Social pediatrics complements the traditional practice of pediatrics by creating a network within the community that acts to empower children and their families.
This examination of the history, development, activities, successes, and limitations of the largest membership organization in the country will be of interest to anyone who belongs to or is curious about this sometimes-controversial group.
In recent years children have become an increasingly important consumer market, and there is growing concern about the 'commercialisation' of childhood.
An innovative, interdisciplinary anthology arguing that we are unable to fully understand slavery - then and now - without attending to children''s roles in slavery''s machinations.
Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern.
This fully revised and updated second edition provides a complete introduction to aging and mental health for psychology students taking courses in aging as well as for academics and practitioners working in the field of gerontology.
The newly retired are entering a time of life that is virtually uncharted, a time in which they are free from social expectations and, to a large extent, from obligations to others.
In Animals as Legal Beings, Maneesha Deckha critically examines how Canadian law and, by extension, other legal orders around the world, participate in the social construction of the human-animal divide and the abject rendering of animals as property.
Erstmals im deutschsprachigen Raum wird die Lebenswirklichkeit von Menschen, deren Älterwerden mit gesundheitlichen und gesellschaftlichen Stigmata verbunden ist, systematisch in den Blick genommen.
The concept of time in childhood and youth is discussed in two contradictory ways; first romanticized, as a time of play, innocence, and exploration - of learning through trial and error, and second, as a time restricted by tight societal and generational structures, such as chains of care, institutional and family timetables.
CPYU President Walt Mueller's critically acclaimed book, Understanding Today's Youth Culture, is widely recognized as one of the most thorough and comprehensive overviews of youth culture today.
This book explores disrupted youth cohesion in France within the context of multiple ongoing global economic, migratory, social, political, and security-related crises.
Teenagers, Sexual Health Information and the Digital Age examines the online resources available on teenagers, including games and digital interventions.
Im Zeichen der Inklusion rücken in verschiedenen Handlungsfeldern des Sozialwesens zunehmend die Schnittstellen zwischen den Hilfesystemen ins Blickfeld.
Current feminist debate finds itself at an impasse concerning the significance of magazines for adolescent girls- are they full of oppressive prescriptions of femininity, or celebrations of female-centred pleasure and resistance against the patriarchy?
This book presents the original concept of the 'dispositif of age', combining post-Foucauldian analytics of the dispositif, discourse and governmentality with the historical semantics of Reinhart Koselleck to explore the functions of the notion of youth in the regulation of social life.
Empirically based, the daily experience of adolescent black females is explicated within an explanatory model of social context and developmental theory.
Agency and Participation in Childhood and Youth presents new critical engagement in conceptualising the roles of youth agency and participation in education, development and the pursuit of social justice.
A powerful book for readers aiming to support trans youth that Booklist calls a "e;warm and generous book [that] will help a wide range of readers"e; and Publishers Weekly says is "e;a pragmatic program for parenting beyond the gender binary.
Im Zuge steigender gesellschaftlicher Unsicherheit sind soziale Kompetenzen zentral für eine gelungene Entwicklung von Kindern und Jugendlichen und Grundlage der sozialen Inklusion in einer diversen Zivilgesellschaft.
Alongside the world of everyday reality, the young child develops a rich imaginary world of child art, make-believe play, imaginary friends, fairy tales and magic.
"e;[This] book's unfading preoccupation with social context, social processes, and social structures distinguishes itself and greatly contributes to the discourse in gerontology.
This book engages non-digital role-playing games-such as table-top RPGs and live-action role-plays-in and from Japan, to sketch their possibilities and fluidities in a global context.
This book explores how mental illness is portrayed in 21st-century young adult fiction and how selected works can help teachers, librarians, and mental health professionals to more effectively address the needs of students combating mental illness.
