The seventh edition of this classic text champions healthy aging by demonstrating how to prevent or manage disease and make large-scale improvements toward health and wellness in the older adult population.
This book considers the largely under-recognised contribution that young writers have made to life writing genres such as memoir, letter writing and diaries, as well as their innovative use of independent and social media.
Das Buch zeigt aus einer rassismuskritischen Perspektive die Konstitution von (‚kultursensiblen‘) Altenpflegeheimen sowie darin eingelassene Subjekte und Adressierungen.
Der Band bietet eine Zusammenschau theoretischer und praktischer Perspektiven, die sich rund um das Thema Videospiel, die Erhaltung von Information und die Beharrung auf traditionellen Designparadigmen ergeben.
Im vorliegenden Buch werden zum einen auf der Grundlage biographischer Fallrekonstruktionen von vier "problembelasteten" Jugendlichen die sozialen und lebensgeschichtlichen Konstellationen aufgezeigt, zum anderen zeigt es, wie mit Hilfe einer konsequent biographisch-narrativen Gesprächsführung nicht nur biographisches Fremdverstehen bzw.
Lebensläufe sind in Veränderung begriffen, und diese Veränderungen besitzen erhebliche Auswirkungen auf Planung, Verlauf und Interpretation von lebenslangem Entwicklungsgeschehen.
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.
Der demografische Wandel, veränderte Arbeits- und Lebensformen, eine zunehmende Altersarmut… Das System der Alterssicherung steht aktuell vor vielfältigen Herausforderungen, was dazu führt, dass die Frage nach einer gerechten Rente für viele Menschen von existenzieller Bedeutsamkeit ist.
After hearing the words no one wants to hear--"e;you have cancer"e;--Jim Burns set out to articulate the most important principles for a life well lived and now shares them with you as a collection of essential truths for a healthy, balanced, and successful life.
In Raised under Stalin, Seth Bernstein shows how Stalin's regime provided young people with opportunities as members of the Young Communist League or Komsomol even as it surrounded them with violence, shaping socialist youth culture and socialism more broadly through the threat and experience of war.
This collection brings together perspectives drawn from a range of international scholars who have conducted research into the applications of neo-tribal theory.
Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the Left Behind series are but the latest manifestations of American teenagers' longstanding fascination with the supernatural and the paranormal.
This collection reflects on the emerging phenomenon of 'selfie citizenship', which capitalises on individual visibility and agency, at the time when citizenship itself is increasingly governed through biometrics and large-scale dataisation.
When we focus on children and adolescents younger than 18 years, we have an opportunity to intervene through policy and practice aimed at improving the quality of life and opportunities to thrive.
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.
Das Handbuch informiert umfassend über die Literatur für Kinder und Jugendliche in verschiedenen Medien und fasst den Stand der Forschung in diesem Bereich sowohl diachron als auch synchron zusammen.
Have your students mastered the underlining theory and skills of coaching practice but wanting to get a flavour of what coaching actually looks like in different real-life settings?
Today, concerns about the financial stability of Social Security, trends in disability, health care costs, and the supply of caregivers are all driven by the coming explosion in the number of people over the age of 65.
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 .
This book explores the prevailing role of rites of passage, ritual, and ceremony in contemporary children's lives through the lens of modern-day incarnations of uniformed youth movements.
In a culture where so many people think of middle age as a downward slope into comfy sneakers and quiet, meaningless existence, we can redefine the second half of life, shaping it into decades of fulfillment, fun, strength, and purpose.
In this volume, acknowledged experts present state of the art reviews and empirical data on how aging affects personal communication, and how technology can contribute to improving communication efficacy.
The Advances in Child Behavior and Development series has a well-deserved reputation for publishing seminal articles that move established programs of developmental scholarship forward in creative new directions.