Age groups and generations

As family structures continue to evolve, aging relatives have caused increasing concern for family members as they attempt to manage complex issues such as health, caregiving, emotional and instrumental support, and intergenerational relationships.

This book offers strategic leaders with essential information for their most important role:  the change management function of positioning the organization for success into the future.

An invaluable resource for parents wishing to arm their children with the life skills necessary to succeed in a STEM-driven culture.

All teens today, born after 2000, were thrust into a world with challenges and opportunities non-existent for previous generations.

This volume focuses on the experience of growing old as it is linked to societal factors.

This edited volume traverses the spectrum of experiences that take place after children leave the family home and parents find themselves in the "e;empty nest"e; stage of life.

Adding to a growing body of knowledge about how the social-ecological dynamics of the Anthropocene affect human health, this collection presents strategies that both address core challenges, including climate change, stagnating economic growth, and rising socio-political instability, and offers novel frameworks for living well on a finite planet.

Das Buch führt ein in die Grundlagen, Themenvielfalt und Zugänge jugendsoziologischer Forschung.

Es geht nicht darum, möglichst lange zu leben, sondern gut länger zu leben.

Students in Discord fills a void in the professional literature concerning adolescents with emotional and behavioral disorders by providing theoretical information about psychiatric and psychological diagnoses with practical information about actual public school students who show both externalizing and internalizing disorders.

Surprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social world and imagine the future.

Foretaste of Heaven is a witness to the enabling grace of God in a time of grave illness.

What are the components of youth cultures today?

In Bureaucratic Manoeuvres, John Grundy examines profound transformations in the governance of unemployment in Canada.

With the rapidly growing demand for mental health care there is a need for efficient and effective psychological treatment options.

Co-written with psychologists and a college student who has experienced anxiety herself, this is a relatable and straightforward guide to managing worry in emerging adulthood.

Whilst assessment has long been central to the counselling process, with the recent moves towards evidence-based practice and increased regulation it is taking an increasingly pivotal role in service provision.

This practical resource demonstrates how all clinicians can broaden and enhance their work with children by integrating drawing into therapy.

Understanding Looked After Children is an accessible guide to understanding the mental health needs of children in foster care and the role of foster carers and support networks in helping these children.

From Consent to Coercion examines the increasing assault against trade union rights and freedoms in Canada by federal and provincial governments.

Children and youth, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, are experiencing lifestyle choices their parents never imagined and contributing to the transformation of ideals, traditions, education and adult child power dynamics.

Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children.

The title is an effective, manualized parent education programme'- Educational Book ReviewThis ground-breaking training programme has been developed in response to a real need for evidence-based early interventions for very young autistic children.

Seven million youngsters--one in four adolescents--have only limited potential for becoming productive adults because they are at high risk for encountering serious problems at home, in school, or in their communities.

Doody's Score: 91, 4 Stars"e;[This] book's unfading preoccupation with social context, social processes, and social structures distinguishes itself and greatly contributes to the discourse in gerontology.

The rapid growth of home health care has raised many unsolved issues and will have consequences that are far too broad for any one group to analyze in their entirety.

Here is a disguised but tragically accurate account of a 7-year-old boy who was repeatedly victimized by two uncles who penetrated him, required him under threat of violence to act upon them, and forced him to have sexual contact with his sister for their entertainment.

A moving collection of essays on aging and happinessDrawing on more than six decades' worth of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, Willard Spiegelman reflects with candid humor and sophistication on growing old.

This book examines how young people understand and live politics, using innovative research methods.

Knowledge under Construction investigates how young children develop spatial, geometric, and scientific thinking skills-particularly those associated with architecture.

The Campus Queen in Literature and Culture: Prom Queen Profiles explores the nuanced relationship between femininity and power and provides a scholarly framework for understanding the evolution of the prom queen's archetypal ubiquity.

This volume examines how Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths, or SOLHOT, a radical youth intervention, provides a space for the creative performance and expression of Black girlhood and how this creativity informs other realizations about Black girlhood and womanhood.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

This volume is the first major exploration of the issues relevant to young people who are affected by sexual exploitation and trafficking from a variety of critical perspectives.

Understanding Teenage Girls: Culture, Identity and Schooling focuses on a range of social phenomenon that impact the lives of adolescent females of color.

Adolescent development research and theory have tremendous potential to inform the work of high school teachers, counselors, and administrators.

In an age when the next generation have worse prospects than those of their parents, this book appraises the challenges young people face resulting from the instability of their lives.

Emerging Adults and Substance Use Disorder Treatment addresses how a societal shift in the timing of developmental tasks affects treatment outcomes for substance use disorders, which are among the most highly prevalent and costly mental health problems in the United States.

China, while maintaining high speed in economic growth, has made tremendous social progress since 2000, particularly in the provision of general education and health services.

Children born and raised on the religious fringe are a distinctive yet largely unstudied social phenomenon.

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.

I felt like a caged animal.

Understanding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is a useful introduction to the most common non-genetic learning disability, which is caused by alcohol consumption during pregnancy.

This book explores various aspects related to human longevity and aging beyond 100 years old.

In the light of the complex demographic shifts associated with late modernity and the impetus of neo-liberal politics, childhood continues all the more to operate as a repository for the articulation of diverse social and cultural anxieties.

Teen suicide has long been considered one of society's darkest secrets; the idea of troubled young people driven to take their own lives was a tragedy too horrible to contemplate, let alone talk about openly.

Radical youth work is gaining popularity as a means of teaching adults how, in collaboration with youth, they can challenge dominant ways of knowing.

As today's baby boomers reach retirement and old age, this timely study looks back at the first generation who aged in the British welfare state.

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