This book draws on Trevor's experience in both Christian and secular organisations to look at different patterns for leadership and he explains the necessity for every leader to model a clear strategy for their work.
El entrenamiento en habilidades emocionales para jóvenes es una propuesta que pretende ser una guía para fortalecer el proceso de crecimiento de los jóvenes no solo acompañándolos a ellos, sino además acompañando con herramientas específicas a los adultos, quienes tienen la tarea de orientar las búsquedas de estos jóvenes en un contexto actual que es desafiante y está en constante cambio, con realidades cada vez más imprevisibles e incomprensibles.
Educación de la afectividad y sexualidad integral: horizontes y desafíos es un trabajo coral, que aporta saberes interdisciplinarios y experiencias, en torno a la temática, en función de ámbitos comunitarios (salud, educación, pastoral).
Das GlücksschmiedeKIDS-Entdeckerbuch beinhaltet zahlreiche Übungen und Hintergrundinformationen zur Förderung der Widerstandskraft in stürmischen Zeiten, basierend auf dem von der ZPP (Zentrale Prüfstelle für Prävention) zertifizierten Präventionsprogramm "GlücksschmiedeKIDS".
Surprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social world and imagine the future.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Western Europe's "e;Golden Age"e; (Eric Hobsbawm), a new youth consciousness emerged, which gave this period its distinctive character.
Following networks of mothers in London and Paris, the author profiles the narratives of women who breastfeed their children to full term, typically a period of several years, as part of an 'attachment parenting' philosophy.
Children and youth, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, are experiencing lifestyle choices their parents never imagined and contributing to the transformation of ideals, traditions, education and adult child power dynamics.
Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan and Indonesia, this book is the first ethnography to research Indonesian care workers relationships with the cared-for elderly, their Japanese colleagues, and their employers.
In an era of rapidly increasing technological advances and international exchange, how did young people come to understand the world beyond their doorsteps?
Between 1939 and 1945, some 80,000 Finnish children were sent to Sweden, Denmark, and elsewhere, ostensibly to protect them from danger while their nation s soldiers fought superior Soviet and German forces.
This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home for 70 residents and 40 staff highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents between 80 and 100 years of age, including people suffering with dementia.
This book was written specifically for baby boomers who are now faced with caring for their parent in their home, either by choice or by financial circumstances.
Public discourse on Asian parenting tends to fixate on ethnic culture as a static value set, disguising the fluidity and diversity of Chinese parenting.
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'.
This text captures the profound unacknowledged crisis that is unique to children of first-generation immigrants, by virtue of their being caught in a world of their parents' culture of origin and their social experience in the United States.
Full of ideas, activities and exercises, this book provides imaginative ways to inspire young people to put down the computer games, disconnect from social media, and spend more time away from a screen.
Perhaps because of the wisdom received from our Romantic forbears about the purity of the child, depictions of children as monsters have held a tremendous fascination for film audiences for decades.
Lifting Our Voices is the only book to explore the dual roles of professional social workers who are also family caregivers and the only collection on caregiving in which the majority of contributors are African American.
Four-plus years of classes, tests, research papers, pop quizzes, bottomless cups of coffee, and tons of late night studying have culminated in a gathering of family and friends to celebrate the graduate's solemn-and joyous-march across the platform to receive the coveted "e;parchment.
By recounting actual court cases, this book examines the multi-billion-dollar elder fraud industry, the special vulnerabilities of those it targets, and the ease and frequency with which it obtains hundreds of thousands of dollars per victim.
By the middle 1800s, toys were appearing in forms that drew upon--and that inspired--advances in areas such as optics, biology, geography, transportation, and automation.
