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Psychotic disorders are a group of severe mental disorders which affects 2-3% of the population and constitutes one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. Early intervention (EI) represents a major paradigm shift in psychiatric service and has been demonstrated to be effective in outcome improvement for first-episode psychosis (FEP) and at-risk mental state (ARMS). However, despite the promising findings, evidence has shown that a significant proportion of early psychosis patients still experience suboptimal clinical outcomes (such as high relapse risk, partial remission, early-onset treatment resistance, persistent negative symptoms, etc.), functional impairment and cognitive dysfun...
Directory of foreign diplomatic officers in Washington.
Transnational Zombie Cinema, 2010 to 2020: Readings in a Mutating Tradition examines selected films produced outside the United States in the second decade of the millennial zombie renaissance, following the global effects of the Great Recession. These readings analyze how the films adapt the zombie myth to localized anxieties pertaining to neoliberal capitalism; globalization; gender and sexuality; national identity, history, and trauma; and self-definition within and without culture and social institutions. In tracing these variations, John R. Ziegler investigates not only better-known films such as South Korea’s Train to Busan (2016) and Cuba’s Juan of the Dead (2011) but also lesser-known examples such as Malaysia’s KL24: Zombies (2017), Italy’s The End? (2017), and India’s Rise of the Zombie (2010). These films, Ziegler argues, demonstrate the continued significance of the zombie as a flexible, powerful tool for thinking about contemporary concerns across the globe and suggest that the zombie myth still has plenty of undead life in it as it continues to mutate and circulate in transnational cinema.
Introduction to international studies provides for a multi-disciplinary approach to the ever-changing political, economic, social and cultural environment in the world during recent decades. This book searches for policy remedies or common solutions that could serve to redefine the future international order so that important universal values such as human well-being, freedom of choice, world peace, human rights, and democracy will be upheld -- Back cover.