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The research literature on stalking has proliferated in recent years. Even so, gaps remain. This commentary paper introduces a Special Issue on stalkers.

This Special Issue showcases Rachael Wheatley’s mixed methods work with male stalkers. These stalkers were actively engaged in the research process. Importantly, Wheatley’s studies took a phenomenological approach, exploring how these men construed their reality for engaging in stalking behaviour.

This Special Issue highlights many of the factors that may increase the risk that a person becomes a stalker, including disordered attachment, depression, entitlement, emotional regulation, stress management and narcissism.

Taken together, this collection of papers points to a need for practitioners and researchers alike to break out of silos and take a holistic and comprehensive approach to tackling the widespread problem of stalking.

This study used a cross‐sectional survey design to investigate the incidence, experience and impact of stalking and harassment by clients on mental health professionals working in a community forensic mental health service. A response rate of 37% (N = 45) was obtained. A majority of respondents (88.9%) reported being harassed in at least one of the specified ways on at least one occasion. Of these respondents, 42.2% met the operational definition for stalking used by the study. The results support suggestions in the literature that mental health professionals may be at heightened risk of being stalked, and that it has both a personal and a professional impact. The aim of this paper is to describe the study, to highlight the implications for organisational practice, including provision of support and training, and to consider implications for future research.

The purpose of this pilot project is to highlight how food intake, nutrition status and quality of life could be improved for long stay residents of a community nursing unit and demonstrate that assisted feeding can be a more dignified experience for them.

A good dining experience involves not just the food, but also its presentation and the environment in which it is served. A review of the literature identified projects with similar objectives but differing approaches. A survey of residents informed the planning phase. A home style dining room was created with a more traditional ambiance and decoration. The pace of dining was leisurely. Personal choice and independence in eating were supported. A schedule of dining activities was delivered by two staff facilitators.

Eight dining sessions facilitated 23 residents over three months. “Minced” meals were not served, help was given to cut up meat and cues or prompts offered to maximize independence and demonstrate the value of this approach to care staff.

The project illustrated the advantages of stepping outside the purely clinical framework in addressing issues around poor food intake. It highlighted and how small but valuable changes can be implemented even where resources and space is limited. Involvement with the project allowed staff to observe and reflect on the benefits of enhancing the social and aesthetic aspects of dining.

There is an absence of qualitative research with individuals who have stalked. This special issue of articles draws on one study, rich with the meaning-making of experts by experience. That is, people who have stalked, been convicted and detained in UK prisons. The purpose of this issue is to provide forensic practitioners with an overview of current considerations for intervening with individuals who stalk. It does this by drawing together empirically derived interpreted experiences of men who stalk, expanding key discussions with expert practitioners in the field, working with those who stalk. It highlights current thinking on the psychology of stalking and multidisciplinary options for risk management. Furthermore, it provides an overview of necessary future directions.

Research findings from a recent, novel, mixed methods study (Wheatley, 2019 and Wheatleya et al., 2020) are discussed with other experienced stalking practitioners in the UK for reflection and discussion. The papers synthesise the research findings, existing psychological literature and practitioner experience to discuss implications for psychological practice with those who stalk.

The key findings resonated with current practitioners, providing a springboard for expanding thinking around stalking and crucial themes such as narcissistic vulnerability, deterrence, labelling and developing alternative meaningful activities.

In providing this marriage of experiential expert insights, this Special Issue advances the practice of psychology in relation to those who stalk, having clear applications to the processes of risk assessment, intervention and management. Pivotally, how to enhance engagement opportunities to develop working and therapeutic relationships.

This issue introduces new subtopics, some of which have never been written about before. It provides discussion papers marrying research with practitioner experience, with a focus on practical applications within criminal psychology and future directions.

Communications regarding this column should be addressed to Mrs. Cheney, Peabody Library School, Nashville, Term. 37203. Mrs. Cheney does not sell the books listed here. They are available through normal trade sources. Mrs. Cheney, being a member of the editorial board of Pierian Press, will not review Pierian Press reference books in this column. Descriptions of Pierian Press reference books will be included elsewhere in this publication.

While in Art Spiegelman's non-fiction narrative Maus (1980–1991), the voice of the mother Anja is silenced, Eunsung Kim's non-fiction graphic narrative My Mother's Story (2020) revives a mother's voice that has been hardly heard in the history of Korean literature and culture. Just as the narrative in Maus is based on the interview between a son and his father, who has survived the Holocaust or the concentration camp in the Second World War, in My Mother's Story, a mother in her eighties tells the story of her entire life to her daughter. The writer's mother underwent Japanese colonization, the Korean War and the following years of industrial modernization, migrating from one place to another throughout her life. By visualizing a woman's personal memory, which has been forgotten for quite a long time, the Korean graphic narrative incorporates the subjective and subaltern voice into history. Thus, appropriating Michel Foucault's notion of subjectivation, which generally refers to the construction of the individual subject, I would argue that this visualization or revitalization of the silenced voice of the old woman can be called a process of ‘resubjectivation’, or reconstruction of the marginalized and thereby discarded subject of an aged woman in Korea. But this essay is not exactly a comparative study, paralleling the two different graphic narratives together. Instead, it focuses on uncovering ontological meanings of the feminine narrative in Korean culture as the process of resubjectivation involves not only the recovery of an individual woman's lost voice, but it is also related to the retrieval of a lost cultural legacy.

The history of economics has often been described as the “history of economic thought.” In this essay, I explore an alternative perspective that builds on the French tradition of historical epistemology and treats economics as a social practice. I argue that a practice-based view provides a more philosophically robust conception of historiography and a richer field of investigation for historians of economics.

The following is an annotated list of materials dealing with information literacy including instruction in the use of information resources, research, and computer skills related to retrieving, using, and evaluating information. This review, the twenty‐second to be published in Reference Services Review, includes items in English published in 1995. After 21 years, the title of this review of the literature has been changed from “Library Orientation and Instruction” to “Library Instruction and Information Literacy,” to indicate the growing trend of moving to information skills instruction.