Age groups and generations

The Verbal Behavior (VB) approach is a form of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), that is based on B.

The issue of child labour is a worldwide phenomenon and it exists in almost all the countries of this planet.

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

More than one million American children are schooled by their parents.

What do we know about the implications of the major changing forces in urban life for children?

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

An investigation of how governments, organizations, and groups use the Internet to promote civic and political engagement among young people.

The best interest of the child is an overriding principle in all matters of family law, especially in child custody cases.

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

This unique collection of 12 research projects carried out by experienced practitioners in the play sector in the UK and USA puts forward a range of perspectives on children's play and adults' relationships with it.

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

Mit der Einschulungsfeier wird das Kind Mitglied einer gesellschaftlichen Bildungsinstitution und erhält den Status eines Schülers, ohne tatsächlich schon über die notwendigen Kenntnisse der damit verbundenen Anforderungen zu verfügen.

Praise for the Eighth Edition:"e;This small volume is not only an excellent learning tool, but also a "e;must-have"e; handbook for aging professionals in many fields.

Teen gangs are a hot issue in the United States.

Why do some governments try to limit immigrants' access to social benefits and entitlements while others do not?

Childhood is a socially constructed state that can differ significantly from culture to culture and period to period.

Die Autorin schildert ihre eigenen Erfahrungen als Autistin und als Mutter eines autistischen Sohnes.

Constructing the Life Course offers a social constructionist perspective on personal experience through time.

Disability and Child Sexual Abuse examines the ways in which society marginalises, institutionalises and places disabled children in situations of unacceptable risk, and how - as evidenced in the survivors' narratives - patterns of service delivery can contribute to the problem.

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.

Empirically based, the daily experience of adolescent black females is explicated within an explanatory model of social context and developmental theory.

This volume explores film and television for children and youth.

The world of contemporary American infants and young children is saturated with inappropriate images of American Indians.

This three-volume set provides insightful and understandable summaries of the state-of-the-art studies of aging-the most important social demographic issue facing America today.

Many believed the twentieth century would be the century of the child: an era in which modern societies would value and protect children, sheltering them from violence and poverty.

What if the unexpected is the beginning of becoming your truest self?

This is a multi-disciplinary account of language repertoires of early multilingualism across continents, languages and contexts.

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.

At the outbreak of the First World War, Great Britain quickly took steps to initiate a naval blockade against Germany.

Falling somewhere between childhood and adulthood, 'Youth' is a key period of transition.

This book takes a global perspective to address the concept of belonging in youth studies, interrogating its emergence as a reoccurring theme in the literature and elucidating its benefits and shortcomings.

Students in Discord fills a void in the professional literature concerning adolescents with emotional and behavioral disorders by providing theoretical information about psychiatric and psychological diagnoses with practical information about actual public school students who show both externalizing and internalizing disorders.

"e;This intellectually stimulating book demonstrates the authors are well-read and possess elegant synthesizing skills.

How do young people see the future?

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

It makes sense to have well-planned, research based approaches to adolescent health and education, which can be incorporated into the curriculum by teachers, within the normal context of the school.

Abandoned on foreign soil in a world where language and customs are a mystery, Sophia James, the eldest of six Californian children, is in charge-and she is only eleven.

Wie lassen sich Entwicklungstendenzen von Kindheiten im ländlichen Raum erfassen und bewerten?

How do young people participate in democratic societies?

This book, Design for Sustainable Inclusion, was inspired and informed by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

When Mikey is young, the Sullivans are a closely knit unit, all of them devoted to caring for her.

While categorization has always been one of the primary focuses of the social sciences, recent trends within these disciplines have tended to categorize various behaviours as disorders.

When sacred objects were rejected during the Reformation, they were not always burned and broken but were sometimes given to children as toys.