Age groups and generations

Whether you see a preschooler laughing or crying, hugging or tugging on a playmate, taking risks or seeking comfort from an adult, you know that they are developing their emotional skills and growing up in so many ways every day.

Topically organized, Adult Development and Aging: Growth, Longevity and Challenges provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the aging process in adulthood from multiple perspectives.

This edited volume offers a critical, thorough, and interdisciplinary examination of arguments for eliminating the minimum democratic voting age.

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.

Despite projections of significant growth in older minority populations, researchers have little more than surface-level appreciation of how cultural factors will shape mental and physical health outcomes.

How do boys see themselves?

Mealtimes are about much more than just re-fuelling, and the importance of mealtimes in the care of people with dementia cannot be overestimated.

This book introduces part of the advances of the aging research conducted by Dr.

Many can attest to the importance of the self-growth that occurs for young people through the arts and their accompanying communities of support, understanding, and caring.

Offers proven strategies for advancing the care of the homeless elderlyFilled with key insights and field-tested knowledge, this is a concise, hands-on guide to how interdisciplinary team strategies can advance the care of older homeless adults.

Kinder und Jugendliche wachsen heute völlig selbstverständlich mit Smartphone, Tablet, Notebook & Co auf.

The Baby Boomer generation is facing a time of heightened uncertainty.

In Democracy Remixed, award-winning scholar Cathy J.

* What happens to childhood when the nature of adulthood becomes uncertain?

The saying "e;it takes a village to raise a child"e; is especially true for families with special needs children.

Gender diversity and non-conformity are becoming increasingly visible within society.

With this deeply influential book, which is now internationally recognised as a classic study of childhood and its social significance, Professor Erikson has made an outstanding contribution to the study of human behaviour.

The consequences of global aging will influence virtually all areas of life to be encountered in the 21st century, including the biological limits of healthy longevity, the generational contract and nature of family ties, the makeup of households and communities, symbolic representations of midlife and old age and attitudes toward disability and death.

The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook on Aging and Work is a comprehensive resource for students, scholars, and practitioners seeking a broad overview of interrelated topics concerning the aging workforce or insightful discussions of specific issues and challenges facing people in the demographic.

from the Foreword:Possibly the heartless treatment of children, from the practice of infanticide and abandonment through to the neglect, the rigors of swaddling, the purposeful starving, the beatings, the solitary confinement, and so on, was and is only one aspect of the basic aggressiveness and cruelty of human nature, of the inbred disregard of the rights and feelings of others.

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

This book examines the low birth weight and infant mortality in high-altitude Indian region Ladakh.

Die Musiktherapie bei Alter und Demenz befindet sich in einer rasanten Entwicklung - sowohl in der Forschung als auch in der Praxis.

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.

Even after 20 years of children's rights and new thinking about childhood, children are still frequently seen as apolitical.

40 Jahre beriet der Autor Menschen mit einer Krebserkrankung und gewann Einblick darin, wie sehr die Krankheit die energetische Struktur der Umgebung widerspiegelt.

With Mindful Birthing, Nancy Bardacke, nurse-midwife and mindfulness teacher, lays out her innovative program for pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond.

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

This book is a detailed study of children's everyday practices in a small, deprived neighbourhood of post-socialist Bratislava, called Kopcany.

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.

Interviewers face a dilemma when questioning children in a forensic context--an inherent mismatch between the needs of the legal system and the capabilities of young children.

Presenting interventions that are practical, effective, and easy to implement in educational and clinical settings, this book addresses the most frequently encountered emotional and behavioral problems in 3- to 6-year-olds.

How do we save play in a standard-driven educational environment?

This book analyses parental anxieties about their children's healthcare issues in urban China, engaging with wider theoretical debates about modernity, risk and anxiety.

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

This groundbreaking three-volume set spotlights how conditions around the world are affecting the healthy development of adolescents in their respective environments, on all six continents.

Living independently and participating in one's community are priorities for many people.

Educators have long been pursuing and applying ways that play can be a context and even a medium for teaching and learning.

Chapter 1 examines the Trump administration's care for unaccompanied children in government custody and the impact of administration policies on the health and wellbeing of children.

As we grow older, our need to be engaged in interesting activities does not diminish and is vital to our quality of life.

This two-volume encyclopedia looks at the lives of teenagers around the world, examining topics from a typical school day to major issues that teens face today, including bullying, violence, sexuality, and social and financial pressures.

Die erste Generation türkischer Migranten in Deutschland hat heute überwiegend das Rentenalter erreicht.

In this timely and important work, expert gerontologists review what has been learned about the aged and the process of aging and link this knowledge to interventions for improving the quality of life.

This book is a collection of scientific studies regarding the biological, economic, historical, health, social, and other aspects of the populations of the western Balkans, a geographic area with distinct as well as diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, political systems, ethnic characteristics, development, and history.

Experts agree that America is in the midst of a disturbing epidemic of what has thus far been diagnosed as autism.

This sensitive and compassionate book provides older people who are nearing the end of life and their loved ones, as well as the professionals who work with them, with a greater depth of understanding of spiritual issues surrounding death and dying.

Young people's participation is an urgent policy and practice concern across countries and context.