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Book SynopsisThis handbook offers comprehensive coverage of the topics that are relevant to the field of adolescent and young adult development. The APA Handbook of Adolescent and Young Adult Developmentreviews the many factors that impact youth development across varying themes including biological underpinnings, cognitive and emotive processes, development through social contexts and roles, diversity in adolescence and the transition to adulthood, risk behaviors and psychopathology, positive youth development, intervention and policy, and new directions. The expert co-editors have recruited a new generation of top scholars as chapter authors to ensure that this comprehensive guide is thorough, detailed, and invaluable to readers. The handbook is also integrative and incorporates diversity so that clinicians, graduate students, and researchers can gain further understanding and apply this knowledge to a wider range of the population. Table of ContentsEditorial Board About the Editors Contributors A Note From the Publisher Introduction: Adolescent and Young Adult Development in a Changing WorldLisa J. Crockett, Gustavo Carlo, John E. Schulenberg Part I. Biological Underpinnings Chapter 1. Puberty: Foundations, Findings, and the Future Lorah D. Dorn and Adriene M. Beltz Chapter 2. Brain Development During Adolescence and Early AdulthoodAmanda E. Guyer, Sarah J. Beard, and Joseph S. Venticinque Chapter 3. Gene–Environment Interplay in Adolescence and Early AdulthoodJenae M. Neiderhiser and Tong Chen Chapter 4. Stress and Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis Activity in Adolescence and Early AdulthoodEmma K. Adam, Sarah Collier Villaume, Sara Thomas, Leah D. Doane, and Kathryn Grant Part II. Cognition, Emotion, and Social Cognition Chapter 5. Cognition in Adolescence and the Transition to AdulthoodDaniel P. Keating, Michael I. Demidenko, and Dominic P. Kelly Chapter 6. Emotion Regulation Processes as Transdiagnostic in Adolescence and Early Adulthood: A Neurobioecological Systems FrameworkJeffrey Liew, Amanda Sheffield Morris, and Kara L. Kerr Chapter 7. Decision Making in Adolescence and Early Adulthood Sarah M. Edelson and Valerie F. Reyna Chapter 8. Moral Cognition in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood Daniel Lapsley, Emily LaPorte, Katheryn Kelley Chapter 9. Fifty Years of Longitudinal Research Into Identity Development in Adolescence and Early Adulthood: An Overview Wim Meeus Chapter 10. When Fairness and Group Loyalty Conflict: Social Exclusion, Prejudice, and Bias in Adolescence and Early AdulthoodKelly Lynn Mulvey, Aline Hitti, and Melanie Killen Part III. Social Contexts of Development Chapter 11. Studying Families as Systems in Adolescence and Early Adulthood Kimberly A. Updegraff and Norma J. Perez-Brena Chapter 12. The Parenting of Adolescents and Young Adults in the United StatesAndrea Hussong, Allegra Midgette, and W. Andrew Rothenberg Chapter 13. An International Perspective on Parenting and Family Influences on Adolescents and Young AdultsJennifer E. Lansford, Liane Peña Alampay, and Paul Oburu Chapter 14. The Prominence of Peer Interactions, Relationships, and Networks in Adolescence and Early AdulthoodRené Veenstra and Lydia Laninga-Wijnen Chapter 15. Romantic Relationships in Adolescence and Early Adulthood Jennifer Connolly, Shmuel Shulman, and Katherine Benvenuto Chapter 16. Patterns and Correlates of Sexual Well-Being in Adolescence and Early AdulthoodCarolyn T. Halpern Chapter 17. Schooling From Adolescence Through Early AdulthoodAprile D. Benner and Robert Crosnoe Chapter 18. Consequences of Adolescent Employment for Young Adult Development Jeremy Staff, Brittany N. Freelin, and Jeylan T. Mortimer Chapter 19. Socially Networked Lives: How Adolescents and Young Adults Engage With Social MediaMarion K. Underwood, Madeleine J. George, and Kaitlyn Burnell Part IV.Diversity in Adolescence and the Transition to Adulthood Chapter 20. Culturally and Contextually Informed Perspectives on Latinx Adolescent and Young Adult DevelopmentRebecca M. B. White, Rajni L. Nair, and Claudia A. Vega Chapter 21. African American and Black Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States: Development in Context Dawn P. Witherspoon, Wei Wei, Tiyobista Maereg, Daphney Chancy, and Saskia Boggs Chapter 22. Development Against the Backdrop of the Model Minority Myth: Strengths and Vulnerabilities Among Asian American Adolescents and Young Adults Tiffany Yip, Milou Haskin, Jillianne Fowle, Mingjun Xie, Yuen Mi Cheon, Pak See Ip, and Shubarna Akhter Chapter 23. Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Stephen T. Russell and Armin A. Dorri Chapter 24. The Promises and Challenges of Using an Intersectional Framework to Study Identity Development During Adolescence and Early AdulthoodMargarita Azmitia, Paulette D. Garcia Peraza, Virginia Thomas, Alex A. Ajayi, and Moin Syed Chapter 25. Immigrant Youth Resilience in the Context of Challenging Receiving SocietiesFrosso Motti-Stefanidi Chapter 26. Rural Youth Development: Theoretical Perspectives, Challenges, and Protective ProcessesShauna M. Cooper, Velma McBride Murry, Misha N. Inniss-Thompson, Marketa Burnett, Cecelia Valrie, Catherine M. Gonzalez, Janae Shaheed, Margarett McBride, and Kylie Garber Chapter 27. Challenges of Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood in Latin America Anderson Siqueira Pereira, Felipe Vilanova, Luciana Dutra-Thomé, and Silvia H. Koller Chapter 28. Youth With Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Transition to Adulthood Fred R. Volkmar and Calvin Solomon Chapter 29. The Impact of Protective Custody and Out-of-Home Care on the Health and Development of Adolescents and Young Adults Sarah J. Beal, Miguel Nuñez, and Mary V. Greiner Part V.Challenges to Healthy Development Chapter 30. A Multiple Levels of Analysis Developmental Psychopathology Perspective on Adolescence and Young Adulthood Dante Cicchetti Chapter 31. Internalizing in Adolescents and Young AdultsColleen S. Conley, Lori M. Hilt, and Carol Hundert Gonzales Chapter 32. The Development of Externalizing Across Adolescence and Early AdulthoodHailey L. Dotterer, Heidi B. Westerman, Emma L. Rodgers, and Luke W. Hyde Chapter 33. Substance Use Across Adolescence and Early Adulthood: Prevalence, Causes, Developmental Roots, and Consequences Jennifer L. Maggs, Brian H. Calhoun, and Hannah K. Allen Part VI.Positive Youth Development Chapter 34. Prosocial Behavior During Adolescence and the Transition to Adulthood Laura M. Padilla-Walker and Jolien Van der Graaff Chapter 35. Civic Engagement Across Adolescence and Early AdulthoodLaura Wray-Lake and Parissa J. Ballard Chapter 36. Religious Development Across Adolescence and Early AdulthoodSam A. Hardy and Jenae M. Nelson Chapter 37. Hindsight in the 2020s: Looking Back and Forward to Positive Youth Development and Thriving Pamela Ebstyne King and Susan Mangan Chapter 38. Neurobiological Development in Adolescence and Early Adulthood: Implications for Positive Youth Adjustment Eva H. Telzer, Seh-Joo Kwon, and Nathan A. Jorgensen Part VII.Intervention and Policy Chapter 39. The Promise and Challenges of Promotive and Preventive Interventions in AdolescenceJoanna J. Kim, Nancy A. Gonzales, Armando A. Pina, and Phillip W. Graham Chapter 40. Youth and the Justice SystemColleen Brown, Adam Fine, and Elizabeth Cauffman Chapter 41. Border and Asylum Immigration Policies and Adolescent Development in the United States Silvia Rodriguez Vega and Hirokazu Yoshikawa Chapter 42. Health Care Policy for Adolescents and Young Adults M. Jane Park, Claire D. Brindis, and Charles E. Irwin Jr. Chapter 43. Translating Developmental Science to Policy and Practice Rebekah Levine Coley and Naoka E. Carey Part VIII. Past and Future Science of Adolescence and Early Adulthood Chapter 44. The Development of the Developmental Science of Adolescence: Then, Now, Next—and NecessaryRichard M. Lerner, Jacqueline V. Lerner, and Mary H. Buckingham Index

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Book SynopsisContributes a deeper understanding of the changing nature of American labour.Trade Review"Besen-Cassino counters conventional wisdom that young people take undesirable service-sector jobs only because they need the money... The author also offers a critical look at how youth turn to the workplace to fill gaps left by their impersonal educational institutions and at how workforce disparities based on race, gender, and class have their roots in workers' early experiences... VERDICT [T]his engaging read will appeal to scholars of the sociology of work, as well as some high school and college students and their teachers, mentors, and parents. It could also be of great use to those who hire millennials or who work to help economically disadvantaged young people." - Library Journal "Topics include motivations for part-time work among otherwise affluent youth" - Chronicle of Higher EducationTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Consuming Work: Introduction to Youth Work in America 2 “Would You Like an Application with Your Coffee?” 3 Fun or Exploitation? The Lived Experience of Suburban Youth Work 4 Pay or Play? The Youth Labor Force in the United States and Other Industrialized Countries 5 “They Need Me Here”: Work as a Perceived Alternative to School 6 “White, Young, Middle Class”: Aesthetic Labor, Race, and Class in the Youth Labor Force 7 Origins of the Gender Wage Gap: Gender Inequality in the Youth Labor Force 8 Conclusion: The Economic Recession and the Future of Youth Labor Appendix: Notes on Methodology References Index

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Book SynopsisContributes a deeper understanding of the changing nature of American labour.Trade Review"Besen-Cassino counters conventional wisdom that young people take undesirable service-sector jobs only because they need the money... The author also offers a critical look at how youth turn to the workplace to fill gaps left by their impersonal educational institutions and at how workforce disparities based on race, gender, and class have their roots in workers' early experiences... VERDICT [T]his engaging read will appeal to scholars of the sociology of work, as well as some high school and college students and their teachers, mentors, and parents. It could also be of great use to those who hire millennials or who work to help economically disadvantaged young people." - Library Journal "Topics include motivations for part-time work among otherwise affluent youth." - Chronicle of Higher EducationTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Consuming Work: Introduction to Youth Work in America 2 “Would You Like an Application with Your Coffee?” 3 Fun or Exploitation? The Lived Experience of Suburban Youth Work 4 Pay or Play? The Youth Labor Force in the United States and Other Industrialized Countries 5 “They Need Me Here”: Work as a Perceived Alternative to School 6 “White, Young, Middle Class”: Aesthetic Labor, Race, and Class in the Youth Labor Force 7 Origins of the Gender Wage Gap: Gender Inequality in the Youth Labor Force 8 Conclusion: The Economic Recession and the Future of Youth Labor Appendix: Notes on Methodology References Index

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Book SynopsisEthnographies of Youth and Temporality use youth as a prism to understand time and its subjective experience.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Time Objectified • Martin Demant Frederiksen and Anne Line Dalsgård 1. Waiting for the start: Flexibility and the Question of Convergence • Jennifer Johnson-Hanks 2. Stunted Future: Buryong among Young Men in Manila • Steffen Jensen 3. Aske’s Dead Time: An Exploration of the Qualities of Time among Left-Radical Activists in Denmark • Stine Krøijer 4. Heterochronic Atmospheres: Affect, Materiality, and Youth in Depression • Martin Demant Frederiksen 5. Standing Apart: On Time, Affect, and Discernment in Nordeste, Brazil • Anne Line Dalsgård 6. Certificates for the Future: Geographical Mobility and Educational Trajectories among Nepalese Youth • Karen Valentin 7. The normativity of Boredom: Communication Media Use among Romanian Teenagers • Razvan Nicolescu 8. Making a Name: Young Musicians in Uganda Working on the Future • Lotte Meinert and Nanna Schneidermann Afterword • Michael G. Flaherty Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisBoth a resource for those professionally engaged in work with sexual and gender minorities and a comprehensive text for use in courses on working with vulnerable youth populations, Growing into Resilience is a timely and transdisciplinary book.Table of ContentsPreface: Remembering the Vriend Decision Part I: Steeling Life in the Face of Adversity InterText I - Mara: Learning to Own Gay InterText II - Vincent: I'm Passing 1. Making It Better NOW for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth InterText III - Sean: I'm a Man, Yes I Am 2. Gender Beautiful: Living in the Fullness of One's Affirmed Gender Identity and True Gender Self InterText IV - Larissa: My Heritage is a Big Thing 3. Camp fYrefly: fostering, Youth, resilience, energy, fun, leadership, yeah! InterText V - Mark: Being the Boy I Am InterText VI - Paul: Bringing People Out of Silence 4. Making and Implementing Policies to Protect Sexual and Gender Minority Youth in Schooling and Healthcare Part II: From At Risk to At Promise (Chapters with Kristopher Wells) InterText VII - John: Learning to Own Gay 5. The Marc Hall Prom Predicament: Queer Individual Rights v. Institutional Church Rights in Canadian Public Education InterText VIII - Sam: It's Like Piranhas, Man 6. Gay and Bisexual Male Youth as Educator Activists and Cultural Workers: The Queer Critical Praxis of Three Canadian High-School Students InterText IX - Jon: Born to Be, Deserving to be Happy in My Own Skin 7. The Mental and Sexual Health Nexus in the Comprehensive Health of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth InterText X - David: Stealth, But Living Trans Fulltime 8. Gay-Straight Alliances and the Quest for Recognition and Accommodation of Sexual and Gender Minority Students in Canadian Schools Appendix: Growing into Resilience: An Emergent Research Typology of a Dynamic Process from the 1980s into the Present Moment

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an in-depth examination of adolescents' social development in the context of the family. Grounded in social domain theory, the book draws on the author's research over the past 25 years Draws from the results of in-depth interviews with more than 700 families Explores adolescent-parent relationships among ethnic majority and minority youth in the United States, as well as research with adolescents in Hong Kong and China Discusses extensive research on disclosure and secrecy during adolescence, parenting, autonomy, and moral development Considers both popular sources such as movies and public surveys, as well as scholarly sources drawn from anthropology, history, sociology, social psychology, and developmental psychology Explores how different strands of development, including autonomy, rights and justice, and society and social convention, become integrated and coordinated in adolescence Trade Review“Overall, this book gives great detail on adolescent parent relationships and how they effect the development of children . . . This is a comforting message, one very different from popular accounts, and one that parents and adolescents would benefit from appreciating” (Journal of Youth & Adolescence, 5 December 2012) “Few scholars have influenced the contemporary study of adolescent–parent relationships as much as Judith Smetana. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the ways in which family relationships are transformed during this stage of life.” —Laurence Steinberg, Temple University “In this very thoughtful book Judith Smetana provides deep and insightful understandings of adolescence. Smetana masterfully positions adolescence in explanations of difficulties and developmental progress during these years. This splendid book is indispensable for anyone interested in adolescence, social and family relationships, moral theory, culture, and development.” —Elliot Turiel, University of California BerkeleyTable of ContentsPreface vi 1 Introduction: Perspectives on Adolescents and Their Families 1 2 Studying Adolescent–Parent Relationships from the Lens of Developmental Psychology 13 3 Conflicts and Their Vicissitudes 31 4 Parents’ Voices: Conflicts and Social Conventions 43 5 Adolescents’ Voices: Autonomy and the Personal Domain 66 6 Autonomy, Conflict, Connectedness, and Culture 96 7 Adolescent Relationships and Development within and between Cultures 120 8 Adolescent–Parent Relationships in African American Families 139 9 Beliefs about Parental Authority 172 10 Parenting Styles and Practices 193 11 Disclosure and Secrecy in Adolescent–Parent Relationships 216 12 Coordinations and Change in Social Development 249 13 Life beyond Adolescence: Transitions to Adulthood 271 References 279 Author Index 306 Subject Index 313

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an in-depth examination of adolescents' social development in the context of the family. Grounded in social domain theory, the book draws on the author's research over the past 25 years Draws from the results of in-depth interviews with more than 700 families Explores adolescent-parent relationships among ethnic majority and minority youth in the United States, as well as research with adolescents in Hong Kong and China Discusses extensive research on disclosure and secrecy during adolescence, parenting, autonomy, and moral development Considers both popular sources such as movies and public surveys, as well as scholarly sources drawn from anthropology, history, sociology, social psychology, and developmental psychology Explores how different strands of development, including autonomy, rights and justice, and society and social convention, become integrated and coordinated in adolescence Trade Review“Overall, this book gives great detail on adolescent parent relationships and how they effect the development of children . . . This is a comforting message, one very different from popular accounts, and one that parents and adolescents would benefit from appreciating” (Journal of Youth & Adolescence, 5 December 2012) “Few scholars have influenced the contemporary study of adolescent–parent relationships as much as Judith Smetana. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the ways in which family relationships are transformed during this stage of life.” —Laurence Steinberg, Temple University “In this very thoughtful book Judith Smetana provides deep and insightful understandings of adolescence. Smetana masterfully positions adolescence in explanations of difficulties and developmental progress during these years. This splendid book is indispensable for anyone interested in adolescence, social and family relationships, moral theory, culture, and development.” —Elliot Turiel, University of California BerkeleyTable of ContentsPreface vi 1 Introduction: Perspectives on Adolescents and Their Families 1 2 Studying Adolescent–Parent Relationships from the Lens of Developmental Psychology 13 3 Conflicts and Their Vicissitudes 31 4 Parents’ Voices: Conflicts and Social Conventions 43 5 Adolescents’ Voices: Autonomy and the Personal Domain 66 6 Autonomy, Conflict, Connectedness, and Culture 96 7 Adolescent Relationships and Development within and between Cultures 120 8 Adolescent–Parent Relationships in African American Families 139 9 Beliefs about Parental Authority 172 10 Parenting Styles and Practices 193 11 Disclosure and Secrecy in Adolescent–Parent Relationships 216 12 Coordinations and Change in Social Development 249 13 Life beyond Adolescence: Transitions to Adulthood 271 References 279 Author Index 306 Subject Index 313

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Book SynopsisOffers a challenging interpretation of the ways in which young people's non-participation is becoming marginalised and criminalised. It re-examines the causes and consequences of youth unemployment in and beyond the UK from an unusually wide range of social science disciplines and perspectives.Trade ReviewA wide-ranging, knowledgeable and sophisticated attempt to offer fresh insights and a strong challenge to the ways in which the young are marginalised and manipulated by dominant social forces." Professor Roger Smith, Critical Social Policy"Young People, Welfare and Crime is scholarly. It is readable. It provides an original analysis. This book excels on all levels …It offers a stunningly clear theoretical framework… Its interdisciplinary analysis is utterly compelling and masterful. The implications are profoundly unsettling…" Professor Jo Phoenix, British Journal of Criminology“Ross Fergusson shows that there is not just an economic and social crisis that affects the young in rich-world countries but also a crisis in our understanding of how and why it has come about. His book is a major new critique of several theories. It suggests what can be salvaged from current academic misunderstandings, and how academics can better work with others to begin to turn the tide for young adults who are treated as if they are no longer needed, or are useful only for menial work of little real value.” Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford“Educational under-achievement and exclusion, diminishing labour-market opportunities and wholesale criminalisation comprise the adverse conditions within which complex youth-adult transitions are increasingly defined and disfigured internationally. Fergusson’s timely publication engages with these conditions empirically and theoretically with a level of analytical precision and authority that will make it an indispensable source for sociologists, social policy analysts and criminologists.” Barry Goldson, Charles Booth Chair of Social Science, University of Liverpool“Young people invariably bear the brunt of social and economic change – especially recessions, and the neo-liberal austerities and criminalising and neglectful injustices that follow them. Fergusson's original interdisciplinary analysis sets a convincing late modern context for grasping the depths of our crisis of youth as it explains why, how and upon whom the burdens of social exclusion fall the hardest.” Peter Squires, Professor of Criminology and Public Policy, University of Brighton"An extensive and detailed analysis ... [which] introduces us to new ways of conceptualising, theorising and analysing, within the social sciences, the criminalisation and marginalisation of youth." - Cambridge Core Journal of Social Policy"This is an important book. It challenges established approaches to understanding the lives of young people; works across disciplines; … and locates debates about participation, welfare and crime in a critical constellation of perspectives… The implications … are serious - not only for those young people who continue to defy the strictures of the state, but also for the principles of social justice and democracy... " Professor Robin Simmons, Young“This is an exciting book. Too often scholarly debates and policy thinking about young people take place in separate disciplinary fields, limiting the theoretical potential for understanding. Here Ross Fergusson has produced an important and novel contribution to the way that we should think about the exclusion of young people. The book is to be commended for its ambition in bringing together theory and research from youth studies, criminology, sociology and social policy, better to understand work, welfare and crime.” Rob MacDonald, Professor of Sociology, Teesside University“Ross Fergusson has important things to say. His book cuts through much muddled thinking about young people’s non-participation. It challenges dominant policy discourses about contemporary youth and much academic thinking, and offers an original and critically-informed analysis which disrupts the traditional disciplinary restrictions which limit our understanding of the lives of young people on the margins of education and work.” Robin Simmons, Professor of Education, University of Huddersfield“Working in sophisticated fashion across disciplines and theoretical approaches, this unique – and very welcome – book provides much-needed contemporary insights into the complex relationships among youth unemployment, welfare and crime.” Nick Ellison, Professor of Social Policy, University of YorkTable of ContentsPart One: The crisis of non-participation; Crises of non-participation; Part Two: Work, welfare and crime: research and policy; Young people and non-participation: discourses, histories, literatures; Non-participation, wages and welfare; Non-participation and crime: constructing connections; Unemployment, crime and recession; Interlude: Interpretive review; Part Three Theorising non-participation; Lines of division, points of entry: two theories; Theorising the non-participation-crime relationship; Part Four: Criminalising non-participation; The advance of criminalisation; Review and concluding comments.

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Book SynopsisOffers a challenging interpretation of the ways in which young people's non-participation is becoming marginalised and criminalised. It re-examines the causes and consequences of youth unemployment in and beyond the UK from an unusually wide range of social science disciplines and perspectives.Trade ReviewA wide-ranging, knowledgeable and sophisticated attempt to offer fresh insights and a strong challenge to the ways in which the young are marginalised and manipulated by dominant social forces." Professor Roger Smith, Critical Social Policy"Young People, Welfare and Crime is scholarly. It is readable. It provides an original analysis. This book excels on all levels …It offers a stunningly clear theoretical framework… Its interdisciplinary analysis is utterly compelling and masterful. The implications are profoundly unsettling…" Professor Jo Phoenix, British Journal of Criminology“Ross Fergusson shows that there is not just an economic and social crisis that affects the young in rich-world countries but also a crisis in our understanding of how and why it has come about. His book is a major new critique of several theories. It suggests what can be salvaged from current academic misunderstandings, and how academics can better work with others to begin to turn the tide for young adults who are treated as if they are no longer needed, or are useful only for menial work of little real value.” Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford“Educational under-achievement and exclusion, diminishing labour-market opportunities and wholesale criminalisation comprise the adverse conditions within which complex youth-adult transitions are increasingly defined and disfigured internationally. Fergusson’s timely publication engages with these conditions empirically and theoretically with a level of analytical precision and authority that will make it an indispensable source for sociologists, social policy analysts and criminologists.” Barry Goldson, Charles Booth Chair of Social Science, University of Liverpool“Young people invariably bear the brunt of social and economic change – especially recessions, and the neo-liberal austerities and criminalising and neglectful injustices that follow them. Fergusson's original interdisciplinary analysis sets a convincing late modern context for grasping the depths of our crisis of youth as it explains why, how and upon whom the burdens of social exclusion fall the hardest.” Peter Squires, Professor of Criminology and Public Policy, University of Brighton"This is an important book. It challenges established approaches to understanding the lives of young people; works across disciplines; … and locates debates about participation, welfare and crime in a critical constellation of perspectives… The implications … are serious - not only for those young people who continue to defy the strictures of the state, but also for the principles of social justice and democracy... " Professor Robin Simmons, Young“This is an exciting book. Too often scholarly debates and policy thinking about young people take place in separate disciplinary fields, limiting the theoretical potential for understanding. Here Ross Fergusson has produced an important and novel contribution to the way that we should think about the exclusion of young people. The book is to be commended for its ambition in bringing together theory and research from youth studies, criminology, sociology and social policy, better to understand work, welfare and crime.” Rob MacDonald, Professor of Sociology, Teesside University"An extensive and detailed analysis ... [which] introduces us to new ways of conceptualising, theorising and analysing, within the social sciences, the criminalisation and marginalisation of youth." - Cambridge Core Journal of Social Policy“Ross Fergusson has important things to say. His book cuts through much muddled thinking about young people’s non-participation. It challenges dominant policy discourses about contemporary youth and much academic thinking, and offers an original and critically-informed analysis which disrupts the traditional disciplinary restrictions which limit our understanding of the lives of young people on the margins of education and work.” Robin Simmons, Professor of Education, University of Huddersfield“Working in sophisticated fashion across disciplines and theoretical approaches, this unique – and very welcome – book provides much-needed contemporary insights into the complex relationships among youth unemployment, welfare and crime.” Nick Ellison, Professor of Social Policy, University of YorkTable of ContentsPart One: The crisis of non-participation; Crises of non-participation; Part Two: Work, welfare and crime: research and policy; Young people and non-participation: discourses, histories, literatures; Non-participation, wages and welfare; Non-participation and crime: constructing connections; Unemployment, crime and recession; Interlude: Interpretive review; Part Three Theorising non-participation; Lines of division, points of entry: two theories; Theorising the non-participation-crime relationship; Part Four: Criminalising non-participation; The advance of criminalisation; Review and concluding comments.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on eight countries as case studies Professor Alan France tells the story of what impact the 2007 global crisis and the great recession that followed has had on our understandings of youth.Trade Review"I would highly recommend this book to scholars and students of political economy, the life course, and youth studies and the transition to adulthood. The substantive arguments are engaging, and the mode of analysis...will, I hope, influence future research in these fields." American Journal of Sociology"This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand that the global financial crisis means for young people – it has astounding depth and breadth and sets new agendas in the field of youth studies." Johanna Wyn, Director, Youth Research Centre, The University of Melbourne"One of the strengths of the book - and the key to its undoubted value to non-academic readers - is France's mastery of both the detail of social policy, and how policy interacts with lives actually lived by today's young people." SPERI Blog"With a rare, global perspective, this is a timely, valuable and important book that maps the social and economic fortunes and likely futures of young people after `the Great Recession’." Rob MacDonald, Teeside University"An extremely timely analysis of the conditions faced by young people in period following the Great Recession. With a strong theoretical foundation and an excellent empirical coverage of eight countries within the Global North, France explores the everyday worlds inhabited by young people, at the same time reminding us of the persistence of old inequalities and of the ineffectiveness of core policies." Andy Furlong, University of GlasgowTable of ContentsUnderstanding Youth in Contemporary Times; Theorising Youth; The Global Crisis and the ‘Age of Austerity’; Education and Training; The broken promise; Education and Training; From public benefit to private responsibility; Unemployment and Work; Precarious futures; NEETs and the Disengaged; The ‘new’ youth problem; Divergence and Difference: Contrasting cross-national experiences of being young; Education, Work and Welfare in Diverse Settings; Youth and Mobility; Inequality, leaving home and the question of youth migration; After the Crisis; Social change and what it means to be young.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on eight countries as case studies Professor Alan France tells the story of what impact the 2007 global crisis and the great recession that followed has had on our understandings of youth.Trade Review"I would highly recommend this book to scholars and students of political economy, the life course, and youth studies and the transition to adulthood. The substantive arguments are engaging, and the mode of analysis...will, I hope, influence future research in these fields." American Journal of Sociology"This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand that the global financial crisis means for young people – it has astounding depth and breadth and sets new agendas in the field of youth studies." Johanna Wyn, Director, Youth Research Centre, The University of Melbourne"One of the strengths of the book - and the key to its undoubted value to non-academic readers - is France's mastery of both the detail of social policy, and how policy interacts with lives actually lived by today's young people." SPERI Blog"With a rare, global perspective, this is a timely, valuable and important book that maps the social and economic fortunes and likely futures of young people after `the Great Recession’." Rob MacDonald, Teeside University"An extremely timely analysis of the conditions faced by young people in period following the Great Recession. With a strong theoretical foundation and an excellent empirical coverage of eight countries within the Global North, France explores the everyday worlds inhabited by young people, at the same time reminding us of the persistence of old inequalities and of the ineffectiveness of core policies." Andy Furlong, University of GlasgowTable of ContentsUnderstanding Youth in Contemporary Times; Theorising Youth; The Global Crisis and the ‘Age of Austerity’; Education and Training; The broken promise; Education and Training; From public benefit to private responsibility; Unemployment and Work; Precarious futures; NEETs and the Disengaged; The ‘new’ youth problem; Divergence and Difference: Contrasting cross-national experiences of being young; Education, Work and Welfare in Diverse Settings; Youth and Mobility; Inequality, leaving home and the question of youth migration; After the Crisis; Social change and what it means to be young.

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Book SynopsisDraws on in-depth research with marginalised young people and the professionals who support them to explore the implications of a `vulnerability zeitgeist', asking how far the rise of vulnerability in welfare and criminal justice processes serves the interests of those who are most disadvantaged.Trade Review"A really illuminating book on the contentious notion of vulnerability, and it should be read, debated and brought to bear on service design and development." Research, Policy and Planning"This insightful and timely book by Kate Brown is an excellent addition to new, critical, qualitative research that explores and questions key issues in social policy." Rob MacDonald, Teesside University“Innovative, beautifully written, well researched and eloquently argued. Finally a book that subjects the concept of `vulnerability’ to robust academic scrutiny, particularly in terms of the rise of its use to justify almost any type of intervention with children and young people. A must read for anyone interested in young people and social policy.” Jo Phoenix, Leicester University"Through a careful, theoretically rigorous analysis, Brown interrogates policy directives and practices that have seemingly championed the rights and needs of vulnerable citizens." Journal of Children and Poverty"Brown's central focus is an analysis of the life stories of vulnerable young people...what the book does brilliantly is to give them a voice." Times Higher Education"This essential book offers a groundbreaking study of the lived experience of vulnerability and its increasing importance to welfare and criminal justice systems, exploring fundamental questions of deservingness, human agency, care, governance and social control." John Flint, University of Sheffield"A unique and compelling account of the implications of a `vulnerability zeitgeist’ and an important contribution to an area of public policy that is not as benign as it can appear." Kenneth McLaughlin, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityTable of ContentsThe Vulnerability Zeitgeist; Making Sense of Vulnerability; The Rise of Vulnerability in Social Policy; Vulnerability Management; Vulnerable Young People’s Life Stories; Vulnerable Identities?; The Social Mediation of Vulnerability; Vulnerability, Care and Social Control.

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Book SynopsisDraws on in-depth research with marginalised young people and the professionals who support them to explore the implications of a `vulnerability zeitgeist', asking how far the rise of vulnerability in welfare and criminal justice processes serves the interests of those who are most disadvantaged.Trade Review"A really illuminating book on the contentious notion of vulnerability, and it should be read, debated and brought to bear on service design and development." Research, Policy and Planning"This insightful and timely book by Kate Brown is an excellent addition to new, critical, qualitative research that explores and questions key issues in social policy." Rob MacDonald, Teesside University“Innovative, beautifully written, well researched and eloquently argued. Finally a book that subjects the concept of `vulnerability’ to robust academic scrutiny, particularly in terms of the rise of its use to justify almost any type of intervention with children and young people. A must read for anyone interested in young people and social policy.” Jo Phoenix, Leicester University"Through a careful, theoretically rigorous analysis, Brown interrogates policy directives and practices that have seemingly championed the rights and needs of vulnerable citizens." Journal of Children and Poverty"Brown's central focus is an analysis of the life stories of vulnerable young people...what the book does brilliantly is to give them a voice." Times Higher Education"This essential book offers a groundbreaking study of the lived experience of vulnerability and its increasing importance to welfare and criminal justice systems, exploring fundamental questions of deservingness, human agency, care, governance and social control." John Flint, University of Sheffield"A unique and compelling account of the implications of a `vulnerability zeitgeist’ and an important contribution to an area of public policy that is not as benign as it can appear." Kenneth McLaughlin, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityTable of ContentsThe Vulnerability Zeitgeist; Making Sense of Vulnerability; The Rise of Vulnerability in Social Policy; Vulnerability Management; Vulnerable Young People’s Life Stories; Vulnerable Identities?; The Social Mediation of Vulnerability; Vulnerability, Care and Social Control.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the findings of a two-year European research project, this book presents a new model for responding meaningfully and effectively the 'problem' of how to respond to violence involving young people that continues to challenge youth workers and policy makers.Trade Review"Impressively steps outside of the norms associated with existing youth work scholarship making an important, wide-ranging contribution to our knowledge of youth work’s role in responding to youth violence.” Ross Deuchar, University of the West of ScotlandTable of ContentsPreface ~ John Pitts; Part 1: Literature review, theoretical frame and researching youth violence; Youth work and youth violence in a European context; Our theoretical frame; Using participatory research methods to study youth violence; Part 2: Responding meaningfully to youth violence; Working at the personal (P) level; Working at the community(C) level; Working at the structural (S) level; Working at the existential (E) level; Part 3: Rethinking youth work practice and policy; Rethinking some youth worker tales; Working with intersectional identities; Creating policy for good practice; Part 4: Youth work responses in action - case studies of praxis; Responding to structural and symbolic violence: A comparative case study; A sports based response to youth violence; Exploring “Confrontational Pedagogy”; Embedding Community Work; Ethnopraxis in action; Imagining realistic alternatives.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the findings of a two-year European research project, this book presents a new model for responding meaningfully and effectively the 'problem' of how to respond to violence involving young people that continues to challenge youth workers and policy makers.Trade Review"Impressively steps outside of the norms associated with existing youth work scholarship making an important, wide-ranging contribution to our knowledge of youth work’s role in responding to youth violence.” Ross Deuchar, University of the West of ScotlandTable of ContentsPreface ~ John Pitts; Part 1: Literature review, theoretical frame and researching youth violence; Youth work and youth violence in a European context; Our theoretical frame; Using participatory research methods to study youth violence; Part 2: Responding meaningfully to youth violence; Working at the personal (P) level; Working at the community(C) level; Working at the structural (S) level; Working at the existential (E) level; Part 3: Rethinking youth work practice and policy; Rethinking some youth worker tales; Working with intersectional identities; Creating policy for good practice; Part 4: Youth work responses in action - case studies of praxis; Responding to structural and symbolic violence: A comparative case study; A sports based response to youth violence; Exploring “Confrontational Pedagogy”; Embedding Community Work; Ethnopraxis in action; Imagining realistic alternatives.

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Book SynopsisThis engaging book paints a picture of passionate grassroots youth workers, at a time when their practice is threatened by spending cuts, target cultures and market imperatives. Using interviews, dialogue and research diary excerpts the author brings youth work practice and theory to life.Trade Review"Essential reading for youth workers and other creative and critical thinkers who are looking for the cracks where life can still break up and break through the grids of control." Janet Batsleer, Manchester Metropolitan University"written with an engaging freshness, honesty and vigour...Tania de St Croix has written the best book on youth work since Mark K. Smith’s seminal Creators not Consumers, published in 1980." Youth & Policy"An excellent resource for youthwork practitioners, capturing the difficult climate for youth work." Jess Bishop, Coventry University“An in-depth look at the devastating impacts of neoliberal reform policies on youth services and youth work that illuminates the dedication and passion of youth workers against the backdrop of a dehumanizing work environment.” Dana Fusco, York College USA "The book is essential reading for anyone in the youth work sector in England, and recommendations are included which appear most useful to organisations delivering youth work. The passion of the youth workers involved is inspiring while the situation in which many find themselves should act as a warning to international readers." Chris Martin, University of Leicester"A motivational and inspiring insight into the experiences of part-time and volunteer youth workers, providing an opportunity to hear their voices within policy and practice" Emma Chivers, University of South WalesTable of ContentsIntroduction; The marketisation of youth work; Passionate practice; Target cultures and performativity; Surveillance on the street; Practising differently; Reclaiming and reimagining youth work; Afterword: Research methodology Appendix: Research participants.

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Book SynopsisThis engaging book paints a picture of passionate grassroots youth workers, at a time when their practice is threatened by spending cuts, target cultures and market imperatives. Using interviews, dialogue and research diary excerpts the author brings youth work practice and theory to life.Trade Review"Essential reading for youth workers and other creative and critical thinkers who are looking for the cracks where life can still break up and break through the grids of control." Janet Batsleer, Manchester Metropolitan University"written with an engaging freshness, honesty and vigour...Tania de St Croix has written the best book on youth work since Mark K. Smith’s seminal Creators not Consumers, published in 1980." Youth & Policy“An in-depth look at the devastating impacts of neoliberal reform policies on youth services and youth work that illuminates the dedication and passion of youth workers against the backdrop of a dehumanizing work environment.” Dana Fusco, York College USA "The book is essential reading for anyone in the youth work sector in England, and recommendations are included which appear most useful to organisations delivering youth work. The passion of the youth workers involved is inspiring while the situation in which many find themselves should act as a warning to international readers." Chris Martin, University of Leicester"An excellent resource for youthwork practitioners, capturing the difficult climate for youth work." Jess Bishop, Coventry University"A motivational and inspiring insight into the experiences of part-time and volunteer youth workers, providing an opportunity to hear their voices within policy and practice" Emma Chivers, University of South WalesTable of ContentsIntroduction; The marketisation of youth work; Passionate practice; Target cultures and performativity; Surveillance on the street; Practising differently; Reclaiming and reimagining youth work; Afterword: Research methodology Appendix: Research participants.

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Book SynopsisThrough the perspectives of young people themselves, this book reviews changes in policy and practices that affected the generation of young people who grew up in state care in China during the last 20 years.Trade Review"This book provides us with intriguing stories of Chinese orphans in their adulthood. It also offers a telling argument for changing practices to ensure a better future for children in state care." Kinglun Ngok, Centre for Public Administration Research, Sun Yat-Sen UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction to leaving state care in China Children in alternative care Alternative care practices in child welfare institutions Leaving care policies Social inclusion impact of a childhood in state care Self-identity of young people leaving state care Economic security of young people leaving care Social networks and employment of young people leaving care Housing pathways of young people leaving care State support for children in informal care Growing up in institutional family group care Policy implications for young people leaving care in China

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Book SynopsisYouth migration is a global phenomenon, and it is gendered. This collection presents original studies on gender and youth migration from the 19th century onwards, from international and interdisciplinary perspectives.Trade Review"A fascinating collection of research on gendered experiences and processes of migration in diverse international contexts." John Horton, University of NorthamptonTable of ContentsIntroduction: Gender and Youth Migration ~ Glenda Tibe Bonifacio; Part 1 Imperial Histories; Childhood and Imperial Training, 1875-1914 ~ Rebecca J. Bates; Waifs, Strays, and Foundlings: Illegitimacy, Gender, and Youth Migration from Britain, 1870-1930 ~ Ginger Frost; "Child Rescue at Home, Overseas Migration within the Empire": Child Emigration Society during Interwar Period (1918-1939) ~ Mairena Hirschberg; Part II Negotiating Identities; Senegalese Young Women in Paris and New York: Empowerment and Shifting Identities through Migration ~ Medina Ina Niang; Homophobia, Transphobia and the Homonationalist Gaze: Challenges of Young Bangladeshi Homosexuals and Transgenders in Migration ~ Raihan M. Sharif; From ‘Coming Out’ to ‘Undocuqueer’: Intersections between Illegality and Queerness within the U.S. Undocumented Youth Movement ~ Ina Batzke; Syrian Youth in Turkey: Gender and Problems Outside the Refugee Camps ~ Elif Gökçearslan Çifci and Dilek Kurnaz; Part III Education; Filipino Youth Professionals in Alberta, Canada: Shaping Gender and Education Landscapes? ~ Maria Veronica G. Caparas; Life in Cold Lake: Childhood, Mobility and Social Structures ~ Gabriel Asselin; Gender Gap among Second-generation Students in Higher Education: The Italian Case ~ Alessandro Bozzetti; Balancing Family, Aspirations, and Higher Education: The Gendered Experiences of Second Generation Arab American College Women ~ Pamela Aronson and Ivy Forsthe-Brown; Young, Educated, and Female: Narratives of Post-1991 Internal Albanian Migration ~ Ermira Danaj; Part IV Work; Characteristics and Gender Differences of Young Hungarian’s Attitudes and Intentions on Emigration ~ Ibolya Czibere and Andrea Rácz; Youth Perspectives: Migration, Poverty and the Future of Farming in Rural Ethiopia ~ Logan Cochrane and Siera Vercillo; Intersectional Experiences of Young Migrant Women in Istanbul ~ Bayram Ünal; Conclusion ~ Glenda Tibe Bonifacio.

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Book SynopsisThis book assesses the challenges young people face in the contemporary labour markets of England and Germany in the context of mass migration, rising nationalism and accelerating technological change, and considers the resources and skills young people in Europe will need in the future.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Pathways to adulthood Social structure and inequality Identity and social media Youth and Europe Navigating the transition to adulthood Education, capability and skills Smart families and community Political participation, mobilisation and the internet Impact of COVID-19 on youth Conclusions: Youth policy challenges

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Book SynopsisAddressing previously neglected groups of care leavers such as unaccompanied migrants, street youth, young parents and those with a disability, this book considers the precarity often experienced by many care leavers. It makes research relevant to practitioners and policy-makers aiming to enable, rather than label, vulnerable groups.Trade Review"The profound insights of ‘Living on the Edge’ shed light on a path towards a more empathetic and informed understanding of care-leaving journeys. This gem of a book is a must-read for anyone dedicated to the wellbeing of our youth, offering essential guidance on how to effectively engage with them and ethically co-create knowledge." Rawan W. Ibrahim, PhD, INTRACTable of ContentsIntroduction: Moving Towards the Edge – Samuel Keller, Inger Oterholm, Veronika Paulsen and Adrian D. van Breda Part 1: Groups of Care Leavers Living on the Edge 1. Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Leaving Care in Spain: How Their Journeys Differ from Those of Other Care Leavers – Laura García Alba, Federica Gullo 2. ‘The Question Is: Will the Street Leave Us?’ Care-Leavers with a Street-Connected Past – Marcela Losantos Velasco 3. Care-Leavers’ Reflections on Resilience Processes Acquired While Living on the Street Prior to Coming Into Residential Care in South Africa - Malose Samuel Mokgopha, Adrian D. Van Breda and Sue Bond 4. LGBTQIA+ Foster Care Leavers: Creating Equitable and Affirming Systems of Care – June Paul Part 2: Methods of Care Leaving Research 5. Institutional Ethnography: Linking the Individual and the Institutional in Care Leaving Research – Ingri-Hanne Braenne Bennwik and Inger Oterholm 6. Methodological Issues When Interviewing Disabled Care Leavers: Lessons Learned from South Africa, Norway and Northern Ireland – Wendy Mupaku, Ingri-Hanne Braenne Bennwik and Berni Kelly 7. Trauma-Informed Research with Young People Transitioning From Care: Balancing Methodological Rigour With Participatory and Empowering Practice – Jade Purtell 8. Care Foundations: Making Care Central in Research with Care-Experienced People – Róisín Farragher, Petra Göbbels-Koch, John Paul Horn, and Annie Smith Part 3: Theory and Conceptualisation of Leaving Care 9. Stability in Residential Out of Home Care in Australia: How Can We Understand it? – Jenna Bollinger 10. Living an Unstable Life: Exploring Facets of Instability in the Lives of Care Leavers in Denmark – Anne-Kirstine Mølholt 11. Understanding the Risk of Suicide Among Care Leavers: The Potential Contribution of Theories – Petra Göbbels-Koch 12. Getting By and Getting Ahead in Australia: A Conceptual Approach to Examining the Individual Impact of Informal Social Capital on Care Leaver Transitions – Jacinta Waugh, Philip Mendes and Catherine Flynn Conclusion: Going Over the Edge – Adrian D. van Breda, Veronika Paulsen, Inger Oterholm and Samuel Keller

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Book SynopsisThis book shares stories from child sexual exploitation, child criminal exploitation and peer violence about what has been learnt from the Contextual Safeguarding approach to understanding harm that happens to young people in their communities and what is required to respond.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Contextual Safeguarding but not as you know it - Carlene Firmin and Jenny Lloyd Part 1. Domain 1: The target of the system 2. From peers and parks to patriarchy and poverty: inequalities in young people’s experiences of extra-familial harm and the child protection system - Lauren Wroe, Jenny Lloyd and Molly Manister 3. Identifying and responding to structural and system drivers of extra-familial harm using a Contextual Safeguarding approach - Molly Manister, Lauren Wroe and Carly Adams Elias 4. Value-informed approaches to peer mapping and assessment: learning from test sites - Carly Adams Elias, Lisa Marie Thornhill and Hannah Millar Part 2. Domain 2: The legislative basis of the system 5. Reimagining Community Safety as community safeguarding in response to extra-familial harm - Joanne Walker and Carlene Firmin 6. Contextual Safeguarding beyond the UK - Delphine Peace 7. Decolonising practice: ‘doing’ Contextual Safeguarding with an ethics of care - Vanessa Bradbury-Leather and Sue Rayment-McHugh Part 3. Domain 3: The partnerships that characterise the system 8. “If you want to help us, you need to hear us” - Hannah Millar, Joanne Walker and Elsie Whittington 9. Parents as partners: destigmatising the role of parents of children affected by extra familial harm - Lisa Marie Thornhill 10. What can we learn from multi-agency meetings to address extra-familial harm to young people? - Lisa Bostock Part 4. Domain 4: The outcomes the system produces and measures 11. Developing outcomes measurements in Contextual Safeguarding: explorations of theory and practice - Jenny Lloyd and Rachael Owens 12. Counting children and chip shops: dilemmas and challenges in evaluating the impact of Contextual Safeguarding - Michelle Lefevre, Paula Skidmore and Carlene Firmin 13. Gather round: stories that expand the possibilities of Contextual Safeguarding practice - Rachael Owens 14. Conclusion: Creating societies where children can know love - Jenny Lloyd and Carlene Firmin

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Book SynopsisThe participatory politics and civic engagement of youth in the digital ageThere is a widespread perception that the foundations of American democracy are dysfunctional, public trust in core institutions is eroding, and little is likely to emerge from traditional politics that will shift those conditions. Youth are often seen as emblematic of this crisisfrequently represented as uninterested in political life, ill-informed about current-affairs, and unwilling to register and vote. By Any Media Necessary offers a profoundly different picture of contemporary American youth. Young men and women are tapping into the potential of new forms of communication such as social media platforms, spreadable videos and memes, remixing the language of popular culture, and seeking to bring about political changeby any media necessary. In a series of case studies covering a diverse range of organizations, networks, and movements involving young people in the political procesTrade ReviewReaders are given a nuanced picture of the successes and complications of youth activism and participatory politics in the current era. * Choice *By Any Media Necessaryis fascinating continuation of Jenkinss previous work and should be of great use for media studies scholars, as well as anyone interested in better understanding youth perceptions and actions related to the political realm. * Journal of American Culture *In line with civic media scholarship that focuses on the opportunities for emerging technologies and digital cultures to buttress collective action, By Any Media Necessary suggests the important role of new media and technologies in facilitating political engagement and participatory practice. The notions of transmedia activism and mobilization are effectively analyzed to discuss how youth tap into the potentials of media platforms and networked communications—from social media, spreadable videos, and Internet memes—and use their digital skills in a collaborative and participatory manner in seeking to bring about political change. -- International Journal of CommunicationFantasy is not an escape from our world; its an invitation to go deeper into it. The most relevant book of our era, it will undoubtedly inspire you and those you love to join the millions of people who are transforming our world: by any media necessary. -- Andrew Slack,creator/co-founder of the Harry Potter AllianceA far-reaching book that explores the many different digital strategies and platforms young people use to have their voices heard and their political agendas advanced. The case studies at the heart of this book are powerful, telling the story of how young people across demographic categories are using digital media to engage in a new form of politicsParticipatory Politicsthat is destined to significantly shape civic life for years to come. -- Cathy J. Cohen,author of Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American PoliticsA much-needed narration of political agency that tackles its many contradictions head on, without losing sight of nuance. The books case studies, rich in detail, are wonderful invitations to think more and better about the role of empathy, care, ethics, empowerment, and participation in our contemporary political realities. -- Nico Carpentier,Uppsala University, SwedenAn indispensable guide to the changing shape of civic and political agency in a digital age. With richly detailed case studies, Jenkins and his team have captured an origin story: the moment when participatory culture got hooked up with politics and the fundamentals of modern democracies shifted beneath our feet. -- Danielle Allen,co-editor of From Voice to Influence: Understanding Citizenship in the Digital AgeUnderstanding the connections between practices of media consumption andenduringcivic engagement is one of the most exciting challenges that cultural studies currently faces. For over a decade, Henry Jenkins has been exploring this issue, and now he and an excellent team of co-authors offer the most searching examination of this question for a U.S. context that we have. An inspiring and enlivening book, this is a definite must read! -- Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science

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Book Synopsis'I'm 79 years old. So why on earth should I concern myself with speaking about youth?' This is the question with which renowned French philosopher Alain Badiou begins his passionate plea to the young. Today young people, at least in the West, are on the brink of a new world. With the decline of old traditions, they now face more choices than ever before. Yet powerful forces are pushing them in dangerous directions, into the vortex of consumerism or into reactive forms of traditionalism. This is a time when young people must be particularly attentive to the signs of the new and have the courage to venture forth and find out what they're capable of, without being constrained by the old prejudices and hierarchical ideas of the past. And if the aim of philosophy is to corrupt youth, as Socrates was accused of doing, this can mean only one thing: to help young people see that they don't have to go down the paths already mapped out for them, that they are not just condemned to obey social customs, that they can create something new and propose a different direction as regards the true life.Trade Review"Scarcely any other moral philosopher of our day is as politically clear-sighted and courageously polemical, so prepared to put notions of truth and university back on the agenda."—Terry Eagleton, Lancaster University, UK "Alain Badiou's plea in this stimulating little book contains the 'serious coquetry' one expects from a philosopher committed to the corruption of youth: young people, whether young in body or mind, reorganize your youth, and in so doing reanimate thinking in radically new directions!"—Jason Barker, Kyung Hee UniversityTable of ContentsContents Note 1. To be young, today: Sense and nonsense 2. About the contemporary fate of boys 3. About the contemporary fate of girls

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the factors affecting the health and wellbeing of young people as they transition to adulthood under the shadow of migration control. Drawing on unique longitudinal data, it illuminates how they conceptualize wellbeing for themselves and others in contexts of prolonged and politically induced uncertainty. The authors offer an in-depth analysis of the experiences of over one hundred unaccompanied young migrants, primarily from Afghanistan, Albania and Eritrea. They show the lengths these young people will go to in pursuit of safety, security and the futures they aspire to. Interdisciplinary in nature, the book champions a new political economy analysis of wellbeing in the context of migration and demonstrates the urgent need for policy reform.Table of ContentsIntroduction Conceptualizing Wellbeing in the Context of Migration and Youth Transitions Capturing Wellbeing in Transition: An Alternative Approach ‘Iron Rod’ or ‘Colander’? Welfare Regimes in England and Italy The Pursuit of Safety and Freedom Legal Integrity and Recognition Identity and Belonging Constructing Viable Futures as ‘Adults’ Emotional and Mental Wellbeing Friendships, Connections and Relationships Transnational Family and Connections Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the vital role of public Christian worship in adolescent spiritual formation and shows how important youth ministry and worship ministry are to each other. Drawing on his extensive experience in worship ministry and youth ministry, Eric Mathis offers insights into the worship practices of teenagers, corrects common misperceptions about worship, and critically examines four prominent worship models. Mathis invites readers to elevate the voices of young people in the worshiping community and enhance worship for all ages. Foreword by Kenda Creasy Dean.Table of ContentsContents Introduction Part 1: Cultural Perspectives 1. Almost Christian 2. Lessons from the Past 3. Worship with Teenagers Part 2: Liturgical Perspectives 4. Linking God's Story with Teenagers' Story 5. From Intergenerational to Adoptive Worship 6. Worship and Culture Part 3: Pastoral Perspectives 7. Teenagers, Emotions, and Worship 8. Congregational Worship with Teenagers 9. Youth Group Worship with Teenagers Appendixes Index

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Book SynopsisThe Kindness of Strangers takes a hard, realistic look at mentoring while offering a vivid portrayal of the mentoring movement and how ordinary citizens in cities across America are trying to turn young lives around.Table of Contents1. A Call to Action 2. Great Expectations 3. Recurring Fervor 4. Birth of a Movement 5. The Benefits of Mentoring 6. The Limits of Mentoring 7. Making the Most of Mentoring 8. Closing the Caring Gap 9. Re-engaging the Middle Class 10. Reinventing Community

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Book SynopsisThe theme of this volume, studies in macro-micro influences on children, in their pathways to adulthood is aimed at examining the points of intersect between individual and family level reactions to the socioeconomic forces buffeting all industrialised societies. The papers in this volume allow understanding of the larger context which children acquire their experience and capacities for growth.Table of ContentsThe macro-micro connection; growing up as a modern child in Western Europe - the impact of modernization and civilization processes on the everyday lives of children; Peter Buchner, Heinz-Hermann Kruger and Manuela du Bois-ReymondEthnic group differences in children's coping strategies; Paul E. Jose, Lynda L. Cafasso and Catherine A. D'Anna The family context of adolescent vulnerability and resilience to alcohol use and abuse; Rand D. Conger, Martha A. Rueter and Katherine J. Conger Influences on migration intentions of rural adolescents; Laura Rudkin, Glen H. Elder, Jr and Rand Conger Conceptions of childhood transitions - a preliminary study; Marcia Summers and Carol Baker Adolescent-to-adult transitions - social status and cognitive factors; Scott D. Scheer and Rob Palkovitz Transition to higher education in the United States - institutional boundaries and pathways to adulthood; David P. Baker and David L. Stevenson Leaving home and coming back - the impact of recent parental divorce and family dynamics on young adults residential transitions; Teresa M. Cooney Foster home providers to children with severe developmental disabilities - a profile; Ann Goetting and Mark G. Goetting Support and control in parent-child relations from childhood to early adolescence - the Maccoby-Minuchin hypothesis; Brian J. Bigelow, Elizabeth A. Levin and Sandra A. Cunning

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Book SynopsisEmerging Adults in America: Coming of Age in the 21st Century portrays the lives of young Americans between adolescence and young adulthood, a distinct developmental stage that editor Jeffrey Jensen Arnett describes as emerging adulthood. Over the past 40 years, the average age of marriage and parenthood has risen dramatically, and the years from the late teens through the mid-20s are no longer dedicated to settling into traditional adult roles. Instead, the focus has shifted to pursuing higher education, self-exploration, and shaping a future that best suits personal goals and desires. Along with coeditor Jennifer Lynn Tanner, Arnett has compiled a collection of chapters in this groundbreaking work that cover a range of topics from relationships with parents to views about love, sex, and marriage; from experiences in college to those in the work place; and from religious beliefs to beliefs about the concept of adulthood. This insightful book will be a valuable resource for developmental psychologists, therapists, and mental health practitioners who work with emerging adults and will appeal to young people and their families. Trade ReviewThis book is a must for those interested in, or working with, families in understanding the realities of today’s emerging adults, and also for those who are themselves emerging into adulthood. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContributorsForewordPrefaceI. Theoretical Foundations Emerging Adulthood: Understanding the New Way of Coming of Age —Jeffrey Jensen Arnett Recentering During Emerging Adulthood: A Critical Turning Point in Life Span Human Development —Jennifer Lynn Tanner II. Individual Characteristics Emerging Structures of Adult Thought —Gisela Labouvie-Vief Emerging Adulthood as an Institutionalized Moratorium: Risks and Benefits to Identity Formation —James E. Côté Ethnic Identity Exploration in Emerging Adulthood —Jean S. Phinney Mental Health During Emerging Adulthood: Continuity and Discontinuity in Courses, Causes, and Functions —John E. Schulenberg and Nicole R. Zarrett Resilience in Emerging Adulthood: Developmental Perspectives on Continuity and Transformation —Ann S. Masten, Jelena Obradovic, and Keith B. Burt III. Contexts Family Relationships and Support Systems in Emerging Adulthood —William S. Aquilino Friendships and Romance in Emerging Adulthood: Assessing Distinctiveness in Close Relationships —W. Andrew Collins and Manfred van Dulmen "Sex Is Just a Normal Part of Life": Sexuality in Emerging Adulthood —Eva S. Lefkowitz and Meghan M. Gillen School, Work, and Emerging Adulthood —Stephen F. Hamilton and Mary Agnes Hamilton Emerging Adults in a Media-Saturated World —Jane D. Brown IV. ConclusionThe Psychology of Emerging Adulthood: What Is Known, and What Remains to Be Known —Jeffrey Jensen Arnett IndexAbout the Editors

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Book SynopsisAn illustrated, essential guide to engaging children and youth in the process of urban design From a history of children’s rights to case studies discussing international initiatives that aim to create child-friendly cities, Placemaking with Children and Youth offers comprehensive guidance in how to engage children and youth in the planning and design of local environments. It explains the importance of children’s active participation in their societies and presents ways to bring all generations together to plan cities with a high quality of life for people of all ages. Not only does it delineate best practices in establishing programs and partnerships, it also provides principles for working ethically with children, youth, and families, paying particular attention to the inclusion of marginalized populations. Drawing on case studies from around the world—in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, Puerto Rico, the Netherlands, South Africa, and the United States—Placemaking with Children and Youth showcases children’s global participation in community design and illustrates how a variety of methods can be combined in initiatives to achieve meaningful change. The book features more than 200 visuals and detailed, thoughtful guidelines for facilitating a multiplicity of participatory processes that include drawing, photography, interviews, surveys, discussion groups, role playing, mapping, murals, model making, city tours, and much more. Whether seeking information on individual methods and project planning, interpreting and analyzing results, or establishing and evaluating a sustained program, readers can find practical ideas and inspiration from six continents to connect learning to the realities of students’ lives and to create better cities for all ages.Trade ReviewFrom the forward-thinking mind-set of creating sustainable future cities, this practical guide outlines how to engage youth in local research and action for environmental planning and design. Including case studies on child-friendly city initiatives, this title shares best practices for working ethically with children, and proposes cross-generational engagement, with attention to equity. * Public Art Review *This wonderful book recognizes that sustainable development calls for highly participatory local communities, including children and youth, who can cooperatively plan for and flexibly respond to environmental change. Based on this engaged view of citizenship, it offers a comprehensive range of practical methods for everyone. -- Roger Hart, Professor, Graduate Center of the City University of New YorkWhat an inspiring, fresh addition to the hallowed library of human habitat design! I am so grateful that this book has been written, with its guidance on how to engage kids, how to work in diverse urban environments, and its numerous case studies that can be replicated. Now, many more children can be assisted to grow into their full potential as community leaders and changemakers! * Mark Lakeman, Founder, The City Repair Project *Placemaking with Children and Youth makes a valuable contribution to the growing body of literature that focuses on the practice of place-based education. Even novices to this approach will find simple and straightforward tools capable of opening up the world of local inquiry and action to both themselves and their students. * Gregory A. Smith, Professor Emeritus, Lewis & Clark College *

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Book SynopsisDuring the civil rights era, Memphis gained a reputation for having one of the South’s strongest NAACP branches. But that organization, led by the city’s black elite, was hardly the only driv­ing force in the local struggle against racial injustice. In the late sixties, Black Power proponents advocating economic, political, and cultural self-determination effectively mobilized Memphis’s African American youth, using an array of moderate and radical approaches to protest and change conditions on their campuses and in the community.While Black Power activism on the coasts and in the Midwest has attracted considerable scholarly attention, much less has been written about the movement’s impact outside these hot­beds. In Black Power in the Bluff City, Shirletta J. Kinchen helps redress that imbalance by ex­amining how young Memphis activists like Coby Smith and Charles Cabbage, dissatisfied by the pace of progress in a city emerging from the Jim Crow era, embraced Black Power ideology to con­front such challenges as gross disparities in housing, education, and employment as well as police brutality and harassment. Two closely related Black Power organizations, the Black Organizing Project and the Invaders, became central to the local black youth movement in the late 1960s. Kinchen traces these groups’ participation in the 1968 sanitation workers’ strike—including the controversy over whether their activities precipitated events that culminated in Martin Luther King’s assassination—and their subsequent involvement in War on Poverty programs. The book also shows how Black Power ideology drove activism at the historically black LeMoyne-Owen Col­lege, scene of a 1968 administration-building takeover, and at the predominately white Memphis State University, where African American students transformed the campus by creating parallel institutions that helped strengthen black student camaraderie and consciousness in the face of marginalization.Drawing on interviews with activists, FBI files, newspaper accounts from the period, and many other sources, the author persuasively shows not only how an emerging generation helped define the black freedom struggle in Memphis but also how they applied the tenets of Black Power to shape the broader community.

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Book SynopsisSocial media and digital tools permeate the everyday lives of young people. In the early stages of commentary about the impact of the digital age on civic life, debates revolved around whether the Internet enhanced or discouraged civic and political action. Since then we have seen new media move to center stage in politics and activism--from the 2008 US election to the 2011 Arab Spring to the Occupy movement. We have also seen new patterns in how different sub-groups make use of digital media. These developments have pushed people to move beyond questions about whether new media are good or bad for civic life, to ask instead: how, under what conditions, and for whom, do new digital tools become resources for political critique and action by the young?This book will provide a platform for a new wave of scholarship about young people’s political participation in the digital age. We define “youth” or “young people” as roughly between the ages of 12 and 25. We include perspectives from political science, education, cultural studies, learning sciences, and youth development. We draw on the framework developed by the MacArthur Research Network on Youth and Participatory Politics (Cohen, Kahne, Bowyer, Middaugh, & Rogowski, 2012), which defines participatory politics as, “interactive, peer-based acts through which individuals and groups seek to exert both voice and influence on issues of public concern.”

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Book SynopsisSocial media and digital tools permeate the everyday lives of young people. In the early stages of commentary about the impact of the digital age on civic life, debates revolved around whether the Internet enhanced or discouraged civic and political action. Since then we have seen new media move to center stage in politics and activism--from the 2008 US election to the 2011 Arab Spring to the Occupy movement. We have also seen new patterns in how different sub-groups make use of digital media. These developments have pushed people to move beyond questions about whether new media are good or bad for civic life, to ask instead: how, under what conditions, and for whom, do new digital tools become resources for political critique and action by the young?This book will provide a platform for a new wave of scholarship about young people’s political participation in the digital age. We define “youth” or “young people” as roughly between the ages of 12 and 25. We include perspectives from political science, education, cultural studies, learning sciences, and youth development. We draw on the framework developed by the MacArthur Research Network on Youth and Participatory Politics (Cohen, Kahne, Bowyer, Middaugh, & Rogowski, 2012), which defines participatory politics as, “interactive, peer-based acts through which individuals and groups seek to exert both voice and influence on issues of public concern.”

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Book SynopsisRochester Adolescent Medicine has a long history as one of the earliest programs in the country. Spanning over six decades, the program has grown from a weekly ambulatory session to a fully functioning division of the Department of Pediatrics with an array of complex clinical, research, educational, and community programs of national/international significance. Interviews with over thirty former and present University residents, fellows, and faculty members in Adolescent Medicine showcase these practitioners' extraordinary passion and dedication for caring for adolescents and their families. Faculty and former fellows from Rochester Adolescent Medicine have been leaders at the forefront of almost every major decision about the field of Adolescent Medicine since its inception. Adolescent Medicine has never been more critical than it is now, and the field continues its dedication to equity, diversity, and integrity in all programs. This book celebrates Rochester's six-decade contributions to optimum health for adolescents and their families; the partnership with the University of Rochester and the Rochester community; and the training of future generations of leaders in Adolescent Medicine.Table of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations 1. Frank M. Biro, MD 2. Erica A. Bostick, MD 3. Suzanne J. Bumpus, RN, MS, FNP-c 4. Adrienne Stith Butler, PhD 5. Giuseppina "Giosi" Di Meglio, MD, MPH, FRCP, FSAHM 6. Arthur B. Elster, MD, MJ 7. Fellows (Recent Graduates): Nicole Cifra, MD, MPH, MHPEd Melissa A. Dundas, MD, FAAP Amy Y. Paul, DO 8. Maury Frieman, EdD, MSW, MSc 9. Katherine Blumoff Greenberg, MD 10. Donald E. Greydanus MD, Dr. HC (ATHENS) 11. Lisa B. Handwerker, MD, FAAP 12. Jonathan D. Klein, MD, MPH 13. Cheryl M. Kodjo, MD, MPH 14. Richard E. Kreipe, MD 15. Elizabeth R. McAnarney, MD 16. Laurie A. Mitan, MD, FAAP 17. Steve North, MD, MPH, FAAFP 18. Donald P. Orr, MD 19. Kathy H. Rideout, EdD, PPCNP-BC, FNAP 20. Brett W. Robbins, MD 21. Sheryl A. Ryan, MD 22. Olle Jane (O.J.) Sahler, MD 23. David M. Siegel, MD, MPH 24. Taylor B. Starr, DO, MPH 25. Helene Thompson-Scott, CNM, MS 26. Jane I. Tuttle, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, FAANP 27. LeKeyah N. Wilson, MD 28. W. Sam Yancy, MD 29. Susan (Shellie) M. Yussman, MD, MPH

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers new insights into the assessment of the language of Young Learners (YLs). YLs are defined here as being from 5 to 17 years, and are treated as three distinct subgroups: younger children (5/6 to 8/9 years), older children (8/9 to 12/13 years) and teenagers (12/13 to 17 years).The first half addresses fundamental issues, beginning with the characteristics of YLs and how these are manifested in first language development. The authors consider the potential ability of each age group to perform in a second or foreign language, proposing a rough age-related correspondence with CEFR levels. Finally, principles of assessment, specifically formative assessment and testing, are presented in the light of linguistic, cognitive and social development.The second half focusses on testing a range of 'skills'. Theoretical models of performance are introduced, followed by a practical analysis of approaches to the testing of each skill for the three age groups, illustrated with examples. The authors conclude by summing up developmental characteristics of each age group, and their implications for language testing.The book is intended for a wide readership within the field of teaching and assessing the language of young learners. Researchers are offered scope for further investigation of what emerges from the discussion, while practitioners will hopefully find support in their day-to-day work with YLs.Trade ReviewOverall, I believe that this is a very comprehensive and nice introduction to assessment for young learners. It was written in such a clear and accessible manner. This book will be a great addition to the existing literature on this topic;Yoko Goto Butler, Associate Professor, Penn Graduate School of EducationTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Children and Teenagers: Developmental IssuesChapter 2: The L2 of Young LearnersChapter 3: The Common European Framework of ReferenceChapter 4: Assessing the L2 of Young LearnersChapter 5: Testing ReadingChapter 6: Testing WritingChapter 7: Testing SpeakingChapter 8: Testing Listening Chapter 9: Testing Vocabulary and Grammar Chapter 10: Conclusion Appendix A: An Overview of Nippold's Findings on L1 Development at Ages 5, 10, 15 and 25 Years Appendix B.1: AYLLIT Scale of Descriptors Appendix B.2: The Aptis for Teens Scales for Assessing the Writing of Teenagers Appendix B.3: The Aptis for Teens Scales for Assessing the Speaking of Teenagers Appendix C.1: Click and Drag Item - Norwegian National Testing of English (NNTE) (Reading, 5th Grade) Appendix C.2: Click and Drag Item - Norwegian National Testing of English (NNTE) (Reading, 5th Grade) Appendix C.3: Aptis for Teens B1 Reading Appendix C.4: Aptis for Teens B2 Reading Appendix C.5: Teens Writing Tasks Sample Item Appendix C.6: Aptis General (Adults) B2 Speaking (Long-turn) Appendix C.7: Aptis for Teens B2 Speaking (Long-turn)

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Book SynopsisReframing Irish Youth in the Sixties focuses on the position of youth in the Republic of Ireland at a time when the meaning of youth was changing internationally. It argues that the reformulation of youth as a social category was a key element of social change. While emigration was the key youth issue of the 1950s, in this period young people became a pivotal point around which a new national project of economic growth hinged. Transnational ideas and international models increasingly framed Irish attitudes to young people’s education, welfare and employment. At the same time, Irish youths were participants in a transnational youth culture that appeared to challenge the status quo. This book examines the attitudes of those in government, the media, in civil society organisations and religious bodies to youth and young people, addressing new manifestations of youth culture and new developments in youth welfare work. In using youth as a lens, this book takes an innovative approach that enables a multi-faceted examination of the sixties, providing fresh perspectives on key social changes and cultural continuities.Trade Review'A pioneering study of youth culture in 1960s Ireland that makes a significant contribution to our understanding of post-war Irish society.' Professor Robert Savage, Boston College‘Widely researched and persuasively argued, Holohan’s book is a welcome addition to the developing body of work on the history of Irish youth.’ Marnie Hay, Studia Hibernica ‘Holohan is wide ranging in her use of sources and rigorous and penetrating in her archival scholarship...she accompanies this archival labour with a nuanced sense of how categories are mobilized, and how language shapes discourse. Indeed, she is notable for the way that she combines sociological and cultural approaches to the past, both using sociological data effectively while analysing the way that the same studies constructed understandings of ‘social problems’ and their causes. As such, it tells us a great deal about Ireland in the mid-twentieth century, how the constellations of authority of church, state, market and sociology shifted and were reconfigured in the formation of new types of Irish citizen.’ Erika Hanna, Social History ‘A fascinating reappraisal of the image of vernacular Irish youth culture… [an] important new addition to the scholarship and historical re-evaluation of [a] critical decade of the mid-century development of modern Ireland.’ Barry Houlihan, Irish Historical Studies'[A]s Holohan points out in this erudite, scholarly and well-researched book, the sixties in Ireland was not a period of social or cultural revolution. Rather it was more of a gradual merging of the old into the new.'Tom Inglis, History IrelandTable of ContentsIntroduction I1 Practical patriots2 New opportunities, enduring attitudes3 Teens ’n’ twentiesII4 Juvenile delinquents?5 Youth welfare workConclusion

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Book SynopsisThis dynamic Handbook offers state-of-the-art analysis of the new generation of youth activists who are demanding change. Bringing together eminent scholars, rising academic stars and youth activists, this Handbook provides a unique and essential insight into the power of youth activism today.Jerusha Conner deftly brings together contributors from the global north and south who explore youth activism through a range of multidisciplinary methods including systematic literature reviews, ethnographic studies, photo-voice exhibits and first-hand narrative accounts. Chapters cover the nature of youth activism in different geopolitical contexts, the invisible labour of youth activism, and the effects of youth activism on youth, their institutions, and societies. Presenting findings from cutting-edge research, this Handbook highlights how youth activists are sparking important conversations about what is right and what must change in their institutions, nation-states, and the world in order to secure a just and viable future for themselves and others.An authoritative analysis of the field, this Handbook will be an invaluable resource for academics, students and researchers specialising in politics and public policy, sociology and social policy, education policy and the sociology of youth and childhood. It will also be of interest to youth activists and their allies to better understand, assess, and improve their movements’ efficacy.Trade Review‘This Handbook provides a remarkable compendium of the essential work young people are doing to demand change at the local, national, and transnational levels. Although warned by the editors not to romanticize youth activists, it is impossible to walk away from this book without a deep sense of hope for the future.’ -- Amy J. Binder, Johns Hopkins University, US‘Jerusha Conner has pulled together a remarkable collection that reflects the diversity of the burgeoning field of research on youth activism. Like the field itself, these chapters are interdisciplinary, international, multi-method, and engaged with a wide range of theoretical traditions, but united in their commitment to taking youth activists seriously as a source of both social transformation and academic insight. This Handbook will be invaluable to anyone looking for a deeper understanding of the cultural, social, and political dynamics of contemporary youth activism.’ -- Jessica Taft, University of California, Santa Cruz, US‘This important book takes a much-needed global and environmental perspective to key issues of our time, providing new insights about how activism impacts young people, society, and their communities. Its deep description of local contexts and new methodologies honors the complexity of how young people challenge intersecting systems of power.’ -- Matthew Diemer, University of Michigan, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: youth activism in a context of global uncertainty and biographical precarity xix Jerusha Conner, Uyiosa Elegon and Alison K. Cohen PART I THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF YOUTH ACTIVISM 1 The political participation of young people in times of crisis: a framework for analysis 2 Daniela Chironi, Donatella della Porta and Chiara Milan 2 Developmental foundations of environmental activism 16 Alisa A. Pykett, Erin Gallay and Constance Flanagan 3 The disruptive power of recognition and young environmental activists 31 Judith Bessant and Sarah Pickard 4 Using a human rights lens: learning from children’s activism 46 E. Kay M. Tisdall and Patricio Cuevas-Parra PART II YOUTH ACTIVISM IN SPECIFIC GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXTS 5 Youth activism in Ukraine before and during the Russia–Ukraine war 61 Olena Nikolayenko 6 Why and how South Asian youth are involved in politics: a systematic review of literature 75 Yog Raj Lamichhane and Bharat Raj Dhakal 7 Charting youth activism in Chile: contemporary areas and trends 91 Juan Pablo Rodríguez, Lucía Miranda Leibe, Rodrigo Torres, Nicolás Ortiz and Nicolás Angelcos PART III METHODOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN THE STUDY OF YOUTH ACTIVISM 8 Methods for a multimodal, collaborative, and engaged research practice: mapping youth activism and cultural production across time and space 107 Maurice Rafael Magaña, Anthony Gerard Wright and Jurhamuti José Velázquez Morales 9 By us, for us: a women of color student activist photo-narrative exhibit for sociopolitical wellbeing 123 Jesica Siham Fernández and Danielle N. Aguilar 10 Visual politicization and youth challenges to an unequal public sphere: conceptual and methodological perspectives 140 Eeva Luhtakallio, Taina Meriluoto and Carla Malafaia 11 Ambivalent narratives of the political self: notes on the coproduction of audio-visual stories in Cape Town and Luanda 154 Chloé Buire PART IV THE NATURE OF YOUTH ACTIVISTS’ LABOR 12 Keeping the store in order: an ethnography of youth activism’s everyday work 169 Ilaria Pitti 13 Coming out in solidarity: the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy as a space of support and experimentation for queer youth 183 Gavin Brown 14 Racism and youth climate activism: what can we learn from racism allegations about the image exclusions of black women activists? 196 Brendon Barnes 15 Enabling conditions and challenges of youth sexual and reproductive rights activism in Indonesia 210 Rinaldi Ridwan and Putri Widi Saraswati 16 An ideal activist in a privileged society: studying the internal negotiations and practices of being a young Danish activist 226 Maria Bruselius-Jensen PART V EFFECTS OF YOUTH ACTIVISM ON YOUTH 17 Reframing school engagement: relationships to school among youth organizing participants working for educational justice 241 Sara McAlister 18 Movements forward: finding healing through activism 257 Marlene Palomar, Abraham Jones and Ben Kirshner 19 Black youth, digital activism, and racial battle fatigue: how Black youth enact hope, humor, and healing online 272 Tiera Tanksley and Alexis E. Hunter 20 Political context and Russian youth: the political socialization of young activists under authoritarianism 289 Svetlana Erpyleva PART VI EFFECTS OF YOUTH ACTIVISM ON THEIR INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETY 21 “These are my greatest accomplishments”: how US youth activists frame their biggest wins 304 Oladimeji Fatoki, Amanda Galczyk, Christopher M. Wegemer, Laura Wray-Lake and Jerusha Conner 22 “Real change takes time”: building multi-dimensional youth community power in a participatory design collective 319 Kathryn Y. Morgan, Kayla Anderson, Joseph KaiKai, Lema Shaltaf and Brian D. Christens 23 On and off: representations and omissions of youth activism in political campaign ads (Brazil and Argentina, 1980s and 2010s) 336 Dolores Rocca Rivarola 24 #WeAreRemovingADictator: the 2021 Uganda election crisis, the possibilities and limits of youth digital activism 351 M. Ainomugisha and Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire 25 The White Ribbon movement and its achievement in uprooting the conservative Thai state 365 Kanokrat Lertchoosakul

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Book SynopsisIn this unique and passionate book, Doug Nicholls proposes a cultural revolution within youth work. He draws on the best of youth work's past to redesign the youth work map for today. He speaks with wit, wisdom and warmth to youth workers about their craft. Yet he takes no intellectual prisoners in proposing a new role for youth work in the struggle for social justice. No student or practitioner should miss it.Trade Review“This is a powerful, wide ranging and thought provoking book which needs to be read by a wider audience than just those involved in working directly with young people.” Kevin Donnelly"a refreshing and illuminating read" Children and Young People Now"Timely, essential" Graham Bright, York St John University"Nicholls brings a different perspective to the youth work literature" Jean Hatton, University of Hudersfield"An honest and passionate defence for youth work" Billie Oliver, UWE"An excellent, honest read" Rachael Fell-Chambers, Bishop Grosseteste University College"Extremely accessible, this will challenge and appeal to youth workers, students, academics and policy makers alike. Essential and timely reading." Kev Henman, Divisional Youth Officer, Devon Youth Service"Doug Nicholls' message - the need for a new youth work for a new century - is sometimes polemical, often provocative, invariably partisan and always passionate. But it is principled, and it is essential that we reflect carefully on his words." Howard Williamson, Professor of European Youth Policy, University of Glamorgan"For Youth Workers and Youth Work is an accessible, essential and timely read for statutory and voluntary sector service managers, youth workers, educationalists, students and policy makers interested in the wellbeing of young people in Britain both now and in the future, and how best to promote youth work. I strongly recommend it." Youth and Policy journalTable of ContentsWhat youth workers do; Youth work and neoliberalism in Britain; Youth workers as workers; Youth workers as trade unionists; Youth workers as professionals; Youth workers as socialists; Youth workers in defence of youth work; Youth work and positive activities and holiday camps; Youth workers as leaders; Youth workers as reflective analytical practitioners; Youth workers and the state; Youth workers and internationalism; Youth work and inequality; Youth in a suspect society; New youth workers, new youth work.

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Book SynopsisThis book looks at the inter-ethnic relations, racial prejudice, gender equality, the development of ethnic identity; bilingualism; the practice of home religion; and scholastic achievement and adjustment. Its aim it to provide an up-to-date picture of the situation of South Asian and Chinese adolescents living in the UK today.Trade Review'This is an important book which aims to address issues pertaining to the life experiences of adolescents living in the west ... it is important to note that this is the only book in Asian adolescents which will have a wide readership, such as academics, professionals, students, social workers and the Asian community ... The author has introduced thought-provoking arguments for some new concepts such as 'marginal man' and 'hyphenated identity' to augment the need for a 'contextual identity' for Asian adolescents in the UK.' Journal of Adolescence. 'In his usual lucid and pointed style Ghuman analyses both the negative and the positive aspects of bi-cultural socialisation across the range of domains which are central to the experiences of this age group. This book, which is both scholarly and interesting, is destined to become the definitive work on this important topic.' Ray Cochrane, Professor of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK.Table of Contents1. Introduction. 2. First Generation: religion, value orientations and gender issues. 3. Adolescents of the Second and Third Generation. 4. Ethnic Identity, Acculturation and Self-Image. 5. Schools and Asian Young People. 6. Reflections and Implications.

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Book SynopsisThe guide gives the practitioner an understanding of why children and adolescents may come to play fruit machines/video games to excess and includes knowledge about the risk factors involved in this. It includes practical and common-sense interventions that may be beneficial for such children and adolescents and also includes practical advice to give to parents facing their child’s behavioural addiction.Trade Review"Some of these [books in the PACTS series 2] are quite outstanding guides for practitioners, full of practical steps to take and worldly wisdom as well as good theretical grounding ... there are a couple on behaviours that are less commonly covered in other places, including Avoiding Risky Sex, and Gambling. Its is very welcome to have these issues addressed in such a pragmatic way ... Overall I would recommend that this series is present for anybody working with adolescents, as they provide a very useful guide for trainees to get stuck in with treatment." Stephen Scott, Institute of Psychiatry, London, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Volume 9, No. 2, 2004, pp 92-96Table of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: Behavioural Addictions. Part II: Technological Addictions. Part III: Adolescent Gambling. Part IV: Gambling on Fruit Machines. Part V: Videogames and Fruit Machines – Commonalities. Part VI: Adolescent Videogame Playing. Part VII: Fruit Machines and Videogames – Some Final Comments. References. Further Reading. Appendices. Hints for Parents.

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Book SynopsisThis guide provides the practitioner with a description of risky sexual behaviour, an explanation of associated risk and protective factors, guidance on the prevention of such behaviour and an overview of what we now know about the development of successful prevention programmes.Trade Review"Some of these [books in the PACTS series 2] are quite outstanding guides for practitioners, full of practical steps to take and worldly wisdom as well as good theretical grounding ... there are a couple on behaviours that are less commonly covered in other places, including Avoiding Risky Sex, and Gambling. Its is very welcome to have these issues addressed in such a pragmatic way ... Overall I would recommend that this series is present for anybody working with adolescents, as they provide a very useful guide for trainees to get stuck in with treatment." Stephen Scott, Institute of Psychiatry, London, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Volume 9, No. 2, 2004, pp 92-96Table of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: Development and Sexuality. Part II: Prevention Practices. References. Further Reading. Appendices.

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Book SynopsisIt aims to provide the practitioner with a description of depression, an explanation of factors that contribute to mood disorders and guidance on their assessment and treatment in adolescence. In addition, it aims to provide a framework for the assessment and management of adolescence that have threatened or attempted suicide.Trade Review"Some of these [books in the PACTS series 2] are quite outstanding guides for practitioners, full of practical steps to take and worldly wisdom as well as good theretical grounding ... The one on Depression and Attempted Suicide is by Alan Carr and, again, is thorough and broad in its approach, not shying away from medication if this is required in addition to psychological therapy ... Overall I would recommend that this series is present for anybody working with adolescents, as they provide a very useful guide for trainees to get stuck in with treatment." Stephen Scott, Institute of Psychiatry, London, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Volume 9, No. 2, 2004, pp 92-96Table of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: Depression. Part II: Attempted Suicide. References. Further Reading. Appendices.

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Book SynopsisThis guide provides information about aggression and its development during childhood and adolescence. It introduces bullying as a subset of aggressive behaviour, highlights research on the nature and extent of bullying in schools and outlines some of the characteristics of children involved in bullying. It helpfully suggests common signs of bullying that Parents and practitioners need to be aware of and offers interventions and resources for those dealing with this behaviour.Trade Review"Some of these [books in the PACTS series 2] are quite outstanding guides for practitioners, full of practical steps to take and worldly wisdom as well as good theretical grounding ... Overall I would recommend that this series is present for anybody working with adolescents, as they provide a very useful guide for trainees to get stuck in with treatment." Stephen Scott, Institute of Psychiatry, London, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Volume 9, No. 2, 2004, pp 92-96Table of ContentsIntroduction. Aims. Objectives. Part I: Aggression:. 1. What is Aggression?. 2. The Changing Nature of Aggression. 3. Are Boys More Aggressive Than Girls?. 4. When is Aggressive Behaviour a Problem?. 5. Factors Relating to Aggression. 6. Individual Differences in Aggression. 7. Tackling Aggression. Part II: Bullying:. 8. What is Bullying?. 9. Where Does Bullying Take Place?. 10. Types of Bullying. 11. How Common is Bullying?. 12. Effects of Bullying. 13. Who is Involved in Bullying?. 14. Tackling Bullying. Conclusion. References. Appendices:. Appendix A: Assessing Aggression. Appendix B: Bullying Resources. Hints for Parents.

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Book SynopsisGuiding the reader through definitions, causation, assessment and treatment, the book offers a useful insight into this complex area whilst offering practical advice on how to deal with panic disorder and anxiety.Trade Review"Some of these [books in the PACTS series 2] are quite outstanding guides for practitioners, full of practical steps to take and worldly wisdom as well as good theretical grounding ... The one on panic disorders has Tom Ollendick as a co-author and is up to date in using the latest cognitive and behavioural approaches ... Overall I would recommend that this series is present for anybody working with adolescents, as they provide a very useful guide for trainees to get stuck in with treatment." Stephen Scott, Institute of Psychiatry, London, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Volume 9, No. 2, 2004, pp 92-96Table of ContentsIntroduction. Aims. Objectives. PART I: PANIC IN ADOLESCENTS. What Are Panic Attacks?. Non-Clinical Panic Attacks. Prevalence of Panic Attacks and Symptoms. What is Panic Disorder?. PART II: OTHER ANXIETY DISORDERS ASSOCIATED WITH PANIC IN ADOLESCENTS. Social Phobia. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Specific Phobia. PART III. THE THREE COMPONENTS OF ANXIETY. The Physical Component (‘What I Feel’). The Cognitive Component (‘What I Think’). The Behaviroural Component (‘What I Do’). The Cycle of Panic. PART IV: UNDERSTANDING THE CAUSES OF PANIC IN ADOLESCENTS. A Model of the Aetiology of Panic. Temperament, Attachment and Separation: Implications for the Development of Panic. PART V: ASSESSING ADOLESCENTS WITH PANIC AND ANXIETY. The Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM-IV, Child Version (ADIS-IV, Child Version). Panic Attributional Checklist. Self-Report Measures of Panic, Anxiety and Fear. Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index. Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale. Fear Survey Schedule for Children - Revised. Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children. Behavioural Assessment: A Behavioural Approach Task for an Adolescent with Panic Disorder. PART VI: TREATING ADOLESCENTS WITH PANIC AND ANXIETY. Panic Control Treatment for Adolescents. Sessions 1 and 2. Sessions 3-5. Sessions 6-8. Sessions 9-11. How helpful is PCT for adolescents? The case of Beth. Treating Other Anxiety Disorders in Adolescents. PART VII: WORKING WITH PARENTS. PART VIII: HELPING ADOLESCENTS WITH ANXIETY: SOME FINAL THOUGHTS. References. Further Reading. Sources of Instruments. APPENDICES. Appendix 1. Brief Screening Instrument for Panic Attacks and Panic Disorder in Adolescents. Appendix 2. Panic Attributional Checklist. Appendix 3. Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index. Appendix 4. Fear Survey Schedule for Children - Revised. Appendix 5. Treating My Teenager’s Panic Disorder: A Guide for Parents.

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Book SynopsisEconomic Socialization is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on how children and adolescents come to understand the economic world.The citizen of contemporary Western societies, while often lacking formal training in economics, is a skilled user and interpreter of the economy. International and interdisciplinary in scope, the chapters in this volume examine the social determinants of economic attitudes, beliefs and values, as well as opening out the concept of economic understanding to include social and macroeconomic factors. Specific issues addressed include the evolution of young people's ideas about wealth distribution, public ownership and the market, as well as the role of children as consumers and the association between economic beliefs and social class.Economic Socialization is a major contribution to economic psychology and brings together research and analysis, developing our understanding of the ways in which children learn about and engage in the economy.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction (P. Lunt) 2. The Economic Socialization of Children (A. Furnham) 3. Children as Consumers: In the Laboratory and Beyond (P. Pliner, J. Freedman, R. Abramovitch, P. Drake) 4. Developing Ideas about Distribution of Wealth (J. Dickinson, N. Emler) 5. Adolescents’ Economic Beliefs and Social Class (H. Dittmar) 6. Economic Participation and Economic Socialization (D.Leiser, M. Ganin) 7. Young People’s Understanding of Private and Public Ownership (F. Cram, S. Hung Ng, N. Jhaveri) 8. Consumer Education in French Families and Schools (D. Lassarre) 9. Playing the Market: The Autonomous Economic World of Children (P. Webley) 10. Economic Knowledge and the Formation of Economic Opinions and Attitudes (W. Walstad) 11. Social Factors of Economic Socialization (A. Silvia Bombi) Index

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Book SynopsisScholarly and activist perspectives on identities often overlooked in the study of geography: youth and age. Young people will bear the brunt of the impacts of present and emerging crises occurring at all scales, from the national to the global. This volume brings together scholars and activists from various backgrounds to analyze youth interactions with law and politics, focusing specifically on the US legal landscape. It uses the lens of youth geographies to consider how legal and political systems shape our spaces, and provides leading-edge perspectives through case studies of child labor, compulsory education, asylum claims, criminalization of youth, youth activism, and more. Of special interest in this volume is the tension between young people as both objects of law and policy and creative agents of change. Despite being directly affected by law and policy, young people are denied access to many legally sanctioned paths to shape them. Yet youth find ways to work within and mold the social, political, and legal spheres and set the stage for alternative futures.Trade ReviewThis volume is one of the only of its kind, and its engagement with geography, the law, and policy—while reframing children and childhood—stands to make many contributions and interventions in the field."—Nicole Nguyen, author of A Curriculum of Fear: Homeland Security in US Public SchoolsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Gloria Howerton and Leanne Purdum Part 1: Attempts to Categorize and Manage Youth 1. Working and Schooling: A Critical Geography of Child Labor and Compulsory Education Laws in the Early Twentieth-Century United StatesMeghan Cope 2. Protecting Youth: The Dismantling of Youth as a “Particular Social Group” in Contemporary Asylum LawKristina M. Campbell 3. “Met with the Full Prosecutorial Powers”: Zero-Tolerance Family Separations, Advocacy, and the Exceptionalism of the Child Asylum SeekerLeanne Purdum 4. Understanding New York’s Opt-Out Movement: How School Segregation Shaped the Nation’s Largest Resistance to Standardized TestingOlivia Ildefonso Part 2: Youth Resistance and Resilience 5. The Coming of the Superpredators: Race, Policing, and Resistance to the Criminalization of YouthMarsha Weissman, Glenn Rodriguez, and Evan Weissman 6. BreakOUT!: Queer and Trans of Color Activism in New OrleansKrista L. Benson 7. Black Youth Resistance to Policies, Practices, and Dominant Narratives of the St. Louis Voluntary Desegregation PlanJerome E. Morris and Wanda F. McGowan 8. The Tribunal of the Future: Youth, Responsibility, and Temporal Justice in US Climate Change LitigationMark Ortiz Contributors Index

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