Age groups and generations

Written with clarity and thoroughly argued, Wyness confirms his place as one of the key authors within contemporary social science writing on children and childhood.

The Passage from Youth to Adulthood explores a society unanchored from culturally endorsed rites of passage, in which young people and adults appear to build their identities within a culture of dependency.

This collection of 12 new and revised essays on child care and children's services, written by leading child welfare historian Roy Parker, draws on his lifetime of research in this area.

This book explores the nexus between children, media, and nature during a time of planetary crisis marked by climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation.

Seven percent of newborns in the United States weigh in at less than five and one half pounds.

"e;[This] book's unfading preoccupation with social context, social processes, and social structures distinguishes itself and greatly contributes to the discourse in gerontology.

In the West, news about the Middle East is dominated by an endless stream of reports and commentary about civil war, sectarian violence, religious extremism, and economic stagnation.

Health, Illness, and Optimal Aging: Biological and Psychosocial Perspectives, Third Edition shows the continuity and advancements in our understanding of human life-span development.

Children are an end and means of progress.

Age at Work explores the myriad ways in which 'age' is at 'work' across society, organizations and workplaces, with special focus on organizations, their boundaries, and marginalizing processes around age and ageism in and across these spaces.

Children and young people with autism have the capacity to be independent and resilient which can help them live independently or be supported to live a fulfilling life and reach their full potential.

An eye-opening exploration of humanity s unprecedented path to global depopulation and why it's in everyone's interests to prevent it.

Intended for young readers interested in creating and maintaining physically and emotionally healthy relationships, this book answers common questions and offers practical guidance on navigating such everyday issues as conflict resolution and jealousy.

This book documents, verifies and brings to life the issues and debates that are created around the aging society.

This book is the first comprehensive ethnographic study of the diversity of living and ageing experiences of three groups of older migrants - return, lifestyle and ageing-in-place labour migrants - from a comparative perspective.

Wherever contemporary therapists offer treatment, whether in social agencies or clinics, in outpatient or inpatient services, or even in private practice, they are likely to find themselves increasingly working with people whose histories are characterized by deprivation and repeated trauma-experiences that have left them feeling damaged, often short of basic trust in others, and lacking confidence in themselves.

Die Soziale Arbeit wirkt auf Menschen unterschiedlichen Alters und auf ihre Lebensbedingungen fördernd, helfend und korrigierend ein.

Winning Cooperation from Your Child provides parents and therapists with a comprehensive, home-based behavioral recovery program for oppositional, defiant, and aggressive children.

This book explores disrupted youth cohesion in France within the context of multiple ongoing global economic, migratory, social, political, and security-related crises.

Winner: Guittard Book Award for Historical ScholarshipDuring the Soviet Unions Great Patriotic War, from 1941 to 1945, as many as 24 million of its citizens died.

In the summer of 1994, a freak lightning and thunder storm explodes on the southern coast of Maine, killing Nancy Bills’s husband and critically wounding her younger son.

Until recently, older men were not a social phenomenon commanding great attention.

This book examines the history of aging and old age during the Qing dynasty, a pivotal period marked by rapid population growth that resulted in the largest elderly population in imperial China.

This book examines after-school programs, exploring how – and why – young people thrive in good programs and suffer in weak ones.

A complete guide to evidence based interventions for children and adolescents The past decade has witnessed the development of numerous interventions proved to be highly effective; several treatments are now considered to be "e;well established"e; or "e;probably efficacious"e; interventions for children.

This up-to-date overview of the fast-moving field of infant development covers all the major areas of interest in terms of research, applications and policy.

This transformative book looks at one of the most undervalued aspects of childhood, joy.

A four year old Mexican American girl is taken away from her parents because she is obese and experiencing health problems related to her weight.

Educating students with disabilities is a team process.

Home parenteral nutrition (HPN) is the intravenous administration of nutrients carried out in the patient's home.

This book examines changes that are likely to impact adolescents'' lives and their futures as adults.

Representations of Youth examines the various constructions of 'youth' and 'adolescence' in recent British and North American research.

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Transportation for the Elderly: Changing Lifestyles, Changing Needs by Martin Wachs offers a groundbreaking analysis of how demographic shifts, health improvements, and evolving social patterns are reshaping mobility among older Americans.

The book sheds light on the transformation of childhood in Singapore, over our many milestones.

If a child is not meeting expected milestones it can be a source of great anxiety for parents and teachers.

Bringing together new, multidisciplinary research, this book explores how children and young people across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas experience and cope with situations of poverty and precarity.

Many providers have difficulty implementing exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy for youth with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), despite it being the leading treatment for this condition.

State-of-the-art developments in multiple new technologies for older adult careGrounded in a unique team-based geriatrics perspective, this book delivers a broad range of current, evidence-based knowledge about innovative technology that has the potential to advance the care and well being of older adults.

Contemporary research on major emotional disorders emphasizes their commonalities rather than their differences.

In Group Filial Therapy (GFT), therapists train parents to conduct play sessions with their own children to help meet children's therapeutic needs, and to transfer appropriate skills to family life.

This book focuses on the dynamic process of aging and on interventions to support the development of older and integrated societies, from a multidisciplinary point of view.

Still the definitive book on the subject, this volume has been thoroughly revised to cover rapidly changing aspects of the economics of aging.

"e;Far from a dictionary, the concepts are portrayed as complex, and conflicting definitions and usages are both noted and evaluated.

What is the difference between a lie and a fantasy, when the subject is a child?

Creative Ageing and the Arts of Care makes a case for cultural participation by older adults to enhance the quality of their lives.

A joyous account of a progressive family's homeschooling experience.

This encyclopedia defines and contextualizes the Baby Boomer generation and the wide-reaching contributions of its members throughout modern American history.