Whether controversial or taken for granted, pictures of children are everywhere - in magazines, newspapers and advertisements, on greetings cards and the Internet.
Counseling Special Populations in Schools provides school-based mental health professionals with practical, specific strategies for counseling special populations of students who are at risk for academic, social, emotional, and behavioral problems in school.
Bildung und Lernen bis ins hohe Alter hinein sind lebenswichtig: Sie dienen als Schlüssel zur Gestaltung des gesellschaftlichen Wandels und fördern individuelle Sinnerfüllung in der zweiten Lebenshälfte.
Born in the Netherlands at a time when girls are to be housewives and mothers and nothing else, Hendrika de Vries is a "e;daddy's girl"e; until her father is deported from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to a POW camp in Germany and her mother joins the Resistance.
The book provides a comprehensive overview of research and concepts related to shame and ageing, in the context of social change, upheavals and paradigm shifts, from transdisciplinary, cultural and transcultural perspectives.
Fraud committed against the elderly has reached epidemic proportions, and the problem will only worsen as a large segment of the American population approaches retirement age.
To truly understand AIDS and sexual behaviour we must Possess the necessary knowledge and factual information acquired through formal education and teaching, self-learning and reading, and the personal experience of ourselves and others.
This book broadens the visioning on new care environments that are designed to be inclusive, progressive, and convergent with the needs of an aging population.
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.
The Hudsons Guild is a long established neighborhood house which offers social, educational, psychiatric, and psychological services to the residents of Chelsea, who are often socially, economically, and educationally, deprived.
In Live Love Now, New York Times bestselling author Rachel Macy Stafford tackles the biggest challenges facing kids today and equips adults to engage them with humanness and heart, compassion and honesty to discover the deep, life-giving connection everyone is longing for.
The first graduate text to address health literacy in the aging populationLow health literacy is a critical issue among adults, with over one third found to have difficulty understanding such basic information as that found on prescription bottles.
In Animals as Legal Beings, Maneesha Deckha critically examines how Canadian law and, by extension, other legal orders around the world, participate in the social construction of the human-animal divide and the abject rendering of animals as property.
This groundbreaking study on the psycholinguistics of spelling presents the author's original empirical research on spelling and supplies the theoretical framework necessary to understand how children's ability to write is related to their ability to speak a language.
Surprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social world and imagine the future.
This book explores how studies of language and aging can be applied to build an aging-friendly society, drawing on the socio-pragmatic turn in language and aging to examine the perspectives of older adults experiencing aging through a linguistic lens.
Elaine Halligan's My Child's Different: The lessons learned from one family's struggle to unlock their son's potential explores the enabling role that parents can play in getting the best out of children who are seen as 'different' or 'difficult'.
Research skills are as critical to social work practitioners as skills in individual and group counselling, policy analysis, and community development.
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.
This text presents facts and figures about the incidence of teenage pregnancies throughout Europe together with current research based information on this subject.
