Age groups and generations

A demographic futurist explains the coming Super Agewhen there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age of eighteenand explores what it could mean for our collective future.

Applying interdisciplinary perspectives about everyday life to vital issues in the lives of older people, this book maps together the often taken-for-granted aspects of what it means to age in an ageist society.

Screen-obsessed: Parenting in the Digital Age is the first book solely focusing on parental supervision of children's media use.

Young people who feel marginalized due to physical differences or disabilities may benefit from discovering fictional characters who face similar difficulties.

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

* What happens to childhood when the nature of adulthood becomes uncertain?

This book systematically explores the lives and varied experiences of older people in South Africa.

Doing Ethical Research with Children is an invaluable resource for all student and practitioner-researchers who wish to honour children as active agents and significant voices in research.

Drawing on current scholarship and research by authors with experience of a range of International contexts who are experts in their field, this accessible guide focuses on approaches that encourage spiritual, physical, mental and emotional development in children.

Written by a former Olympic consultant, this book examines youth sports in America today, from institutions that dominate organized youth sports to high-profile controversies ranging from burnout and out-of-control parents to the health risks of youth football.

At a time of significant local, national, and international change, in which children are already actively involved, it seems not only right but necessary that we should be seeking to further our knowledge and understanding of what informs and shapes meaningful and effective practice for and with children.

For anyone studying childhood or families, a consideration of the state may not always seem obvious, yet a good critical knowledge of politics, social policy and social theory is vital to understanding their impacts upon families' everyday lives.

What do you do when your son announces he is transgender and asks that you call her by a new name?

This book powerfully sets out the case for Transitional Safeguarding, a new approach to protection and safeguarding designed to address the needs and behaviours of young people in their mid-teens to mid-twenties who are falling between gaps in current systems, with often devastating results.

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"e;For me, getting older physically seems to be epitomized in the feeling that I look like my mother.

This 2002 book provides descriptions of adolescence in eight very different regions of the world.

Nearly two-thirds of American women with children under age six are in the labor force.

In Uncivil Youth, Soo Ah Kwon explores youth of color activism as linked to the making of democratic citizen-subjects.

Digitale Assistenztechnologien sollen ältere Menschen   unterstützen, auch bei altersbedingten Einschränkungen möglichst lange selbstbestimmt leben zu können.

This book examines the lives of adolescent girls in early Roman imperial society (first century BCE to third century CE).

This book does exactly what it says on the tin!

Das Buch leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Ursachenforschung bezüglich der Entstehung rechtsextremer Einstellungen Jugendlicher aus Ost- und Westdeutschland.

Taking a transnational approach to the study of film culture, this book draws on ethnographic fieldwork in a South Korean university film club to explore a cosmopolitan cinephile subculture that thrived in an ironic unevenness between the highly nationalistic mood of commercial film culture and the intense neoliberal milieu of the 2000s.

»Jugend« ist als Element einer Krisensemantik zu sehen, die um die moderne Individualität zirkuliert.

In the summer of 1996, Ruth Ray, a gerontologist in her forties, befriended an eighty-two-year-old man suffering from Parkinson's.

EMDR Therapy is a psychotherapy approach based on standard procedures and protocols.

Winner of the Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award 2021.

This volume brings together leading scholars on immigrant youth to discuss current research and its implications for policy and intervention.

Continuing in the tradition of the first edition, Whitbourneis identity process model serves to integrate the physiological with a psychological perspective.

This book examines after-school programs, exploring how – and why – young people thrive in good programs and suffer in weak ones.

++ Nominiert für den Deutschen Sachbuchpreis 2025 ++Die alternde Gesellschaft ist weder kindergerecht noch ist sie gerecht zu Kindern.

Das Buch liefert erstmals einen systematischen Überblick über die theoretischen und forschungsmethodischen Zugänge in der deutschen Kindheitsforschung und diskutiert auf der Basis neuerer Forschungsbefunde die Lebensbedingungen und Lebenslagen von Kindern in Deutschland.

Attachment Parenting describes a comprehensive approach to parenting children who have a history of neglect, abuse, orphanage care, or other experiences that may interfere with the normal development of attachment between parent and child.

"e;[This book] addresses issues on both sides of the Atlantic; examines the theoretical underpinnings of environmental gerontology.

Urban educational research, practice, and policy is preoccupied with problems, brokenness, stigma, and blame.

This interdisciplinary volume examines the challenges adolescents face and the self-regulation tools that most effectively ease the transition to adulthood.

The Electrified Mind helps therapists understand and empathize with patients who rely heavily upon cell phones and the internet for the purposes of self-expression as well as for defensive avoidance of actual interpersonal contact.

How do individuals perceive the experience of aging?

"e;Growing up with risk"e; provides a critical analysis of ways in which risk assessment and management - now a pervasive element of contemporary policy and professional practice - are defined and applied in policy, theory and practice in relation to children and young people.

Most in the United States likely associate the concept of the child bride with the mores and practices of the distant past.

Using psychological theory and the author's direct experience working with at-risk youth, this book answers the questions on the minds of anyone shocked and appalled by the events of the Boston Marathon bombings.

Nationally and internationally, we are being driven to reflect on how to respond to a changing world.

Screen-obsessed: Parenting in the Digital Age is the first book solely focusing on parental supervision of children's media use.

Makes the case that the social dynamics and turbulence of high school can disrupt educational trajectories after high school.

This book presents comparative evidence and case-studies on poor urban youth, providing interventions that have proven successful.

Written by a team of leading trainers, practitioners and supervisors, this bestselling classic is the trainee therapist's best friend.

This award-winning, bestselling reference for professional counselors and graduate students is extensively updated and expanded to encompass critical developments that are immediately relevant to the counseling professions, including the 2014 American Counseling Association Code of Ethics, CACREP/CORE accreditation standards, DSM-5, the Affordable Care Act, and many other important changes.