Age groups and generations

A one-of-a-kind guide to active, engaging learning strategies for aging studiesHarnessing the proven benefits of active learning strategies, this is the first activity book created for a broad spectrum of courses in aging-related higher education.

Anthropology is particularly well suited to explore the contemporary predicament in the coming of age of young men.

Critical strategies for confronting a dire, yet under-addressed societal epidemic-the risky and potentially deadly consequences for older adults living a socially isolated life, are the focus for this book.

Dyslogical children are commonly labelled as having one or more of a mix of conditions that include Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Bipolar Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder.

This book will inspire and equip parents to help their hurting teens.

Children can and do survive cancer; the last decade has seen many major advancements in treatment.

This book bridges the fields of critical youth studies, community psychology, and sociology to offer a transdisciplinary analysis of youth voice, participation, and activism, as well as of creative and inclusive knowledge-making practices.

This volume brings together chapters about aging in many non-Western cultures, from Africa and Asia to South America, from American Indians to Australian and Hawaii Aboriginals.

This book coaches marketing practitioners and students how to best satisfy the needs of the older consumer population.

This book, first published in 2006, presents research about experiences in middle childhood that forecast children''s future development.

Alt sind immer nur die anderen, dachte auch Dieter Bednarz.

Though it may seem hard to believe, it took America's lawmakers some 110 years before they crafted legislation aimed at protecting the welfare of children.

Living either full or part time in a recreational vehicle has been an alternative lifestyle in North America since the 1920s.

Rap Music and the Youth in Malawi is one of the first book-length studies of Malawian hip hop.

From the US to Nepal, author J.

Failure to Launch is a book geared towards helping clinicians work with dependent adult children.

Die ersten Lebensjahre sind für die Entwicklung der emotionalen und intellektuellen Grundmuster der Persönlichkeit entscheidend.

These volumes offer an in-depth analysis of youth sexualities as they shape and are shaped by public feelings and by American social, cultural, and political contexts.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

Sei es die Isolation von trauernden Kindern und Jugendlichen in der Coronazeit, sei es das eingeschränkte Besuchsrecht von Kindern auf Intensivstationen oder ihr Ausschluss von Aufbahrungen und Beerdigungen: Kinder und Jugendliche werden in ihrer ausgeprägten Anpassungsfähigkeit in Krisen- und Trauersituationen von Erwachsenen oft unterschätzt und übersehen.

Drawing on the perspectives of women and children displaced from Ukraine, as well as local authority policy makers and service providers, this book provides a unique view of the direct and indirect consequences of war in Europe.

This fully-updated second edition of Helping Children with Dyspraxia has been revised to reflect current practice and developments, providing clear and positive answers to questions commonly asked by parents and teachers about dyspraxia.

Intersubjectivity refers to the motivation and capacity to connect and share one's own inner world with that of another person.

There is a complex relationship between performance, youth, and the shifting material circumstances (social, cultural, economic, ideological, and political) under which theatre for children and youth is generated and perceived.

"e;Aldwin and Gilmer have supplied an interesting textual model for examining health, illness, and aging.

The teen years are hard enough.

A unique 2010 account of childhood during the industrial revolution through the autobiographies of working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This accessible book takes a unique person-centred approach to working with older people and provides an introduction to the legislation, policy, theory and research needed by social workers.

Die vielfältigen Problemlagen der großen Anzahl von Jugendlichen, die außerhalb ihrer Herkunftsfamilie in Wohngruppen leben, erfordern ein pädagogisches Betreuungskonzept, das fachlich fundiert und menschlich zugewandt den jungen Menschen ein Zuhause auf Zeit bietet.

Trust Kids!

This book examines how conflict has affected the rights of youth in Northeast India.

Children in the Marshall Islands do many things that adults do not.

Teaching Teens About Relationships describes how to teach a relationships course for adolescents.

Véritable traité de gérontologie sociale, il s’agit du premier manuel francophone traitant des différents aspects sociaux des vieillissements.

Child Sexual Abuse is often not a physical pain, but rather a psychological pain.

This book provides new and original insight on the senior living housing needs in Poland.

Bayley 4 Clinical Use and Interpretation provides clinicians with a guide for use, administration, scoring and interpretation of the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, Fourth Edition.

A longitudinal study of how older people maintain a sense of self and meaning despite the losses associated with ageing.

How do we understand children and young people's lives in ways that do not rely on nostalgic romantic ideals or demonising prejudices?

Practitioners must be able to listen, talk, communicate and engage with children and young people if they are going to make a real difference to their lives.

Acclaimed author and renowned psychiatrist Irvin D.

In the hustle and bustle of everyday life, how do we, as parents, honor the spirituality of our children?

Americans at Midlife is an exploration of the middle years within the framework of trends in the larger society, including longer life expectancy and an aging population; changes in marriage, divorce, and family composition; increased participation of women in the labor force; and the growth of two-income families.

An in-depth overview, this book examines major current problems faced by today's adolescents.

Early evening, a young boy alone on his pony on the rim of the Nebraska Sandhills.

The viability, quality and sustainability of publicly supported early childhood education and care services is a lively issue in many countries, especially since the rights of the child imply equal access to provision for all young children.