It gives us immense pleasure to introduce this research oriented masterpiece book regarding one of the burning issues of Kashmir Valley.The book is the first of its kind in covering the psychological aspects of family members of disappeared persons of Kashmir in a quantitative form.The book starts with a brief and lucid background of disappearances in Kashmir and its impact on family members of disappeared persons. Both positive and negative mental health dimensions were studied thoroughly by using standardised culture sensitive tools.The efficacy of different Psycho-social protective factors particularly religion and self regulation adopted by these survivors in promoting their mental health is also presented in both numerical as well as descriptive form.The book will prove handy for the researchers, students, teachers and writers belonging to the field of human rights violation, international law, mental health workers and NGOs.

Mr. Suhail Ahmad Bhat (Parentage Gh.Qadir Bhat & Sakeena Akhtar)is a Ph.D Scholar from Department of Psychology, University of Kashmir, Srinagar India. The author has passed M.A, M.PHIL, B.ed.& SET degree from the same University. The current research focus of author is on development of intervention model for educating Dyslexic children.