1. Mindfulness Training: A Promising Approach for Addressing the Needs of Child Welfare System Children and Families2. Overcoming Modernity: Western and Japanese Attempts3. The Non-Ideal Conditions of Transitional Justice with a Case-Study on the Caretaker Government of Bangladesh4. Democratic Failings, Successes and Prospects in the European Union: Transnational Deliberative Democracy and the Social Open Method of Coordination5. Housing Design and Safety for the Elderly6. Achievements in Reducing Infant Mortality in a Newly Industrialized Country: Lessons from Taiwan7. Adolescents in Foster Care and Their Attachment-Security to Significant Others: A One-Year Longitudinal Study8. Personal Assistance Services (PAS) in the Workplace: Where We Are and Where We Are Going9. What If the Embryo Is Not a Person?*10. Mapping a Multifaceted Relationship: Political Parties and Civil Society Organizations in Turkey11. Angels and Saints: The Rhetorical Effects of Lay Understandings of Foster Care upon Carers12. Perspectives of Home Enteral Nutrition Therapy in Brazil13. Urbanization: Causes, Economic Effects and Environmental Effects on Mental Health in Asia