Psychology of ageing

In diesem Herausgeberwerk werden Interventionsansätze zur Gesundheitsförderung bei der Arbeit vorgestellt.

This collection brings together two areas of research that are currently receiving great attention in both scientific and public spheres: cognitive aging and bilingualism.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

'This comforting memoir will help us all feel less alone as we navigate the emotional turmoil of midlife' Davina McCall, author of MenopausingFrom the bestselling author of 'Mum, What's Wrong With You?

El envejecimiento exitoso es un tema en el que es posible encontrar abundante literatura, así como sobre los problemas de salud asociados con esta etapa de la vida; sin embargo, es más difícil encontrar textos actualizados sobre los aspectos psicosociales del cuidado de los ancianos enfermos y en situación de dependencia.

'An incredibly useful take on facing grief as a young person' CARIAD LLOYD'Brilliantly, brilliantly written .

This book brings together theologians, clergy, people with dementia, carers, clinicians and others to offer a holistic, interdisciplinary exploration of dementia which focuses not only on what dementia is and what it is not, but more importantly, what it means to live well with dementia and to find hope where sometimes it feels like there is no hope.

Wohlbefinden im Alter ist kein Zufall!

What if the most frustrating parts of the female body-period pain, pregnancy risks, menopause-weren't flaws, but features shaped by evolution?

Drawing on Scripture, church history, and his own story, Shane Claiborne explores how a passion for social justice issues surrounding life and death--such as war, gun ownership, the death penalty, racial injustice, abortion, poverty, and the environment--intersects with our faith as we advocate for life in its totality.

In Würde alt werden.

An introduction to ethics that will help Christians rediscover a moral reasoning rooted in Scripture and navigate the ethical crises of our time.

In the 1980s there was growing interest in the topic of ageing and learning disabilities, for two principal reasons.

Advances in the Psychobiology of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms features international experts from the fields of psychobiology, sleep research and chronobiology to address and review cutting-edge scientific literature concerning recent advances in the psychobiology of sleep, sleep disorders, such as sleep apnoea and insomnia, and circadian rhythms, across the lifespan.

Learn to leverage privilege.

God does not suggest, he commands that we do justice.

When Bowen was a student and practitioner of classical psychoanalysis at the Menninger Clinic, he became engrossed in understanding the process of schizophrenia and its relationship to mother-child symbiosis.

Dawn of Memories is a journey into the realm of early recollections of childhood and a search for the meaning of the remembrances.

Why the meaning of sin changed radically during the first centuries of ChristianityAncient Christians invoked sin to account for an astonishing range of things, from the death of God's son to the politics of the Roman Empire that worshipped him.

Although all recorded societies have contained a few people of extreme old age, they have been the exception rather than the rule.

At the beginning of the 1980s, the previous few decades had been characterised by a 'population explosion' amongst the older age groups.

This book invites its readers to an exploration of some of the greatest theologians in Christian history through the lens of disability theology in order to understand how the Christian Church is intended to deal with the ever-evolving concept and reality that is the disabled human experience.

Aging, Health and Technology takes a problem-centered approach to examine how older adults use technology for health.

The African-American community represents a paradox of sorts.

The Peaceable Kingdom Series is a multivolume series that seeks to challenge the pervasive violence assumed necessary in relation to humans, nonhumans, and the larger environment.

This book develops a care justice framework to critique and disrupt current policies and reframe a policy blueprint for elevating a just organization of care for unpaid family caregivers and underpaid home care workers assisting older adults.

Armies know all about killing.

This book briefly characterizes the many different ways Christianity is currently understood and practiced.

An ethics of timing--each moment in time requires a responsible answer.

Rather than embracing the conflict around gay relationships as an opportunity for the church to talk honestly about human sexuality, Christians continue to hurt one another with the same tired arguments that divide us along predictable political battle lines.

What is faith?

In the fall of 1964, Trappist monk Thomas Merton prepared to host an unprecedented gathering of peace activists.

In December 2012, the U.

Does social justice promote Christian unity?

The discussions about subject and validation in our late modernity tend to oscillate between the "e;weak"e; self of postmodernity ("e;empty"e; or "e;rhetorical"e;) and neo-Cartesian versions trying, as they do, to recover a discredited foundation.

This book of essays asks the enduring, age-old question, "e;If God is loving and good, why is there so much evil?

Prison ministry needs to be reevaluated.

Beth Williams is a substitute teacher assigned to Springfield High School.

A contribution to the end of the Church knowing itself as the body of Christ.

Despite the fact that 99 percent of us work for a living and although work shapes us to the core, class and labor are topics that are underrepresented in the work of scholars of religion, theology, and the Bible.

What does climate change have to do with religion and spirituality?

Faith and Oil tells the story of conservative Christianity's relationship with America's oil industry.

The earth is the Lord's, says Psalm 24.

One of the biggest challenges for relations between religions is the view of the religious Other.

Follow the author's odyssey of the mind in his endless search for God and meaning in life, as well as his plea for moral action in the uncertainty, discord, and chaos of a world that appears callous and cruel and is prone to political exploitation of vulnerable people, cultures, and countries of our shared planet.

Reconciliation is at the heart of the Christian faith.

Throughout his ministry, Jesus spoke frequently and unabashedly on the now-taboo subject of money.

This book draws Soren Kierkegaard and Luce Irigaray into conversation on the nature and ethics of sexual difference.

Human embryos, it has been said, "e;have no muscles, nerves, digestive system, feet, hands, face, or brain; they have nothing to distinguish them as a human being, and if one of them died, no one would mourn as they would for one of us.

The overall problem raised in this book is that the Western culture of modern rationality, power, and economics departs from a rather narrow, secular and ego-centric worldview.