Age groups and generations

Johnson addresses ethical issues in aging in a variety of contexts-the social cultural environment, physical health care, mental health care, social health care, legal care, and spiritual care.

For the uninitiated, the quinceaera celebrates the passage of a fifteen-year-old girl into adulthood: It's a bit bat mitzvah with a dash of debutante ball, and loaded with the same potential for hilarity and adolescent angst.

What is age?

Emotionally competent children and young adults are able to recognize emotions in themselves and others and articulate them verbally, expressing their feelings and, if necessary, regulating them.

Humans are lovers, and yet a good deal of pedagogical theory, Christian or otherwise, assumes an anthropology at odds with human nature, fixed in a model of humans as "e;thinking things.

Thirty-five million Americans are living beyond the age of sixty-five, a twenty-five year increase in life expectancy since 1900.

Accompanying the English for Everyone Junior: Beginner's Course, this beautifully illustrated workbook features more than 1,000 vocabulary and grammar exercises for children starting to learn English as a foreign language.

Based on proven theory and real-life experience, this guidebook provides a one-stop resource for educators, librarians, and storytellers looking to introduce storytelling programs for young adults.

Imagining Care brings literature and philosophy into dialogue by examining caregiving in literature by contemporary Canadian writers alongside ethics of care philosophy.

Measuring the Mosaic is a comprehensive intellectual biography of John Porter (1921-1979), author of The Vertical Mosaic (1965), preeminent Canadian sociologist of his time, and one of Canada's most celebrated scholars.

Are you struggling to connect with your child now that they've left the nest?

What was it really like growing up in the 1940s?

Drawing across Games Studies, Childhood Studies, and Children's Literature Studies, this book redirects critical conversations away from questions of whether videogames are 'good' or 'bad' for child-players and towards questions of how videogames produce childhood as a set of social roles and rules in contemporary Western contexts.

How does culture affect child-rearing practices?

Introduces specific methods for parents and for therapists on how to teach parents to control difficult and oppositional adolescents.

Follow nine young people as they move from racially isolated elementary and middle schools to a diverse - yet internally segregated - neighborhood high school.

Media and the American Child summarizes the research on all forms of media on children, looking at how much time they spend with media everyday, television programming and its impact on children, how advertising has changed to appeal directly to children and the effects on children and the consumer behavior of parents, the relationship between media use and scholastic achievement, the influence of violence in media on anti-social behavior, and the role of media in influencing attitudes on body image, sex and work roles, fashion, & lifestyle.

FROM THE FOUNDER OF THE GLOBAL 1000 HOURS OUTSIDE MOVEMENTThe average American now spends just four to seven minutes outside each day, while we spend four to seven hours using devices with screens.

This book is a social-emotional education manual for middle and high school educators.

As Diana surveyed her newborn baby's face, languid body, and absent cry, she knew something was wrong.

This book is the first to compare the Asiatic Generation Z (born 1990-1995) in terms of country and culture specific drivers and characteristics based on interdisciplinary and international scientific research.

Wie können Jugendliche Krisen erfolgreich überwinden?

Enormous advances in our knowledge of genetic contributions to aging and disease, and in our understanding of the potential for manipulation of the aging process, have taken place during the past 20 years.

Children - white and black, northern and southern - endured a vast and varied range of experiences during the Civil War.

For anyone studying childhood or families, a consideration of the state may not always seem obvious, yet a good critical knowledge of politics, social policy and social theory is vital to understanding their impacts upon families' everyday lives.

Focuses on behavioral and pharmacologic interventions for depression, treatments of late-life insomnia, behavior interventions in nursing homes, interventions for incontinence, and home modification interventions.

This handbook integrates and discusses a growing evidence base concerning individual development across middle and late adulthood.

How well do the places where we live support the wellbeing of older adults?

Those working within the field of applied behavior analysis (ABA) encounter potential ethical dilemmas on a daily basis.

Children and Crime offers a multidisciplinary and research-based approach to the study of child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency.

This book brings together in a single volume concrete applications of play therapy by seasoned clinicians from various theoretical perspectives.

Children today grow up in an increasingly volatile, complex and uncertain world.

The concept of culture has gained considerable attention within the humanities and social sciences in general, and this is certainly true in the field of gerontology.

Clear and concise, The Handbook of Structured Life Review synthesizes 30 years of research and practice using the Structured Life Review process.

Child and Adolescent Online Risk Exposure: An Ecological Perspective focuses on online risks and outcomes for children and adolescents using an ecological perspective (i.

Parenting is difficult under the best of circumstances--but extremely daunting when humanity faces cataclysmic annihilation.

Many of us are fast approaching the "e;golden years"e; of retirement, wondering with fear - and hope - what the future holds for us.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of vision problems in children with developmental disabilities such as AD/HD, autism spectrum disorders, and specific learning disabilities.

All teens today, born after 2000, were thrust into a world with challenges and opportunities non-existent for previous generations.

This volume aims to bridge the disciplinary gap between tourism studies and aging studies.

Help Your Child or Teen Get Back on Track offers specific self-help interventions and a wide-ranging, practical discussion of the types of professional help available for a child or adolescent with emotional and behavioral problems.

This book clearly distinguishes the function of beginning nursing home social workers and provides information and resources essential for them.

Children can and do survive cancer; the last decade has seen many major advancements in treatment.

Understand how multigenerational family relationships can benefit all generations!

A Childs History of England is a book by Charles Dickens.

In Animals as Legal Beings, Maneesha Deckha critically examines how Canadian law and, by extension, other legal orders around the world, participate in the social construction of the human-animal divide and the abject rendering of animals as property.