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Childhood, well-being and a therapeutic ethos [electronic resource] / editors, Richard House and Del Loewenthal.

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by House, Richard.
Call Number 155.4 22
Publication Date 2009
Summary "All is clearly not well with children's well-being in the Anglo-Saxon West, as witnessed by a steady stream of research reports that place children's well-being in the UK and the USA very near, if not at, the bottom of international tables. This mounting cultural and political concern for children's well-being has been buttressed by high-profile media interest in the "toxic childhood" theme popularized by author Sue Palmer, and highlighted in the Open Letter published by the Daily Telegraph; and the chapters in this important new book arose directly from the addresses given by prominent Open Letter signatories to an expert seminar organized by Roehampton University's Research Centre for Therapeutic Education in December 2006." "A key theme of this book is that we urgently need a therapeutic ethos in order to bring both educational and therapeutic sensibilities to bear on the issue of children's wellbeing, if truly effective and appropriate policy responses to the current malaise are to be fashioned. Not least, we must pay particular attention to childhood experience, showing that scientific and technical developments are always secondary to the resources of the human soul, if we are to minimize the extent to which today's children will need therapy as adults. This will entail moving beyond narrowly mechanistic definitions of, and ways of thinking about, "well-being" and the psychological therapies. This book offers pointers to the kinds of arguments that can inform what is rapidly becoming a central concern of politicians and policy-makers." "A unique book in the field, Childhood, Well-being and A Therapeutic Ethos will be core cross-disciplinary reading in a range of academic and training contexts, including within Education, Psychology and Sociology departments, on early childhood studies and policy studies modules and degrees, and on child and other psychotherapy and counselling trainings."--Jacket.
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The Well-being, peer cultures and rights of children [electronic resource] / edited by Loretta E. Bass, David A. Kinney.

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by Bass, Loretta Elizabeth.
Call Number 302.23
Publication Date 2011
Summary These empirical studies include children's voices and experiences from four continents and highlight how structure and culture both limit and enable the life chances of children, how children interpret and construct their social relations and environments, and how children view themselves as well as how others view the rights of children.
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Learning to be confident, determined and caring [electronic resource] / Karen Brunskill.

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by Brunskill, Karen.
Call Number 372.21 22
Publication Date 2006
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Relationships and learning [electronic resource] : caring for children from birth to three / Anna Gillespie Edwards.

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by Edwards, Anna Gillespie.
Call Number 372.21 22
Publication Date 2002
Summary A report by NCB's Early Childhood Unit, highlighting the importance of one-to-one relationships with young children for fostering their well-being and their ability to learn.
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Children at the millennium : where have we come from, where are we going? / edited by Sandra L. Hofferth, Timothy J. Owens.

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by Owens, Timothy J. (Timothy Joseph)
Call Number 305.23 22
Publication Date 2001
Summary Produced under the auspices of the "Section on the Sociology of Children and Youth of the American Sociological Association", this volume provides a cohesive, wide-ranging source of information on the life courses of children and youths. Contributions reflect: demographic analyses and projections; dualitative aspects of children's lives; children and youth in historical and cross-cultural perspective; issues of development in social context; children and public policy; and social and psychological dynamics of childhood and adolescence.
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The ecology of childhood : how our changing world threatens children's rights / Barbara Bennett Woodhouse.

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by Woodhouse, Barbara Bennett, 1945- author.
Call Number 323.352 23
Publication Date 2020
Summary "The Ecology of childhood explores the topics of environmental sustainability and children's rights"--Provided by publisher. "How globalization is undermining sustainable social environments for children This book uses the ecological model of child development together with ethnographic and comparative studies of two small villages, in Italy and the United States, as its framework for examining the well-being of children in the aftermath of the Great Recession. Global forces, far from being distant and abstract, are revealed as wreaking havoc in children's environments even in economically advanced countries. Falling birth rates, deteriorating labor conditions, fraying safety nets, rising rates of child poverty, and a surge in racism and populism in Europe and the United States are explored in the petri dish of the village. Globalism's discontents--unrestrained capitalism and technological change, rising inequality, mass migration, and the juggernaut of climate change--are rapidly destabilizing and degrading the social and physical environments necessary to our collective survival and well-being. This crisis demands a radical restructuring of our macrosystemic value systems. Woodhouse proposes an ecogenerist theory that asks whether our policies and politics foster environments in which children and families can flourish. It proposes, as a benchmark, the family-supportive human-rights principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The book closes by highlighting ways in which individuals can engage at the local and regional levels in creating more just and sustainable worlds that are truly fit for children."
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Applied developmental science [electronic resource] : an advanced textbook / editors Richard M. Lerner, Francine Jacobs, Donald Wertlieb.

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by Jacobs, Francine Helene.
Call Number 305.231 22
Publication Date 2005
Summary A course textbook adapted from the 4 volume 'Handbook of Applied Developmental Science', this work brings together the latest in theory & application from applied developmental science & the positive psychology movement for students going on to careers working with youth & their families.
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