Evelin Witruk is a full professor of Educational and Rehabilitation Psychology at the University of Leipzig. The co-editors, Shally Novita, Yumi Lee, and Dian Sari Utami, are team members of the international Department of Educational and Rehabilitation Psychology at the University of Leipzig.

The main topics of this book relate to dyslexia, traumatic experiences, strain and stress experiences, and some special methodical problems regarding qualitative research methods. The international and interdisciplinary team includes authors from Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Morocco, Sudan, South Africa, South Korea, Iran, China, Portugal, and Germany.

Contents: Evelin Witruk: Dyslexia - New Perspectives on an Old Phenomenon - Shally Novita/Evelin Witruk: Emotional Consequences of Children with Dyslexia: An Overview from a Cross-cultural Perspective - Regine Eichhorn: Secondary Symptoms and Compensation - Mechanisms of Dyslexic Children - Yumi Lee/Julia Strobel/Evelin Witruk: Teachers' Knowledge about Dyslexia: A Cross-cultural Comparison Study between Germany and South-Korea - Samudra Senarath: Teachers' Knowledge about Dyslexia in Sri Lanka - Buddhiprabha D. D. Pathirana: Rainbow Forever: Recommendations and Suggestions for Potential Psychosocial Interventions to Sri Lankan Children with Dyslexia - Ouafa Raziq: Legasthenie in der marokkanischen Gesellschaft (Dyslexia in the Moroccan Society) - Adil Ishag: Diglossische Aspekte beim Arabischlernen (Diglossic Aspects in Arabic Language Learning) - Guangshu Gu/Dian Sari Utami: Family Elements of Reading Problems among Children in a Chinese Environment - Zarina Akbar/Evelin Witruk: Coping Strategies and Disaster Experience Predict Post-traumatic Growth Survivors of Disaster in Yogyakarta Province Indonesia - Gunendra R. K. Dissanayake: Trauma Never Ending: The Impact of Different Forms of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) on Women's Psychological Well-being - Asanka Bulathwatta: Trauma among University Students in Sri Lanka and Germany - Verbra Pfeiffer/Sivakumar Sivasubramaniam: First Year Students: Using Expressive Writing to Cope with Trauma - Juliet Roudini/Evelin Witruk: Consequences of Trauma Experience in Iran and some Middle East Countries - Hamidreza Khankeh/Amin Saberinia/Davoud Khorasani-Zavareh/Ali Ardalan/Maryam Nakhaei/Maryam Ranjbar: Emergency and Disaster Health Provision in Iran: Challenges and Achievements - Nadia Hanum/Konrad Reschke: Indonesian Driver's Behavior: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after Accident caused by Bad Driving Practice - Dian Sari Utami/Guangshu Gu: Families in Trauma: Potential Problems and Determinant Factors of Parent-Child Relationship in China and Indonesia - Konrad Reschke: 20 Jahre Traumaforschung an der Leipziger Universität: Zur Entwicklung diagnostischer und therapeutischer Techniken (20 Years of Research on Trauma at the University of Leipzig: Development of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques) - Dian Veronika Sakti Kaloeti/Evelin Witruk: Prison Parenting Rehabilitation Programs as a way to Reduce Traumatic Experience Caused by Parental Incarceration - Yumi Lee/Yun-Hee Kim/Ji-Hye Kang/Hyeong-Keun Yu: Postvention is Prevention: Helping Students Bereaved by Suicide in Korean Schools - Marcus Stueck: Ten Steps of Stress Reduction: The Intercultural Adapted Version of Training of Stress Reduction with Elements of Relaxation (STRAIMY®-International) - Edgar Galindo: An Intervention Program for Children with School Failure Problems - Bodo Krause: Methodische Entwicklungen in der qualitativen Persönlichkeitsforschung (Method Development in Qualitative Personality Research) - Hamidreza Khankeh/Maryam Ranjbar: Conducting Qualitative Research in Health - Yumi Lee/Therese Thuemler: A Content-analysis of Korean and German Teachers' Perception and Belief regarding Students with ADHD: A Comparison with US Findings.

This book focuses on dyslexia and traumatic experiences. It strives towards fostering a scientific exchange that promotes emergence of synergy effects and real progress in the understanding of dyslexia, psychological trauma, and stress experiences, as well as special methodological problems of qualitative research. The international and interdisciplinary team includes authors from Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Morocco, Sudan, South Africa, South Korea, Iran, China, Portugal, and Germany. The main topics of the book relate to dyslexia with some new perspectives on this old phenomenon, to traumatic experiences, to intervention methods and to some special methodical problems, particularly in qualitative research methods.