Age groups and generations

This disturbing volume probes beneath the rhetoric about system change in the transition societies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to examine the impact of political, social, and economic dislocation, ethnic conflict and civil war on the most population: children.

This dictionary, encyclopaedic in nature is unique among the existing literature.

In der Gerontologie wird die Notwendigkeit hochwertiger Interventionen samt Prävention mit dem Erreichen des Renteneintritts der Babyboomer-Generation, dem stetigen Anstieg der Lebenserwartung und dem künftigen Fachkräftemangel drängender denn je.

Alef Is for Allah is the first groundbreaking study of the emotional space occupied by children in modern Islamic societies.

Combines feminist and social theories on the body, biology and sex to examine the sociological and cultural issues surrounding puberty.

About half of all marriages in the United States end in divorce, and most of these divorces result in unnecessary collateral damage.

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.

Erik Erikson and the American Psyche is an intellectual biography which explores Erikson's contributions to the study of infancy, childhood and ethical development in light of ego psychology, object-relations theory, Lacanian theory and other major trends in psychoanalysis.

Linking Margaret Mead to the Mickey Mouse Club and behaviorism to Bambi, Nicholas Sammond traces a path back to the early-twentieth-century sources of "e;the normal American child.

With the rapid growth of the aging population, the need for geriatric social workers is at an all-time high.

During the 1990s lone mothers reached the top of the political agenda, viewed as both a drain on public expenditure and a moral threat.

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.

Through a transnational, comparative and multi-level approach to the relationship between youth, migration, and music, the aesthetic intersections between the local and the global, and between agency and identity, are presented through case studies in this book.

The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome is the definitive handbook for anyone affected by Asperger's syndrome (AS).

Shakespeare's adolescents examines the varied representation of adolescent characters in Shakespeare's plays.

This book offers a unique perspective on clinical supervision, foregrounding experiential techniques, and a refreshing, playful approach to professional development.

Realizing the College Dream with Autism or Asperger Syndrome is both a practical and a personal account of one ASD student's successful experience of going to college.

Multifactorial perspectives, whether sociological, cultural, anthropological, historical, biological or psychological, serve as the basis for a considerable amount of research, including how youth and adolescents are influenced by the sociocultural aspects that guide the way they are seen and see the society around them.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

In the last decades of the 20th century, successive British governments have regarded adolescent pregnancy and childbearing as a significant public health and social problem.

Designated a Doody's Core Title!

Moving from one country to another causes a radical alteration of one's cultural and geophysical surround.

Understand how multigenerational family relationships can benefit all generations!

This book is not only reassuring; it is inspiring, and bursting with ideas and achievable strategies.

Bringing together leading experts, this book presents effective practices for helping people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) to thrive in adulthood.

From Betty White to Toni Morrison, we're surrounded by examples of women working well past the traditional retirement age.

All Things Anglican offers a lively and accessible introduction to Anglicanism for anyone wanting to know what makes it distinctive.

How can we help children make a difference, allowing them to shape their communities, locally and globally?

This book provides an engaging insight into the responses of teenage audiences to British period drama, presenting original data collected from young people across England.

This book is about boyfriends and girlfriends - getting them, keeping them and moving on from them.

Adults were once children, yet a generational gap can present itself when grown-ups seek to know children's lives, in research.

This best-selling, practical, evidence-based guide to the cognitive behavioural approach takes you step-by-step through the process of counselling, from initial contact with the client to termination and follow up.

Teamende befinden sich in ihrer Arbeit mit jungen Menschen immer wieder in seelsorglichen Situationen.

Stripping away the hype, this book describes how, when, and why media violence can influence children of different ages, giving parents and teachers the power to maximize the media's benefits and minimize its harm.

Hidden in Plain Sight tells the tragic untold story of children's rights in America.

Children are thoroughly, shockingly queer, as Kathryn Bond Stockton explains in The Queer Child, where she examines children's strangeness, even some children's subliminal "e;gayness,"e; in the twentieth century.

Drawing on comparative country case studies, this book explores student mobility in Europe, incorporating original theoretical perspectives to explain how mobility happens and new empirical evidence to illustrate how students become mobile within their present educational and future working lives.

This volume explores and compares linguistic practices among young people in linguistically and culturally diverse urban spaces.

Our lives are full of disruptions, from the minor-a flat tire, an unexpected phone call-to the fateful-a diagnosis of infertility, an illness, the death of a loved one.

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.

An examination of youth Internet safety as a technology of governance, seen in panics over online pornography, predators, bullying, and reputation management.

In this book Chris Jenks looks at what the ways in which we construct our image of childhood can tell us about ourselves.

Die Reform des Kindschaftsrechts in Österreich im Jahr 2013 brachte eine Reihe von Neuerungen im Bereich der Obsorge und des Kontaktrechts mit sich.

Is America the next missionary graveyard?

This volume takes the child''s environment (culture, education, family, peers and media) as an essential component of child development.

Approximately 1 in 54 children in the U.

What are the components of youth cultures today?