This volume explores and challenges the assumption that behavioral proclivities and pathologies are directly traceable to experience, exploring historical and cultural perspectives on behavioral genetics and evolutionary biology, and challenging the clinical utility of the therapeutic narrative.

This book highlights effective evidence-based approaches to nurturing resilience, before, during, and after a traumatic experience. It will be of interest to clinicians, counsellors and researchers involved in the study of building resilience, as well as trauma studies, psychology, and mental health more broadly.

This volume recognizes the need for culturally responsive forms of school counseling and draws on the author’s first-hand experiences of working with students in urban schools in the US, to illustrate how hip-hop culture can be effectively integrated into school counseling to benefit and support students.

Fear and Primordial Trust explores fear as an existential phenomenon and how it can be overcome.