Age groups and generations

This book considers the issues facing contemporary Japan as it struggles to adapt its employment system to the global economy.

Adult adoptee and family therapist Katie Naftzger shares her personal and professional wisdom in this guide to help adoptive parents remain a calm parental influence in the midst of stormy and erratic teen behavior.

This book explores what identity is, what factors contribute to it, how it develops, and the impacts that a strong or weak sense of self can have on a person's health, happiness, and future.

Crossing the traditional divide between social work with children and families and adults, this text applies a lifecourse perspective, within an ecological frame.

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"e;This new textbook creates a paradigm shift with a very practical approach to problem solving.

Abuse of the elderly -- physical, psychological, institutional, sexual, financial, and criminal victimization -- remained a largely undefined social problem until the end of the 1970s.

A broad review of how nonprofits, businesses, and governments work together to tackle social problemsNetworks for Social Impact takes a systems approach to explain how and when networks make a social impact.

Contemporary society has imposed a set of unrealistic and confusing rules for men over 18 to follow.

Equipping youth ministers with the tools of a crosscultural missionaryThe parallels between ministry within youth culture and global missions have long been touted by youth ministry experts, yet few resources exist to help youth workers benefit apply the insights of missiologists.

Die Diskussion um die Frage, ob der Nationalsozialismus und Holocaust als Thema für die Grundschule geeignet sei, wird in Deutschland seit etwa einem Jahrzehnt geführt.

This book explores the depiction of suicide in American youth films from 1900 to 2019.

Concerns about aging, old age security, and intergenerational relations existed long before youth culture and falling fertility became such popular media topics.

This international collection of personal and professional perspectives takes a fresh look at deinstitutionalization.

From good intentions to actual practicesimple spiritual habits for your home.

The politics of old age in the twenty first century is contentious, encompassing ideological debates about the rights and welfare entitlements of individuals in later life.

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From time to time we all tend to wonder what sort of “story” our life might comprise: what it means, where it is going, and whether it hangs together as a whole.

El Chavo del Ocho is one of the most influential pieces of popular culture to have hit Latin America in the last 50 years, having, at the peak of its popularity in the mid-1970s, reached an approximate audience of 350 million across the Americas.

The question of how boys become men or how girls become women may seem simple, but the answers can be complex.

Domestic Violence, Family Law and School discusses the ways in which family law disputes in cases of domestic violence can impact on children's lives at pre-school and school.

What factors contribute to the making of a youthful sexual offender?

"e;[This] book's unfading preoccupation with social context, social processes, and social structures distinguishes itself and greatly contributes to the discourse in gerontology.

Remote Fieldwork Supervision for BCBA(R) Trainees prepares BCBAs for supervising certification candidates, providing structure, scope, and sequence for supervision, as well as tactical recommendations for providing independent fieldwork supervision in a distance context.

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

The killing of new-born children is an intensely emotional and emotive subject.

This one-of-a kind book challenges the current thinking about black girls to show how America has failed them-and what can be done to make their lives better.

In 1933 and 1934, Thomas Minehan, a young sociologist at the University of Minnesota, joined the ranks of a roving army of 250,000 boys and girls torn from their homes during the Great Depression.

A wide-ranging and multidisciplinary introduction to the key topics in ageing, for students of gerontology.

Transcultural Teens provides readers with a window onto the cultural and linguistic creativity of the housing projects, or cit , that ring Paris, showing how young people of Algerian Arab origins play with language in fascinating ways that subvert commonly held notions of intercultural animosity.

Targeted as the 'grey consumer', people retiring now participated in the creation of the post-war consumer culture.

Many can attest to the importance of the self-growth that occurs for young people through the arts and their accompanying communities of support, understanding, and caring.

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The 1990s and 2000s were especially difficult decades for government–public sector union relations in Canada.

In an age when the Dalai Lama's image has been used to sell computers, rock stars have used tantra to enhance their image, and for many, Nirvana calls to mind a a favorite band, what does Buddhism mean to twenty-somethings?

This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village.

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.

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When children and adults apply for disability benefits and claim that a visual impairment has limited their ability to function, the U.

The saying "e;it takes a village to raise a child"e; is especially true for families with special needs children.

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

Paradox for Life Review explains how older adults' levels of self-esteem become the lens through which they review their reminiscences.

This book explores the generational experience of children of immigrants growing up in an increasingly globalized and interconnected world, comparing the lives of Mediterranean youths with those from America and Northern Europe.

This book presents a unique annotated collection of some 2000 playground games, rhymes, and wordplay of London children.

Giving voice to the lived experiences of people with dementia across the globe, including Australia, Canada, Sweden and the UK, this critical and evidence-based collection engages with the realities of life for people living with dementia at home and within their neighbourhoods.

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