The book also proposes another easy-to-understand variety: Easy Language Plus. This variety balances the four qualities and is modelled in the present book.
