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Télécharger le livre :  The Autonomous Child
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The Autonomous Child


Ivar Frønes


The social sciences offer a variety of theories on how children develop, and various theories and disciplines apply their own vocabularies and conceptualise different aspects of the processes of socialization. This book looks at the theorizing of socialization in...

Parution : 2015-10-14
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Télécharger le livre :  The PROSPER School Pathways for Student Wellbeing
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The PROSPER School Pathways for Student Wellbeing


Helen Mcgrath , Toni Noble


This brief defines student wellbeing and outlines seven evidence-informed pathways that schools can take to promote student wellbeing and  develop their school as an enabling institution. The acronym PROSPER is applied as an organizer for both the psychological elements...

Parution : 2015-09-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Victims of Obtrusive Violence
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Victims of Obtrusive Violence


G.K. Lieten


This volume describes how children’s experience with violence may affect and endanger their education, as well as their physical safety and their general well-being. It includes all forms of physical , psychological and sexual abuse, and neglect against children at...

Parution : 2015-08-21
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Télécharger le livre :  The Nature and Function of Intuitive Thought and Decision Making
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The Nature and Function of Intuitive Thought and Decision Making


Lauri Järvilehto


This book focuses on the very nature and function of intuitive thought. It presents an up-to-date scientific model on how the non-conscious and intuitive thought processes work in human beings. The model is based on mainstream theorizing on intuition, as well as...

Parution : 2015-05-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Ancient Views on the Quality of Life
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Ancient Views on the Quality of Life


Alex C. Michalos


This monograph describes the contributions to our current understanding of quality of life made by the most important ancient philosophers in the Western Tradition. It does so from the point of view of a contemporary researcher in quality of life or human well-being....

Parution : 2015-04-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Spiritual Well-Being of Chinese Older Adults
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Spiritual Well-Being of Chinese Older Adults


Vivian W. Q. Lou


There are several unique features of this book on the spiritual well-being of Chinese older adults. First, based on qualitative methodology, a conceptual model of spiritual well-being was proposed. Besides, through a Delphi study, different dimensions of spiritual...

Parution : 2015-02-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding Other-Oriented Hope
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Understanding Other-Oriented Hope


Andrew J. Howell , Denise J. Larsen


This Brief integrates the literature and research on other-oriented hope. It discusses the position of other-oriented hope as one manifestation of the broader attribute of other-interest and argues the importance of other-interest in well-being. The Brief examines...

Parution : 2015-01-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Learning and Community Approaches for Promoting Well-Being
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Learning and Community Approaches for Promoting Well-Being


Youngwha Kee , Yunji Kim , Rhonda Phillips


This Brief provides perspectives on bringing together elements of learning and community approaches for promoting overall wellbeing. Drawing on experiences of authors from across Asia, Europe, and North America, cases are presented to illustrate both policy and...

Parution : 2015-01-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Community Well-Being and Community Development
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Community Well-Being and Community Development


Yunji Kim , Seung Jong Lee , Rhonda Phillips


This briefs provides foundations of both community wellbeing and community development, and the relationships between the two areas, including both similarities and differences. Community well-being encompasses a large array of concepts and disciplines. Community...

Parution : 2014-12-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Child Street Life
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Child Street Life


G.K. Lieten , Talinay Strehl


This brief studies the phenomenon of street children in two cities in Peru. It looks at some of the conceptual issues and, after analysing why children are in the street and what behaviour and which aspirations they exhibit, deals with the policy issues and lessons to...

Parution : 2014-10-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Data-Based Child Advocacy
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Data-Based Child Advocacy


William P. O'hare


This book locates, organizes and summarizes information about the use of child indicators in an advocacy context. It provides a conceptual framework that allows readers to see a wide variety of work as part of a unified field. It provides a description of key concepts...

Parution : 2014-07-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Flourishing Children
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Flourishing Children


Collectif


This volume presents the results of the Flourishing Children Project. The study addressed gaps in the research on indicators of positive development of adolescents. Such indicators are essential for the balanced and scientifically sound study of adolescents. Yet...

Parution : 2014-07-08
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Télécharger le livre :  The Transitory Nature of Parent, Sibling and Romantic Partner Relationships in Emerging Adulthood
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The Transitory Nature of Parent, Sibling and Romantic Partner Relationships in Emerging Adulthood


Jillian Guldin , Avidan Milevsky , Kristie Thudium


This volume provides a theoretical and empirical review of the societal and educational factors that contribute to ‘emerging adulthood’.This developmental stage occurs between adolescence and adulthood and can be regarded as a relatively new phase in research on...

Parution : 2014-05-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Pursuit of Happiness and the Traditions of Wisdom
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The Pursuit of Happiness and the Traditions of Wisdom


Vincenzo Giorgino


This book presents a discussion of happiness that takes the shape of a dialogue between contemplative knowledge and practice or the wisdom traditions and the social sciences. It examines the different definitions of happiness in relation to wisdom traditions and the...

Parution : 2014-03-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Human Suffering and Quality of Life
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Human Suffering and Quality of Life


Ronald E. Anderson


This briefs on human suffering adds to human understanding of suffering by contextualizing both stories and statistics on suffering, while showing that suffering adds a useful perspective to contemporary thought and research on quality of life, social well-being, and...

Parution : 2013-10-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Well-Being, Resilience and Quality of Life from Children's Perspectives
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Well-Being, Resilience and Quality of Life from Children's Perspectives


Silvia Exenberger , Barbara Juen


This book explores the broad view on child well-being and the quality of life research. It starts with a discussion of the origin of the social indicator movement and a review of literature on the concepts of quality of life, (subjective) well-being and resilience. It...

Parution : 2013-10-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Emotional Processing Deficits and Happiness
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Emotional Processing Deficits and Happiness


Mark D. Holder , Linden R. Timoney


This briefs reviews the literature on alexithymia with a particular focus on the relation between positive well-being and alexithymia. It starts by exploring the definition, history and etiology of the construct. The briefs then discusses the importance of research and...

Parution : 2013-07-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Studies in the Quality of Life in Victorian Britain and Ireland
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Studies in the Quality of Life in Victorian Britain and Ireland


Thomas E. Jordan


This work examines mortality among young children in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. It does so using several types and sources of information from the census unit England and Wales, and from Ireland. The sources of information used in this...

Parution : 2013-05-24
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Télécharger le livre :  An Anthropological Journey into Well-Being
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An Anthropological Journey into Well-Being


Melania Calestani


This volume is a unique contribution to the exploration of a new perspective in the study of well-being, which tries to overcome the quantification bias by creating an account of ‘the good life’ in a specific place. Rather than numbers, this research focuses on local...

Parution : 2012-11-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Accomplishing Permanency: Reunification Pathways and Outcomes for Foster Children
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Accomplishing Permanency: Reunification Pathways and Outcomes for Foster Children


Elizabeth Fernandez


Reunification is a primary goal of foster care systems and the most common permanency planning decision. It is defined as the return of children placed in protective care to the home of their birth family and used to describe the act of restoring a child in out-of-home...

Parution : 2012-09-13
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