Age groups and generations

As the field of counseling continues to experience major growth, the need for clinical supervisors is growing proportionally.

This book will help readers to better understand and address a strange social phenomenon: the apparent choice by some seniors to live in squalor.

Why Are You Always on the Phone?

Illustrating the power of play for helping children overcome a wide variety of worries, fears, and phobias, this book provides a toolkit of play therapy approaches and techniques.

Real understanding of past societies is not possible without including children, and yet they have been strangely invisible in the archaeological record.

The Handbook of Parenting brings together in a single volume much of the theoretical and empirical knowledge and aspects of professional activity within the broadly defined field of parenting.

This landmark resource investigates and documents current and predicted trends regarding the experiences of grandparents in the United States and abroad.

Despite their institutional preparation and lived experiences, new school social workers encounter numerous practices, political considerations, community engagement strategies, and seemingly fundamental elements involved in the learning curve needed to move from entry-level to proficiency.

This practical handbook will empower activity coordinators and carers to run safe, rewarding and health-giving dance and movement sessions with older people, including with those who are frail, who have limited mobility or who are living with dementia.

How do teenagers with Asperger Syndrome view themselves and their own lives?

Features a giant, lavishly illustrated timeline of more than 500 images that showcases a glorious gallery of art from all around the world.

Understanding Looked After Children is an accessible guide to understanding the mental health needs of children in foster care and the role of foster carers and support networks in helping these children.

The 'baby boom' generation, born between the 1940s and the 1960s, is often credited with pioneering new and creative ways of relating, doing intimacy and making families.

"e;Ethics, Aging and Society.

It's no secret: something has happened to America's families.

Child prostitution became one of the key concerns of the international community in the 1990s.

Technology and Adolescent Health: In Schools and Beyond discusses how today's adolescents are digital natives, using technology at home and in school to access information, for entertainment, to socialize and do schoolwork.

Übersichtlich und verständlich führt dieses Buch in das Gebiet der Entwicklungspsychologie des Erwachsenenalters ein.

However unthinkable child-soldiers may be within a generalized conception of childhood, they are not imaginary figures; rather, they are a constant in almost every armed conflict around the world.

Providers serving older adults face a growing problem.

Contemporary society has imposed a set of unrealistic and confusing rules for men over 18 to follow.

El Chavo del Ocho is one of the most influential pieces of popular culture to have hit Latin America in the last 50 years, having, at the peak of its popularity in the mid-1970s, reached an approximate audience of 350 million across the Americas.

This volume contains an Open Access ChapterCurrently, there are more than 36 million transnationally mobile children and youth.

Erik Erikson, best known for his life-cycle theory and concept of the identity crisis, proposed that we are comprised of a number of selves.

Life Story Therapy is an approach designed to enable children to explore, question and understand the past events of their lives.

When a child talks about a vivid nighttime dream, it can be difficult for adults to know how to respond.

This volume is comprised of empirical research and theoretical papers within three key areas, namely children's well being, children and youth peer cultures, and the rights of children and youth.

This book describes and analyzes the lived experience of elder abuse from the queer community.

The lifecourse perspective continues to be an important subject in the social sciences.

The Middle Ages (800 1400) were a rich and vibrant period in the history of European culture, society, and intellectual thought.

Vor dem Hintergrund einer alternden Gesellschaft sehen sich die Krankenhäuser nicht nur mit immer älteren Patienten, sondern auch mit einem Wandel des Krankheitspanoramas konfrontiert.

Designated a Doody's Core Title!

As we deepen our understanding of the interplay between money and psychology, financial therapy has emerged as a popular field of study.

Das Handbuch informiert über die Arbeit mit Jugendlichen in den evangelischen Kirchen und der evangelischen Jugendverbandsarbeit und stellt die Bandbreite und Vielfalt der Handlungsfelder und Arbeitsformen umfassend dar.

Four-plus years of classes, tests, research papers, pop quizzes, bottomless cups of coffee, and tons of late night studying have culminated in a gathering of family and friends to celebrate the graduate's solemn-and joyous-march across the platform to receive the coveted "e;parchment.

Significant health-industry human resource needs increase the reliance on family and friends to support older adults hoping to age in place.

Explore the multiple dimensions of child and adolescent development in Latin America, and get acquainted with the research from this region and how it relates to the international scientific literature.

This compilation of original essays does more than just illuminate the serious problem of teen violence and victimization; it also provides resources that parents and teachers can use to address issues of violence with their teens and make a difference.

This publication focuses on the situation, opportunities, and challenges in providing children an optimal environment for growth and development in India.

Cyber-bullying, sexting, and the effects that violent video games have on children are widely discussed and debated.

Gluten-free casein-free diets are widely used to improve cognitive function, speech patterns, behavior, and general well-being in children on the autistic spectrum.

Margaret Cruikshank's Learning to Be Old examines what it means to grow old in America today.

Now in a revised and updated 6th edition, the groundbreaking, research-based approach to understanding and parenting children who frequently exhibit severe fits of temper and other challenging behaviors, from a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the field.

This book examines how the fairy tale is currently being redeployed and revised on the contemporary teen screen.

A new book about parenting from the prolific author of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From VenusJohn Gray's Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus is a history-making bestseller with more than 7 million copies in print in hardcover.

Most recently, Americans have become familiar with the term "e;second generation"e; as it's applied to children of immigrants who now find themselves citizens of a nation built on the notion of assimilation.

Communication is one of the biggest challenges faced by people with Asperger's Syndrome (AS), yet an Asperger marriage requires communication more than any other relationship.

Orphans of Islam portrays the abject lives and "e;excluded body"e; of abandoned and bastard children in contemporary Morocco, while critiquing the concept and practice of "e;adoption,"e; which too often is considered a panacea.