Age groups and generations

Always in the process of becoming, inherently incomplete, the child is a remarkably malleable figure.

What constitutes real recovery for adult victims of abuse?

Despite increased awareness of sexual diversity, older people's accounts of sex and intimacy remain marginalised.

When players play, there is a transactional process at work, whether for children on a teeter-totter or pandas playing with peers.

This book provides concrete scientific basis that we can conceive the possibility of modifying or even completely canceling aging process, despite the fact that aging is commonly regarded as the result of the overall effects of many uncontrollable degenerative phenomena.

Parents can easily be confused when they suspect that their child may have a developmental delay.

Small children are regularly captivated by programmes made especially for them - ranging from classics like Sesame Street to more recent arrivals such as Blues Clues and Teletubbies .

Personal life narratives can serve as a rich source of new insights into the experience of human aging.

The postwar years in the UK saw the development of numerous artificial playgrounds intended to compensate children for increasing urbanization and a lack of wild places to play.

Parents can easily be confused when they suspect that their child may have a developmental delay.

In Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies, Dorothy E.

Just a few generations ago, serious illness, like hazardous weather, arrived with little warning, and people either lived through it or died.

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Children who miss substantial amounts of school pose one of the most vexing problems for school officials.

Thirty-five million Americans are living beyond the age of sixty-five, a twenty-five year increase in life expectancy since 1900.

The Neuroscience of Autism provides a comprehensive accounting of autism spectrum disorders by integrating scientific findings from behavioral, cognitive and neurobiological research.

This edited collection traces the evolution of writing, retelling, and critically reading children's and young adult tales over decades of cultural, social, and technological changes.

Frank Derrick is eighty-one.

This provocative critique of the youth sports movement examines the various issues surrounding children in sports and provides a plan for reform based on a change in philosophy and practice.

Children today are growing up in a world of global media.

Camps often provide children with a first taste of independence and freedom from the restrictions of home and school while offering a milieu full of opportunities for psychosocial development, creative interaction, and mutual aid.

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Ditch the devices and bring back the magic of being a kid Screens are everywhere.

It seems that nearly everyone knows a family with an autism spectrum child.

The postwar years in the UK saw the development of numerous artificial playgrounds intended to compensate children for increasing urbanization and a lack of wild places to play.

This resource provides a wide-ranging survey of the past, present, and future of youth activism in the USA and around the world.

Case Studies in Lifespan Development offers students a comprehensive view into life's key developmental stages through unique, diverse, and moving cases.

The growth of the American high school that occurred in the twentieth century is among the most remarkable educational, social, and cultural phenomena of the twentieth century.

In 1990, disturbing television footage emerged showing the inhumane conditions in which children in Romanian institutions were living.

Teens, Loss, and Grief is a self-help guide for teenagers who are struggling with bereavement and the emotional difficulties it presents.

Parenting is difficult under the best of circumstances--but extremely daunting when humanity faces cataclysmic annihilation.

What is dementia?

As the average life expectancy continues to rise, the long-held assumption that age is a protective factor against criminal offending and victimisation is being challenged.

The 20th Century has been marked by enormous change in terms of how we define race.

This book discusses gerontological issues and challenges impacting the quality of life of older people in India.

Explains the most effective ways to discuss the legal and financial responsibilities that come with the end of life and tools for managing them-such as wills, trusts, estate planning, and cash management-in the context of financial psychology.

This book explores the ways in which adolescents in Nigeria domesticate technology and the role of digital gatekeepers such as parents, guardians, and teachers in their digital lifeworlds.

Sexting Panic illustrates how anxieties about technology and teen girls' sexuality distract from critical questions about how to adapt norms of privacy and consent for new media.

During his thirty years with the Institute of Child Study of the University of Toronto the late Dr.

Despite recent advances in our understanding of the genetic basis of human behavior, little of this work has penetrated into formal demography.

Many European countries, their imperial territories, and rapidly Europeanising imitators like Japan, established a powerful zone of intellectual, ideological and moral convergence in the projection of state power and collective objectives to children.

This book uniquely operationalizes "e;sustainable ageing"e; as a concept for reimagining ways by which: (1) social and health threats (i.

The importance of high quality early childhood education is now universally recognised, and this quality crucially depends upon the practitioners who work with our young children, and their deep understanding of how children develop and learn.

As the demographics of the United States shift toward a population that is made up of an increasing percentage of older adults and people with disabilities, the workforce that supports and enables these individuals is also shifting to meet the demands of this population.

Rethinking Children, Violence and Safeguarding explores the victimization of children as well as children who use violence towards others and presents an overview of key developments in research, policy and practice within the context of the recent major shift in thinking from 'child protection' towards 'safeguarding' and evidencing better outcomes.

Der Autor untersucht in seiner videobasierten Studie den bislang vernachlässigten Bereich der praktischen Gestaltung des Übergangs in die Schule – und das mit einem innovativen methodischen Vorgehen (dokumentarisch fokussierende Ethnographie), mit präzisen Rekonstruktionen von Praktiken der Übergangsgestaltung sowie des handlungsleitenden Wissens von LehrerInnen.