Discarding musical jargon, Evans explains how notes are named, how they are written, and how to read a melody, discusses lesser-known musical signs and words, and provides a handy dictionary of terms

Product Description: This landmark volume focuses on the promotion of healthy adolescent sexuality. Professionals in social service and mental health settings, as well as teachers and other helping professionals, can apply these practical intervention strategies--drawn from research and practical experience--to educate adolescents and to prevent sex-related problems...read more

Product Description: The 1970s witnessed a growing concern and awareness regarding child abuse, an awareness which gradually extended to include the maltreatment of adolescents. In the 1980s a number of intervention projects dealing with this particular problem were started...read more

Product Description: The ten chapters that make up this volume not only cover a broad range of key substantive issues in adolescent research (e.g., ego, development, identity formation, self-esteem, pubertal development, cognitive development, deviant behavior, religiosity, and academic achievement), but as a whole they illustrate some of the key theoretical and methodological trends occuring in parent-adolescent research...read more

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Product Description: How many times do parents have questions about their child's emotional or behavioral health that need explanation? Here is a comprehensive resource for child and adolescent development questions. Answers are descriptive, presented in a user-friendly style, and include information based on more than 50 years of combined child and family counseling experience...read more

Combining interviews and sociological analysis, the author constructs a portrait of gay and lesbian teenagers in America as embattled people who courageously face the abuse of their peers and their own isolation. Original.

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Product Description: The new edition of this superb reference contains additional information on such management issues as cost control, waste control, inventory, and pricing strategies, and covers such new topics as environmental impact and professional behavior...read more

Product Description: A comprehensive resource for child--and adolescent--developing questions.

Thirteen chapters written by some of America's top youth speakers offer advice for teenagers struggling to make sense of a confusing time of life

Product Description: This book explain the vectors and influences that shape our children's lives. It provides explanations and approaches to raising emotionally healthy children. Their families can benefit from the knowledge in dealing with the problems that may arise as the child grows through the successive stages of development...read more

Tells when and how to tell children about sex, and covers modesty, individual rights, reproduction, puberty, sexual standards, abstinence, sexually transmitted diseases, contraception, dating, and marriage (view table of contents)

Product Description: Here is a great amount of information about your child and children from infancy up. 641 pages full of information and pictures.

Product Description: Practical parenting ideas for kids from ages 13 to 19Helping teenagers navigate the rocky years between childhood and adulthood has always been a parenting challenge--a challenge that has only grown more difficult in today's fast-paced society...read more

They're fighting for our kids, and the battleground is the street!In 1956, the Boston Special Youth Project defined the field of detached youthwork this way: “Detached work involves intensive contact with a corner-group where the worker meets the teen-age group in their natural environment. By close association with them and getting to know their needs as a group and as individuals, the worker forms a positive relationship and helps them to engage in socially acceptable activities which they come to choose. The basic goal is helping them to change undesirable attitudes and patterns of behavior.”Today, author and youthworker Jacquelyn Kay Thompson brings this exciting, heartbreaking and often dangerous profession to light in Caring on the Streets: A Study of Detached Youthworkers. The book examines the demanding task of assisting runaways, gang members, prostitutes, drug addicts, and other troubled youths and explores how the profession is practiced in the United States. Here are true-life stories of the courageous, caring individuals whose professional life is spent on the streets, in bars, pool halls, motels, housing projects, and hangouts “where the kids are.” In addition to sharing the personal experience of detached workers, Caring on the Streets illuminates these facets of the profession: history of detached youthwork methodology and philosophy of detached youthwork model programs research procedures for youthworkers becoming a detached youthworker ...and more!Caring on the Streets contains interviews with seventeen youthworkers who assist clients outside of formal office settings to give you insight into the experiences, challenges, and dedication of detached youthworkers. This thoughtfully-indexed work also includes reference notes and five appendixes. (view table of contents)

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: This publication provides adaptable training exercises and handouts for workers training young people to undertake social research. Topics covered include: setting aims and objectives; choosing and designing research methods; ethical issues; taking part in analysis and report writing; and learner needs, support and evaluation...read more

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