Product Description: Bringing together academic and practitioner points of view, this edited collection shows how violence enters into ordinary, routine practices of childhood and children's experiences. The contributing authors seek to understand how violence is enacted against children in infancy, adolescence, in school, in care, at home and on the street...read more

This revised text provides updates that reflect new findings in the field of media violence research during childhood and adolescence. Throughout the book, special attention is paid to evaluating the role of developmental processes and to stressing the importance of methodology in understanding media violence research. Findings have been divided into two main areas: aggressive behavior and aggression-related constructs (e.g., emotions, cognitions, arousal) to help clarify media violence-related effects on youth.

Product Description: About CQ Researcher ReadersIn the tradition of nonpartisan and current analysis that is the hallmark of CQ Press, CQ Researcher readers investigate important and controversial policy issues. Childhood and Adolescence in Society aims to promote in-depth discussion, facilitate further research, and help readers formulate their own positions on crucial issues in the field, such as child soldiers, teen pregnancy, and violence and bullying...read more

Product Description: Offering a systematic approach to evidence-based assessment and planning for children living with trauma and family violence, this practical book shows how to assess and analyse the needs of the child, make specialist assessments where there are continuing safeguarding concerns (using the Assessment Framework) and plan effective child-centred and outcome-focused interventions...read more

Product Description: This book empowers parents, educators, and counselors to prevent youth violence by teaching the thinking skills necessary for children and teens to deal with anger and frustration in healthy, productive ways. A longtime psychologist and counselor - as well as parent and past teacher - Jones-Smith offers research and vignettes to recognize the growing problem of youth violence, understand its causes, and help adults closest to children know techniques to nurture non-violence as a way of life...read more

Product Description: In the past decade, children's exposure to violence has attracted more public interest and media attention than ever before. But addressing this problem requires more than concern and news coverage-it requires a comprehensive, focused research agenda...read more

Looks at the history of youth crime and violence, discusses victimization and school safety, and explores the impact of gangs and punishment.

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Product Description: Stripping away the hype, this book describes how, when, and why media violence can influence children of different ages, giving parents and teachers the power to maximize the media's benefits and minimize its harm.• Includes the newest research on topics of particular concern today, including cyber-bullying, video games, song lyrics, and brain development• Covers all major media, including television, movies, music, video games, and the Internet• Describes the psychological processes through which media violence influences attitudes, emotions, and behaviors• Provides the context necessary to understand why media violence does not affect everyone the same way• Discusses how media violence intersects with public policy, identifies the problems with the existing rating systems, and suggests strategies to improve the situation and foster children's healthy developmen...read more

Drawing on the latest reserach and expert opinion, a journalist offers parents valuable, compassionate advice on how to help children deal with the harsh realities of the modern world, explaining how to discuss difficult issues with children and how to raise children with love, honesty, confidence, and self-reliance. 75,000 first printing.

Product Description: Childhood is a brand new series of textbooks, co-published with The Open University which represents a coherent and integrated treatment of a wide range of topics and approaches, which will have a relevance to courses in childhood studies; sociology; psychology; anthropology and cultural studies as well as education and social policy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This book examines children′s experiences and perspectives on living with domestic violence. It offers a detailed explanation of the impact on children living with domestic violence, how children make sense of and cope with their experiences, the response they receive from various agencies and the fit between what children feel they need and what in reality they receive...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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