Age groups and generations

The rapidly expanding population of youth gangs and street children is one of the most disturbing issues in many cities around the world.

An innovative look at design solutions for building lifelong neighborhoods Livable Communities for Aging Populations provides architects and designers with critical guidance on urban planning and building design that allows people to age in their own homes and communities.

This book explores the ethnic and racial options exercised by young mixed race people in Britain.

At the core of the author's concern stands the question of cultural transmutation in an era riddled with media channels and all-embracing messages.

The senses are made, not given.

Focused on understanding the key underlying group processes that contribute to youth sport experiences, The Power of Groups in Youth Sport provides an innovative and expansive overview of the research in group dynamics within youth sports.

How are individuals and society ageing towards the end of the twentieth century?

Lynn watched her beloved Clare, newly adopted from Haiti, crawl the house in a frantic search for her lost mother.

The newly retired are entering a time of life that is virtually uncharted, a time in which they are free from social expectations and, to a large extent, from obligations to others.

There are approximately 7 billion people in the world, and 2 billion of them are children.

During World War II, American women entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers, and many of them relied on federally funded child care programs.

What does it mean to practice therapy in an existential way?

Was sich Demenzkranke wünschen und wie wir ihnen diese Wünsche erfüllen können1,5 Millionen Menschen in Deutschland leiden an Demenz, täglich kommen hunderte hinzu.

International adoptions are both high-profile and controversial, with the celebrity adoptions and critically acclaimed movies such as Casa de los babys of recent years increasing media coverage and influencing public opinion.

​In diesem Buch rückt das „gute Leben“ im hohen Alter in den Fokus: So ist in den westlichen Industrienationen ein stetiger Anstieg der allgemeinen Lebenserwartung zu verzeichnen.

Not only does this book offer insights into how to better serve all seniors, but it also provides complete step-by-step instructions for dozens of exciting and engaging programs that can be held both onsite and offsite.

"e;A welcome addition to the literature in this important area of work, that builds on.

This book is an introduction to cosplay as a subculture and community, built around playful spaces and the everyday practices of crafting costumes, identities, and performances.

This book examines mobile media use among children and youths within an Asian context.

There has been significant societal and global change in recent years with accompanying shifts in how older people are perceived by societies across the world.

The Administrative Challenges of (Play) Therapy brings together essays by eight therapists who tell the stories their career paths in the fields of social work and psychology, specializing in children and family therapy .

What does a free-spirited, fifty-something professional do when she breaks up with her non-committal boyfriend and longs for a life partner?

This book provides a picture of the abuse of older adults, organized by World Health Region and locating the problem within an area's historic and present societal treatment of older persons.

This volume explores and compares linguistic practices among young people in linguistically and culturally diverse urban spaces.

International adoptions are both high-profile and controversial, with the celebrity adoptions and critically acclaimed movies such as Casa de los babys of recent years increasing media coverage and influencing public opinion.

Presents an in-depth look at children who have experienced the near-death phenomenon and the heightened abilities that these children exhibit*; Provides compelling evidence for the existence of a generation of children who represent the spiritual evolution of the human race*; Includes firsthand testimonies of children who have returned from near deathThe New Children and Near-Death Experiences is the first book to provide--from the view of the child--an in-depth study of children who have experienced the near-death phenomenon and its aftereffects.

This accessible book explores what friendship is and why it's so important to our well-being and provides practical suggestions for teens and young adults wishing to experience deeper, more fulfilling connections.

This ground-breaking book focuses on the experiences and perspectives of children and young people who care for a parent with HIV in the global North and South.

[A] useful reference book.

Eliza Fricker gets it.

This book investigates young children's everyday digital practices, embodied digital play, and digital media products - such as mobile applications, digital games, and software tools.

This book illuminates the complex relationship between social media, identity, and youth in the Global South.

This book includes CRS reports from 2017 to 2018 and is focused on children's issues, such as unaccompanied alien children (UAC) runaway and homeless youth, the DACA Program as well as recent privacy and security issues associated with the increasing number of smart toys being created for children.

Meet Max - a boy with Tourette syndrome (TS).

In vielen ostdeutschen Familien wird bis heute nicht unbefangen über das Leben in der DDR gesprochen.

This book provides an analysis of childrens play across many different cultural communities around the globe.

This collection brings together perspectives drawn from a range of international scholars who have conducted research into the applications of neo-tribal theory.

Werte spielen in unserem Leben eine wichtige Rolle.

Interviewers face a dilemma when questioning children in a forensic context--an inherent mismatch between the needs of the legal system and the capabilities of young children.

This book explores one way in which recent hardware and software advances have placed humanity on the precipice of a significant shift in how technology can shape our interactions with the world around us: the application of transformative extended reality (XR) technology solutions to support the health, wellness, quality of life, and independence of older adults living with and without cognitive impairments.

Remote Fieldwork Supervision for BCBA(R) Trainees prepares BCBAs for supervising certification candidates, providing structure, scope, and sequence for supervision, as well as tactical recommendations for providing independent fieldwork supervision in a distance context.

The renowned #1 New York Times bestselling authors share their advice and expertise with parents and teens in this accessible, indispensable guide to surviving adolescence.

Tracing the life course of American teenagers in the mid-twentieth century, Into One's Own presents a compelling historical portrait of growing up.

In this interdisciplinary book, experts from philosophy, medicine, law, psychology, economics, and social sciences address questions and develop solutions for a well-designed society of long life.

This is the best book on the market for taking students from 'how children acquire their first language' to the point where they can engage with key debates and current research in the field of child language.

This lively and revealing study explores a sociologically invisible but important social relationship: girls' friendships.