The rapid expansion of research with children and young people has compelled researchers to engage carefully and critically with the ethical aspects of their research, including considering the best ways to ensure children's meaningful participation in research in ethically sensitive ways.
The Administrative Challenges of (Play) Therapy brings together essays by eight therapists who tell the stories their career paths in the fields of social work and psychology, specializing in children and family therapy .
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'.
The nature and consequences of aging depend on its environmental context, and the literature does not treat the various environmental dimensions in an integrated fashion.
With today's availability of Social Security and Medicare, we typically think of the older years as a stage in life where people are supported financially.
This monograph explores the expansion of the Tablighi Jama''at, a transnational Islamic missionary movement that originated in India in the mid-nineteenth century.
The concept of culture has gained considerable attention within the humanities and social sciences in general, and this is certainly true in the field of gerontology.
"e;The eighth edition of Aging Networks is particularly well-suited for use in the classroom, and can be used or adapted for a wide variety of disciplines including gerontology, social work, public health, public administration, nursing and other health professions.
Those who work in childcare and educational settings have an ethical and legal responsibility to take into account children's cultural, ethnic, religious and linguistic backgrounds.
This book addresses gaps in our understanding of processes that underpin the making and circulation of children's screen contents across the Arab region and Europe.
Silenced Angels: The Medical, Legal and Social Aspects of Shaken Baby Syndrome delves into the realms of child abuse that has never been explored before in such detail.
This book explores disrupted youth cohesion in France within the context of multiple ongoing global economic, migratory, social, political, and security-related crises.
Concerns about aging, old age security, and intergenerational relations existed long before youth culture and falling fertility became such popular media topics.
Focusing on the earliest years (0-8), the new edition of this bestselling textbook continues to provide a comprehensive overview of the research, theory, and current practice in the field of child development.
A milestone of child psychology, The Child's Conception of the World explores the ways in which the reasoning powers of young children differ from those of adults.
With the push toward accountability and test performance in schools there has been a decline in emphasis on creativity, imagination, and feelings in schools.
Practitioners and managers in child protection often struggle to focus on the needs of children and families in the face of ever-expanding bureaucracy.
Child and Adolescent Online Risk Exposure: An Ecological Perspective focuses on online risks and outcomes for children and adolescents using an ecological perspective (i.
This provocative book takes a look at children's consumption of sexualized media messages while providing parents, teachers, and professionals with strategies for abating their influence.
Intergeneratives Engagement stellt eine sozialpädagogische Möglichkeit für nichtverwandte Generationen dar, sich in einem nonformalen Setting zu begegnen.
Growing Up combines two flourishing historical fields--the history of childhood and world history--to address the question of how much of childhood is natural and how much is historically determined.
Despite the developing emphasis in current scholarship on children in Roman culture, there has been relatively little research to date on the role and significance of the youngest children within the family and in society.