Product Description: Middle School Students are in a class all their own. Their hormones are raging. They want to fit in at all costs and may also be dealing with bullying. In these pages, teachers have classroom-friendly activities that will challenge their middle-level learners to think and behave differently, to learn to value differences in one another, and to work to actively prevent bullying...read more

Product Description: The generation who grew up in Britain immediately after the Second World War are popularly called 'The Baby Boomers'. As children, they experienced life in Britain from wartime austerity to the relative affluence of the late 1950s...read more

Product Description: What was it like being a teenager in a world without computers, smartphones, DVD players, games consoles, or the Internet? Imagine a time when sharing music meant taking a gramophone record to your friend's house; when making a quick phone call could involve lining up outside a telephone booth! This book offers an affectionate and lighthearted look at the fads and fashions, music, hobbies, and TV programs which defined the ’70s for many British youngsters...read more

Product Description: The FPT was formed in 2005 to improve interagency policy and service coordination to support all youth, including youth with disabilities, in successfully transitioning from school to adulthood. FPT brings together political, senior executive, and career staff from federal agencies across multiple systems to collaborate on transition issues...read more

Sean Howard is forced to choose between his responsibility for his paralyzed wife and his passionate love for another woman

Product Description: This updated book includes a special chapter on cyberbullying. This edition addresses the often devastating societal problem of bullying in our schools. It presents the necessary information, training and guidance needed by the stakeholder groups Administrators and Pupil Services Staff, Teachers, Paraprofessionals, and Parents of the school community...read more

A leading educator discusses the importance of the first six years to a child's normal physical and emotional development

Product Description: Administration for Children and Families Directory Directory of Program Services U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families Directory of Program Services This directory is an important component to inform the public about the wide range of services ACF provides...read more

Product Description: This volume of Research in the Sociology of Work starts with a deceptively simple question of, 'Do events and experiences during adolescence influence the work outcomes of individuals when they reach adulthood?' While at first glance simple, the question has a wide range of theoretical and practical implications, which are covered in a compelling set of contributions...read more

Product Description: Adolescent Identity and Schooling: Diverse Perspectives examines a range of issues related to student adjustment and achievement through research on student identity. Drawn from leading experts in psychology and sociology, it attends to important contemporary topics in educational and developmental psychology...read more

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Product Description: Esta obra muestra muchos casos distintos explorados en los juzgados y fiscalías de menores, elegidos por su innegable interés y por sus características diferenciales que los hacen relevantes y que permiten constatar la evolución que se ha producido desde la Ley de 1948 a la de 1992, y la vigente del 2000...read more

Product Description: In this lively examination of youth and their relationship to music, first published in 1994, contributors cover issues ranging from the place of music in urban subculture and what music tells us about adolescent views on love and sex, to the political status of youth and youth culture...read more

Product Description: This set reissues a host of previously out-of-print books that focus on the phenomenon of popular music in all its many guises. From the early days of professional songwriting, to the innovations of jazz and blues then the cultural revolution of rock 'n' roll, this set forms an essential reference collection that takes us up to the modern art/style/music culture crossovers, including a detailed analysis of the visual portrayal of music via its videos...read more

Product Description: This exploration of the experiences of adopting parents and children offers unusual insight into adoption’s complexity and its profound impact on family life. Based on the author’s research in Germany, where she lived and taught, The Adopted Child has a great deal to say about child rearing and identity, as well as offering insights into similarities and differences in family life and adoption in Germany and the United States...read more

Product Description: American literature abounds with orphans who experience adoption or placements that resemble adoption. These stories do more than recount adventures of children living away from home. They tell an American story of family and national identity...read more

Product Description: International adoptions have decreased dramatically in the last decade, despite robust evidence of the tremendous benefits that early placement in adoptive families can confer upon children who are not able to remain with birth families...read more

Product Description: It is now over 20 years since 'open adoption' was first introduced, but it remains a controversial and contested part of social work practice. This innovative and far ranging book sets out to understand why the practice of keeping adopted children in touch with their kinship origins is still so questioned in contemporary adoption work...read more

The first book-length study of adoption in Japan, this impressive work tackles the innovative and sometimes controversial subject of the policies of adoption agencies in Japan. The book places special adoption in the context of a liberal reformist agenda that has challenged traditional concepts of the family through the efforts to place children with difficult family backgrounds, including mixed and minority ethnic backgrounds. Drawing on empirical source material gathered since the late 1980s, the authors consider the central policy issue of whether agencies should be given a free hand to create their own policies, or whether they should be more tightly regulated. Finally, the book analyzes how different agency strategies for finding homes for hard to place children are related to different assumptions about the psychology and reasoning of prospective parents. Adoption in Japan makes a significant contribution to the academic literature in the fields of Japanese studies, public policy, social work and sociology. It will also be of interest to professionals involved in adoption agencies, specialist social work and adoption panels.

Product Description: Adult Supervision Required considers the contradictory ways in which contemporary American culture has imagined individual autonomy for parents and children. In many ways, today’s parents and children have more freedom than ever before...read more