Relationship problems relating to sex and desire, including mismatches in desire and how to successfully address these; mismatches in preferred sexual activities and how to address these; the value of couples counselling for all couples.

Spirituality is a deeply personal universal human experience, and people with intellectual disability may miss out on the expression of this vital part of their identity, which is a fundamental human right. An understanding of people with intellectual disability as creative communicators has been gained through action research, but spirituality is still a poorly understood aspect of their lives, giving rise to unmet needs. Outdated practices and beliefs about the origins of disability have led to a culture of exclusion or, at best, tokenism. Around the world, reports are still emerging of marginalization, discrimination and even abuse because of negative spiritual attribution or views about cognitive abilities and consequent economic worth. Faith communities and secular care providers need to incorporate new learning about the importance of spirituality for mental health into mainstream planning of care with the involvement of people with intellectual disabilities who communicate creatively as co-producers.

This chapter presents a simple but working face recognition system, which is based on the nearest neighbor search algorithm. Albeit simple, it is a complete pattern recognition pipeline. We can then examine every component in it, and analyze potential difficulties and pitfalls one may encounter. Furthermore, we introduce a problem-solving framework, which will be useful in the rest of this book and in solving other tasks.

A dispute arose over companies conducting exploratory drilling in a national park as damage was occurring to sites of Indigenous significance. This issue of whether to allow or prohibit the companies’ access to the park had the potential to become a political one so the four relevant government departments were charged with the task of finding a solution. Although the parties found themselves in deadlock over the question of access they nevertheless kept talking and eventually, by listening carefully to what was being said, and how it was being said, new perspectives emerged. It became clear that just one mining company was causing the problems; the real issue for the exploration companies was frustration with delays in getting permits. It took time for this information and these insights to emerge but once they did, it was much easier to find a workable solution that controlled the behaviour of exploration companies and so protected the Indigenous sites within the park. (This negotiation is explored further in the Negotiation in Practice box later in this chapter.) In another negotiation over the purchase of a new management information system, a key issue was timing: the buyer wanted it by June, but the producer believed it would not be ready until November. They agreed to a compromise delivery date of August. As negotiations continued on other issues it transpired that the ‘it’ meant ‘pay for it’ by June, when the buyer’s current budgetary allocation would run out. Had both parties understood this, it would have been relatively easy to establish a trust fund to hold the payment from June, until delivery occurred in November, a much better solution for both parties. (A full account of this case is provided in the at the end of this chapter.)