Age groups and generations

Through the autobiographical perspectives of 16 preeminent researchers and scholars of Environmental Gerontology, this state-of-the-art Annual Review critically examines the broad range of topics that comprise this interdisciplinary field.

The senses are made, not given.

In What Does It Mean to Grow Old?

We live in a globalized world in which children live in extreme poverty, experience stunted growth, are denied access to education, live as refugees, are subjected to violence, are employed as unskilled workers and even face threats from terror organizations.

Emotions are at the very heart of individual and communal actions.

Chronic violence has characterized Somalia for over two decades, forcing nearly two million people to flee.

Der Band widmet sich der erziehungswissenschaftlichen Jugendforschung, die mittlerweile als eines der zentralen Forschungsfelder innerhalb der Erziehungswissenschaft gilt.

It's surprisingly common for children and adolescents to play with fire and to actually set fires.

Desi Land is Shalini Shankar's lively ethnographic account of South Asian American teen culture during the Silicon Valley dot-com boom.

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

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.

Gain first-hand knowledge of how today's lesbians aged 60 and over survived the 20th century!

What is dementia?

Leading therapists and researchers have come to understand that many psychological disorders share common features and respond to common therapeutic treatments.

The postwar years in the UK saw the development of numerous artificial playgrounds intended to compensate children for increasing urbanization and a lack of wild places to play.

Kinder mit außergewöhnlichen Fähigkeiten, die Gedanken lesen und kraft ihres Geistes Gegenstände bewegen können, Kinder, die mit Schutzengeln und geliebten Verstorbenen reden, Kinder, die sich an frühere Erdenleben erinnern, und verstorbene Kinder, die als Enkelinnen und Enkel wiedergeboren werden .

What is meant by narrative?

The first edition of this popular book won praise for successfully exploring the inner world of contemporary adolescence.

This book provides concrete scientific basis that we can conceive the possibility of modifying or even completely canceling aging process, despite the fact that aging is commonly regarded as the result of the overall effects of many uncontrollable degenerative phenomena.

The increasing number of people being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) cannot simply be explained by changes in diagnostic criteria or greater awareness of the condition.

Emerging Adults and Substance Use Disorder Treatment addresses how a societal shift in the timing of developmental tasks affects treatment outcomes for substance use disorders, which are among the most highly prevalent and costly mental health problems in the United States.

When Anne Ford, great-granddaughter of Henry Ford, learned that her four-year-old daughter Allegra’s “differences” were the result of severe learning disabilities, she faced a challenge that neither money nor position could ease.

This book examines service-learning - a valuable means of promoting civic engagement and youth leadership in students by enabling them to apply their knowledge to needy people in the community.

Aims to equip those engaged in ministry to people with dementia.

Vorstellungen von Kindheit und vom Kind sind soziale Konstruktionen und als solche eng mit den Werten und Normen einer Gesellschaft verknüpft, so die Prämisse der sozialwissenschaftlichen Kindheitsforschung.

From the co–author of the New York Times bestseller When Elephants Weep comes a book that uses true stories backed by scientific research to explore the way young animals discover their worlds and learn how to survive.

Die Beiträge des Bandes befassen sich mit (physischer wie anderer) Gewalt, die von Jugendlichen ausgeübt oder ihnen von Erwachsenen etwa in Schulen und Fürsorgeheimen zugefügt wurde.

This handbook offers a comprehensive survey of the growing field of literary age studies and points to new directions in scholarly research.

The past decade brought forth a wave of excitement and promise for researchers and practitioners interested in community practice as an approach based on social justice principles and an embrace of community participatory actions.

Given the 2006 GREAT GERONTOLOGY AWARD for outstanding contribution to gerontological research by the Swedish Gerontological SocietyReceived a VALUE GROUND AWARD from the journal Aldreomsorg (Old Age Care)Expanding upon his earlier writings, Dr.

Now in its fourth edition, this is the classic assessment of the state of child well-being in the United Kingdom.

This book examines the growing importance of positive psychology and its connection to later life.

An innovative approach for parents of challenging boys to prevent meltdowns and put out fires Parenting is often called the toughest job you will ever love.

The myth of generations of disengaged youth has been shattered by increases in youth turnout in the 2004, 2006, and 2008 primaries.

Pre-school childcare in England, 1939-2010 investigates how competing ideas about child development influenced the provision, practice and experience of childcare for the under fives since 1939.

Childhood and adult experiences of individuals with Asperger Syndrome (AS) are becoming increasingly well documented, yet the crucial formative teenage years have, so far, been neglected.

During his thirty years with the Institute of Child Study of the University of Toronto the late Dr.

Normally, our relationships with our brothers and sisters are the longest relationships in our lives, outlasting time with our parents, and most marriages today.

In Reducing Stress-Related Behaviours in people with Dementia, Chris Bonner has written a thoroughly entertaining, yet highly instructive, manual for people with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.

Case Studies in Lifespan Development offers students a comprehensive view into life's key developmental stages through unique, diverse, and moving cases.

Launched by healthcare providers in January 2018, the #aHand2Hold campaign confronted the Quebec government's practice of separating children from their families during medical evacuation airlifts, which disproportionately affected remote and northern Indigenous communities.

This provocative critique of the youth sports movement examines the various issues surrounding children in sports and provides a plan for reform based on a change in philosophy and practice.

George Schuyler, a renowned and controversial black journalist of the Harlem Renaissance, and Josephine Cogdell, a blond, blue-eyed Texas heiress and granddaughter of slave owners, believed that intermarriage would "e;invigorate"e; the races, thereby producing extraordinary offspring.

This book directs critical attention to one of the most ubiquitous and yet under-analyzed games, Minecraft.

Doody's Score: 91, 4 Stars"e;[This] book's unfading preoccupation with social context, social processes, and social structures distinguishes itself and greatly contributes to the discourse in gerontology.

The book takes the reader "e;into the trenches"e; with the author as he describes his psychoanalytic work with a variety of patients with difficult and complex conditions.

Angels - and stories of how they can rescue, support and heal us in times of trouble - have become deservedly popular in recent years.

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.

Are you a young person?

Young people are regularly posited as a threat to social order and Deconstructing Youth explores why.