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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsTable of Contents 1 Child Protection Systems Across the World Jill Duerr Berrick, Neil Gilbert and Marit Skivenes Section I - Institutionalized 2 Child Protection in Australia and New Zealand: An Overview of Systems Judith Cashmore and Nicola Taylor 3 The Austrian Child Welfare System: Moving Towards Professionalization and Participation Katrin Kriz, Jenny Krutzinna and Peter Pantucek-Eisenbacher 4 Child Protection in Belgium: An Overview of the Systems Johan Vanderfaeillie, Erik Van Dooren and Jessica Segers 5 Child Welfare in Canada Nico Trocmé, Melanie Doucet, Barbara Fallon, Jennifer Nutton, and Tonino Esposito 6 The Child Protection Systems in Denmark and Norway Anne-Dorthe Hestbæk, Marit Skivenes, Asgeir Falch-Eriksen, Idamarie Leth Svendsen and Elisabeth Backe-Hansen 7 Child Welfare and Child Protection Services in England June Thoburn 8 Child Protection in Finland and Sweden Ingrid Höjer and Tarja Pösö 9 Child Protection and Welfare in France Flora Bolter 10 Child Protection and Welfare in Germany Kay Biesel and Heinz Kindler 11 Child Protection and Welfare on the Island of Ireland: Irish Issues, Global Relevance Kenneth Burns, John Devaney, Stephanie Holt and Gerry Marshall 12 Child Protection in Israel Daphna Gross-Manos, Eran Melkman and Aya Almog-Zaken 13 Child Protection in Mediterranean Countries: Italy and Greece Teresa Bertotti, Roberta T. Di Rosa, Charis Asimopoulos 14 A New Era for Child Protection in Japan Shoko Tokunaga, Mitsuru Fukui, Misa Saigo and Saki Nagano 15 The Child Protection System in the Netherlands: Characteristics, Trends, and Evidence Erik J. Knorth, Helen Bouma, Hans Grietens and Mónica López López 16 The Development of the Korean Child Protection System: Cultural Influences, Unique Challenges, and Policy Strategies Yiyoon Chung and TJ Lah 17 Child Protection Systems in Spain Sagrario Segado 18 Child Protection and Children's Services in Switzerland Stefan Schnurr 19 Child Protection in the United States Jennifer Lawson and Jill Duerr Berrick Section II - Emerging 20 The Chilean Child Protection System Carolina Muñoz-Guzman, Miguel Cillero Bruñol, Mariana Bernasconi 21 Czech Child Protection after 1989: Between Socialist Legacy and the European Call for Democratic Legitimacy Victoria Shmidt 22 Child Protection Systems in Estonia and Latvia Merle Linno and Judit Strömpl 23 Child Protection in Lithuania Ilona Tamutiene, Dalija Snieskiene 24 Child Protection in Poland Violetta Tanas 25 Child Protection in Portugal Jorge Ferreira 26 Child Protection System in the Slovak Republic Kvasnáková Lenka, Balogová Beáta 27 Child Protection in South Africa Julia Sloth-Nielsen 28 Child Protection System in Uruguay María del Luján González Tornaría and Delfina Miller Section III - Nascent 29 Building the Child Protection System in Argentina Carla Villata and Valeria Lobet 30 Child Protection Systems in Brazil Diene Monique Carlos, Ailton de Souza Aragão, Eliana Mendes de Souza Teixeira Roque, Lygie Maria Pereira da Silva 31 Child Protection Policy and Service in China Fang Zhao and Yanfeng Xu 32 Colombian Child Protection System María Cristina Torrado P. and Ernesto Duran Strauch 33 Ecuador: Child Protection Systems Verónica Jiménez Borja, Micaela Jiménez Borja, and Teresa Borja Álvarez 34 Child Protection in Egypt Hmoud S. Olimat and Amal A. ElGama 35 Child Protection Systems in Ghana Mavis Dako-Gyeke, Abigail Adubea Mills, and Doris Akyere Boateng 36 Child Protection System in India: An Overview Sanjai Bhatt and Subhashree Sanyal 37 The Social Construction and Development of an Integrated Child Protection System: In Search of Core Templates in a Diversified and Decentralized Indonesia Erna Dinata 38 Child Protection in Iran Marzieh Takaffoli, Meroe Vameghi, Maliheh Arshi, Leila Ostadhashemi 39 Child Protection in Lebanon Hoda Rizk 40 Children at Risk in Mexico: Issues, Policies, and Interventions Martha Frías Armenta 41 Child Protection System in Nigeria Chimezie Elekwachi 42 Protecting Children in the Philippines: A System Focused Overview of Policy and Practice Steven Roche and Florence Flores-Pasos 43 Reforming Russia's Child Protection System: From Residential to Family Care Meri Kulmala, Maija Jäppinen and Zhanna Chernova 44 Child Protection Systems in Uganda Deogratias Yiga 45 Making Child Protection Systems Work for Children: Lessons from Zimbabwe Mildred T. Mushunje Conclusion 46 Child Protection Systems: A Global Typology Jill Duerr Berrick, Neil Gilbert and Marit Skivenes

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Book SynopsisThe aim of Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Social Work is to provide a comprehensive text, taking on assessment (biopsychosocial-cultural/spiritual risk and resilience; DSM; standardized assessment scales); goal-setting; and intervention, including medication, evidence-based interventions and the process of evidence-based practice with children and adolescents. The social work context is integrated throughout by: 1) considering the complexities of multiple system levels involved with the occurrence of mental disorders and youth adjustment and recovery; and 2) professional ethics and demeanor when working with impoverished, diverse, and vulnerable youth populations in inter-disciplinary settings.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction and Overview Section I. Professional Social Work Context Chapter 2. Where and How do Social Workers Practice? Chapter 3. DSM and the Medical Model Chapter 4. Engagement Section II. Neurodevelopmental Disorders Chapter 5. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Chapter 6. Autism Spectrum Disorders Section III. Externalizing Problems Chapter 7. Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder Chapter 8: Substance Use Disorders Section IV. Internalizing Problems Chapter 9. Anxiety Disorders and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders Chapter 10. Depressive Disorders Chapter 11. Non-Suicidal Self Injury and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Chapter 12. Eating Disorders Chapter 13. Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders Section V. Appendix: Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

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Book SynopsisFrom slavery in the 19th century to racial disparities in school discipline that push them into the juvenile justice system, historically Black children have been denied a childhood. While schools are tough on Black children, Black caregivers often use tough love to prepare them for the world they will encounter. But if everyone is tough on Black children, who is gentle with them? Who allows them to be children? This book helps mental health professionals understand how racism, prejudice and discrimination contribute to mental health and behavioral issues in Black students that lead to high rates of school discipline, also known as the Preschool-to-Prison Pipeline. It explores how bias shapes the way the behaviors and moods of Black children are often misinterpreted and punished through unfair and subjective disciplinary methods. Mental health professionals are challenged to advocate for the mental health needs of Black students by using play therapy to engage caregivers, teachers, and administrators in providing culturally responsive support and nurturance to enhance their relationships with Black children. Using music, art, sand, and other expressive therapies, the book provides over 30 unique interventions for Black students of all ages to heal from racial trauma. The activities allow Black children the opportunity to process issues they encounter, like colorism and hair discrimination, while learning healthy skills to manage the trauma, anxiety, and depression that often results from their daily exposure to racial stress. The book is to help empower mental health professionals to feel more competent and comfortable to support the unique needs of Black students and pass that knowledge on to the adults in the lives of Black children and allow Black children to reclaim their childhood.

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Book SynopsisA guide to help parents teach their daughters to resist negative cultural messages.Never before have adolescent girls faced so many confusing and contradictory expectations. From a young age, popular culture teaches girls that their worth is based on their appearance, their ability to gain attention, and an ever-increasing accrual of accomplishments. With such unattainable standards, it is no wonder that many girls experience stress, self-doubt, and even mental health problems. Girls struggle to develop an authentic sense of self, even as they attempt to meet a set of impossible cultural expectations. Many parents feel helpless against the onslaught of negative influences targeting their daughters, but in Swimming Upstream: Parenting Girls for Resilience in a Toxic Culture, Laura Choate offers a message of reassurance. This book provides parents with a set of straightforward tools they can use to help their daughters navigate the trials and demands of contemporary girlhood. Choate draws upon years of research and counseling literature to teach parents how to instill the power of resilience in their daughters, including developing a positive body image, maintaining healthy relationships with friends and romantic partners, and navigating high-pressure academic environments. Based on cutting-edge research, this book contains the strategies that parents need to prepare their daughters with the life skills they need to resist destructive cultural influences. Though the journey through modern girlhood may be complicated - and even treacherous - this guide offers a user-friendly way for parents to help their daughters thrive in the midst of the negative pressures of modern culture. Practical and engaging, Swimming Upstream is a must-read for parents of girls of all ages.Trade Review"This book could be a game changer for families with girls and our society in general. Swimming Upstream analyzes the toxic obstacles for growing healthy and resilient girls with a depth of understanding and clarity. More importantly, Choate charts a realistic and helpful course for girls to negotiate these waters and thrive. Everyone who knows, works with, or loves a growing girl needs to read this book." -- JoAnn Deak, PhD, author of How Girls Thrive, Girls Will be Girls, Your Fantastic Elastic Brain, and the Owner's Manual for Driving Your Adolescent Brain "In this book, Dr. Choate details the rocky road of culture and pressure facing parents of girls. She provides an encouraging guidebook to help parents maneuver through those risky roads of girlhood. Through scripts and activities, Dr. Choate builds skills of parents to combat the pervasive and powerful nature of our current culture for the purpose of promoting resiliency in our young women. This is a must-read for parents of young girls and emerging women." -- Dee C. Ray, PhD, Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of North Texas "Taught to be thin, beautiful, hot, and sexy, girls are caught between dueling messages to act like a diva but still be kind and nice. Swimming Upstream is a must-read for every parent, every pediatric provider, and every teacher helping girls navigate today's toxic culture that equates self-worth with appearance, attention, and accomplishments." -- Margo Maine, PhD, FAED, CEDS, Eating Disorders Specialist, Author, and ActivistTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Introduction ; Part I: Taking a Tour of Girl World ; Chapter One: Appearance, Attention, Accomplishments: Toxic Cultural Expectations for Girls ; Chapter Two: Girls in Transition: Who Am I? ; Chapter Three: Vulnerable Girls: Common Mental Health Problems in Girls ; Part II: Parenting for Resilience ; Chapter Four: Resilience Dimension One: Parenting from Your Inner Core ; Chapter Five: Resilience Dimension Two: Developing Positive Body Image ; Chapter Six: Resilience Dimension Three: Cultivating Healthy Relationships ; Chapter Seven: Resilience Dimension Four: Keeping Success in Perspective ; Chapter Eight: Resilience Dimension Five: Charting My Life Course ; Conclusions ; Recommended Resources

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Book SynopsisAdolescence is a turbulent period to live through, and a time of importance and concern to parents, teachers, and social workers. Marking the transition from the world of childhood to adult life, the adolescent faces many challenges and opportunities, including forming their own identity, relating to often conflicting demands from parents and peers, and negotiating first romantic relationships. In this Very Short Introduction, Peter K. Smith provides an engaging and informative overview of what we know and what we are learning about adolescence. Including both a guide to the classical research that has informed our knowledge, as well as the results of the modern research into the contemporary adolescent experience, Smith examines a number of aspects of adolescence, including the cultural and historical context, the biological changes to the adolescent brain, and the controversies that adolescence brings.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade ReviewThrough a clear and fairly accessible language, Smith has created a concise and useful vade mecum on adolescence. * Sara Pisani, The Psychologist *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. Adolescence as a life stage ; 2. Puberty: body and brain changes ; 3. Cognitive aspects of adolescence ; 4. Relationship changes: parents and peers ; 5. Leisure pursuits and adolescents in the cyberworld ; 6. Risk taking in adolescence ; 7. Mental health in adolescence ; 8. Romantic development ; Further Reading ; Index

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Book SynopsisThe young people of the Cameroon Grassfields have been subject to a long history of violence and political marginalization. This book deals with their response to centuries of exploitation. It focuses on the repeated violent revolts staged by young victims of political oppression.Trade Review"Nicolas Argenti succeeds in doing justice to the uncanny tension evoked by the youth masquerades of Oku and their haunting performances. He offers challenging contributions to the study of dance, the indeterminacy of memory, and the actuality of the slave trade." - Peter Geschiere, University of Amsterdam"

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Book SynopsisWhen we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening on urban streets, in disadvantaged, crime - ridden neighborhoods. The authors offer an ethnography of the culture of suburban drug dealers. It will be of interest to scholars and policy makers alike.Trade Review"Code of the Suburb takes us into the world of young white suburban drug dealing and in doing so, provides a fascinating and powerful counterpoint to the devastation of the drug war in poor, minority communities. To readers familiar with that context, the absence of police and prisons-indeed, of virtually any negative consequences for selling and using drugs-is quite striking." (Alice Goffman, author of On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City)

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Book SynopsisOffers an ethnography of the culture of suburban drug dealers. This book shows that suburban drug dealers accord status to deliberate avoidance of conflict, which helps keep their drug markets more peaceful - and, consequently, less likely to be noticed by law enforcement.Trade Review"Code of the Suburb takes us into the world of young white suburban drug dealing and in doing so, provides a fascinating and powerful counterpoint to the devastation of the drug war in poor, minority communities. To readers familiar with that context, the absence of police and prisons-indeed, of virtually any negative consequences for selling and using drugs-is quite striking." (Alice Goffman, author of On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City)

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides portraits of rock and roll kids and analyses of their interests in heavy metal music and Satanism. It aims to draw new conclusions and to present solid reasons to admire the resilience of suburbia's dead-end kids.

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Book SynopsisWhen we consider the concept of sexual abuse and harassment, our minds tend to jump either towards adults caught in unhealthy relationships or criminals who take advantage of children. But the millions of maturing teenagers who also deal with sexual harassment can fall between the cracks. When it comes to sexual relationships, adolescents pose a particular problem. Few teenagers possess all of the emotional and intellectual tools needed to navigate these threats, including the all too real advances made by supervisors, teachers, and mentors. In Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers, Jennifer Drobac explores the shockingly common problem of maturing adolescents who are harassed and exploited by adults in their lives. Reviewing the neuroscience and psychosocial evidence of adolescent development, she explains why teens are so vulnerable to adult harassers. Even today, in an age of increasing public awareness, criminal and civil law regarding the sexual abuse of minors remains tragically inept and irregular from state to state. Drobac uses six recent cases of teens suffering sexual harassment to illuminate the flaws and contradictions of this system, skillfully showing how our current laws fail to protect youths, and offering an array of imaginative legal reforms that could achieve increased justice for adolescent victims of sexual coercion.

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Book SynopsisLooks at three neighborhoods in Boston to analyze the many complex ways that the context of community shapes the daily lives and long-term prospects of inner-city boys. Offering a glimpse into the world of urban adolescent boys, this title paints an insightful portrait of life in the inner city.Trade Review"Living the Drama tackles a substantive topic, engages in key theoretical debates, employs a distinctive comparative approach, gives ample voice to its subjects, and enriches our knowledge of poor youth." - Claude S. Fischer, University of California, Berkeley.

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Book SynopsisLooks at three neighborhoods in Boston to analyze the many complex ways that the context of community shapes the daily lives and long-term prospects of inner-city boys. Offering a glimpse into the world of urban adolescent boys, this title paints an insightful portrait of life in the inner city.Trade Review"Living the Drama tackles a substantive topic, engages in key theoretical debates, employs a distinctive comparative approach, gives ample voice to its subjects, and enriches our knowledge of poor youth." - Claude S. Fischer, University of California, Berkeley"

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Book SynopsisIn Doing Style, Constantine V. Nakassis explores the world of youth and mass media in South India, where what Tamil youth call style anchors their day-to-day lives and media worlds. Through intimate ethnographic descriptions of college life in Tamil Nadu, Nakassis explores the complex ways that acts and objects of style such as brand fashion, English slang, and film representations express the multiple desires and anxieties of this generation, who live in the shadow of the promise of global modernity. As Nakassis shows, while signs of the global, modern world are everywhere in post-liberalization India, for most of these young people this world is still very distanta paradox that results in youth's profound sense of being in between. This in-betweenness manifests itself in the ambivalent quality of style, the ways in which stylish objects are necessarily marked as counterfeit, mixed, or ironical. In order to show how this in-betweenness materializes in particular media, Nakassis ex

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Book SynopsisIn Doing Style, Constantine V. Nakassis explores the world of youth and mass media in South India, where what Tamil youth call style anchors their day-to-day lives and media worlds. Through intimate ethnographic descriptions of college life in Tamil Nadu, Nakassis explores the complex ways that acts and objects of style such as brand fashion, English slang, and film representations express the multiple desires and anxieties of this generation, who live in the shadow of the promise of global modernity. As Nakassis shows, while signs of the global, modern world are everywhere in post-liberalization India, for most of these young people this world is still very distanta paradox that results in youth's profound sense of being in between. This in-betweenness manifests itself in the ambivalent quality of style, the ways in which stylish objects are necessarily marked as counterfeit, mixed, or ironical. In order to show how this in-betweenness materializes in particular media, Nakassis explores the entanglements between youth peer groups and the sites where such stylish media objects are produced, arguing that these entanglements deeply condition the production and circulation of the media objects themselves. The result is an important and timely look at the tremendous forces of youth culture, globalization, and mass media as they interact in the vibrancy of a rapidly changing India.

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Book SynopsisContinued public outcries over such issues as the presence of young models in sexually suggestive ads and occurrences of intimate relationships between teachers and students speak to one of the most controversial fears of our time: the entanglement of children and sexuality. In this book, Steven Angelides confronts that very fear, arguing that adult alarm over child sexualization often masks the sexuality of children. Angelides explores how emotional vocabularies of anxiety, shame, and even contempt not only dominate discussions of youth sexuality but also allow adults to avoid acknowledging the sexual agency of young people. Introducing case studies and trends from Australia, the United Kingdom, and North America, he challenges prevalent assumptions toward a variety of topics, among them sex education, age-of-consent laws, and technology-driven phenomena like sexting. Along the way, Angelides contends that an unwillingness to recognize the sexual agency that children possess resu

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Book SynopsisHow can child care be structured to protect both the interests of children and the rights of women? Must children suffer the loss of their childhood through institutional care? Polakow uses her observations of pre-school centers--including profit-run, federally funded, community, and Montessori institutions--to open the windows of daycare.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An Epidemic of Uncertainty is dense and thorough in its engagement with the TLT study, interspersed with detailed ethnographic vignettes that give stories, names, and weight to the vast data collected and examined." * The Lancet *"The philosophy and history of mathematical probability and its applications have recently, and very evocatively, described it as ‘the taming of chance’. Trinitapoli reminds us that this is certainly not the case. The calculus of risk, however impressive its achievements, cannot dispel the uncertainty of life events as people actually experience them. In the course of her analysis, she builds a simple and powerful explanatory framework attentive not only to the findings of her own superb ethnography, but to other demographers’, anthropologists’, and sociologists’, contributions." -- Philip Kreager, Somerville College, Oxford University"Trinitapoli, with her storytelling, has successfully opened a window for the reader to look into village life in Balaka district in Malawi, and she has at the same time, addressed demographic phenomena of fertility, migration, and mortality in a context of rapidly changing local HIV epidemic. The sensitive and accurate portrayal of village life and its chatter, interwoven with uncertainty in decision-making over partnerships, parenthood, and divorce has given me a fresh perspective on how I will read HIV and demographic statistics in the future." -- Nyovani Madise, Director of Research and Sustainable Development Policies and Head of the Malawi office of the African Institute for Development Policy"An Epidemic of Uncertainty is a multicourse gourmet meal for demographers. It is a book to settle into, chew on, and ruminate over with good friends. Empirically dense, theoretically rich, and analytically smart, the book moves the reader effortlessly between sophisticated quantitative analyses and everyday village and town life in and around Balaka, Malawi. And it brings demography, in all its interdisciplinary and conceptual splendor, to bear on the new subfield, Jenny Trinitapoli, the book's author, wants to usher in: Uncertainty Demography." -- Sanyu A. Mojola * Population and Development Review *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations 1 Introduction: Surveying the Shadows of Uncertainty 2 Ten Years in Balaka: The Excellent and Imperfect Data of Longitudinal Studies 3 Uncertainty Demography 4 The Scope of HIV Uncertainty 5 HIV Uncertainty and the Limits of Testing 6 Relationship Uncertainty and Marriage Instability 7 Call the Ankhoswe 8 Ultimate Uncertainties and the Mortality Landscape 9 Conclusion: Varieties of Uncertainty in Balaka Acknowledgments Appendix: Mortality Trends in Malawi, 1990–2020 Glossary of Chichewa and Technical Terms Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Forever 17 is outstanding, original, impeccably researched, and eminently engaging. With deep ethnographic engagement, humanity, and lucid prose, Bialas brings razor-sharp intellect to demystify the seemingly neutral category of age, debunking the taken-for-granted naturalness of social categories and revealing their complexity, ambiguity, and malleability. This brilliant contribution has enormous theoretical significance and will have a lasting impact on policy debates about the asylum system and beyond. I highly recommend it, especially to anyone open to having their assumptions challenged." -- Cecilia Menjívar, University of California, Los Angeles"This ethnography of young asylum seekers in Germany shows how a process that might seem obvious—defining a person’s age and its meaning—is a wobbly social construction erected by architects with competing visions. Bialas is a perceptive observer of the conflicts, mutual adjustments, and unintended consequences." -- David Scott FitzGerald, coauthor of The Refugee System: A Sociological Approach“This brilliant and incisive ethnographic study unpacks how to determine eligibility fairly under conditions of great demand. Bialas profoundly understands a crunch point at which global demand for opportunity confronts local desires to limit access, and explores all the ambiguities, ambivalences, and indeterminacy that follow. This is a must-read in terms of both the ‘bureaucratic incorporation’ of immigrants and the liminal lives so generated.” -- John Mollenkopf, CUNY Graduate Center

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Forever 17 is outstanding, original, impeccably researched, and eminently engaging. With deep ethnographic engagement, humanity, and lucid prose, Bialas brings razor-sharp intellect to demystify the seemingly neutral category of age, debunking the taken-for-granted naturalness of social categories and revealing their complexity, ambiguity, and malleability. This brilliant contribution has enormous theoretical significance and will have a lasting impact on policy debates about the asylum system and beyond. I highly recommend it, especially to anyone open to having their assumptions challenged." -- Cecilia Menjívar, University of California, Los Angeles"This ethnography of young asylum seekers in Germany shows how a process that might seem obvious—defining a person’s age and its meaning—is a wobbly social construction erected by architects with competing visions. Bialas is a perceptive observer of the conflicts, mutual adjustments, and unintended consequences." -- David Scott FitzGerald, coauthor of The Refugee System: A Sociological Approach“This brilliant and incisive ethnographic study unpacks how to determine eligibility fairly under conditions of great demand. Bialas profoundly understands a crunch point at which global demand for opportunity confronts local desires to limit access, and explores all the ambiguities, ambivalences, and indeterminacy that follow. This is a must-read in terms of both the ‘bureaucratic incorporation’ of immigrants and the liminal lives so generated.” -- John Mollenkopf, CUNY Graduate Center

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Book SynopsisAims to reveal a tug-of-war between the demands of race, class, and gender in which transgressing in one realm often means conforming to expectations in another. This book shows that subcultures navigate these connecting territories by offering them different sexual strategies. It presents a portrait of the structure of young lives.Trade Review"This is a beautifully, pungently written book in which telling ethnographic detail and compelling, often entertaining, narrative accounts are deployed in the service of a theoretically sophisticated, well-argued analysis. It is both provocative and riveting." - Mary Ann Clawson, Wesleyan University"

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Book SynopsisAn analysis of the beneficial effects of community service on the political and moral identity of adolescents. It uses a case study from a predominantly black, urban high school in Washington, D.C., building on the work of Erik Erikson on the social and historical nature of identity development.Table of ContentsPreface Ch. 1: Service for Today's Youth and for the Right Reasons Ch. 2: Social-Historical Identity: A Theoretical Framework for Service Ch. 3: Community Service at St. Francis High School Ch. 4: Getting to Know Homelessness Ch. 5: Forming a Political Habit Ch. 6: A Moral Gyroscope Ch. 7: On Being a Black American Ch. 8: The Continuing Identity Process: After High School Ch. 9: Ten Ideas for Designing and Implementing Community-Service Programs Ch. 10: Identities in the Making References Index

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Book SynopsisAn analysis of the beneficial effects of community service on the political and moral identity of adolescents. It uses a case study from a predominantly black, urban high school in Washington, D.C., building on the work of Erik Erikson on the social and historical nature of identity development.

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Book SynopsisAfter interviews with teenagers, Youniss and Smollar find that, though adolescents seek independence from the parent-child bond, they do not abandon the relationship. A must for anyone interested in adolescent behavior.--Edward Z. Dager, Contemporary Sociology

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection is the first to address the topic of adolescence in Irish history. It brings together established and emerging scholars to examine the experience of Irish young adults from the 'affective revolution' of the early nineteenth century to the emergence of the teenager in the 1960s.Trade Review“As the first academic study to address the topic of adolescence in Irish history, this volume is therefore a welcome addition to a developing field. … it remains a valuable publication and one that marks out a new area of historical enquiry.” (Virginia Crossman, Childhood in the Past, Vol. 10 (1), June, 2017) Table of Contents1. Robert Hyndman's toe: romanticism, schoolboy politics and the affective revolution in late Georgian Belfast; Jonathan Wright 2. 'A sudden and complete revolution in the female': female adolescence and the medical profession in post-Famine Ireland; Ann Daly 3. The 'wild Irish girl' in selected novels of L. T. Meade; Sandra McAvoy 4. 'The most dangerous, reckless, passionate ... period of their lives': the Irish borstal offender, 1906-1921; Conor Reidy 5. An Irish nationalist adolescence: Na Fianna Eireann, 1909-23; Marnie Hay 6. 'Storm and stress': Richard Devane, adolescent psychology and the politics of protective legislation 1922-35; Susannah Riordan 7. 'How will we kill the evening?': 'degeneracy' and 'second generation' male adolescence in independent Ireland; Bryce Evans 8. A powerful antidote? Catholic youth clubs in the sixties; Carole Holohan 9. The emergence of an Irish adolescence: 1920s to 1970s; Mary E. Daly

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Book SynopsisPolicy makers and care providers in the field of youth development have begun to expand this field with the intention of utilizing community and youth assets as an organizing paradigm. Melvin Delgado provides a comprehensive view of this new frontier of youth development.Trade ReviewA practical guide and a theoretical manifesto... An essential reading for school social workers, child welfare workers, teachers and students. Canadian Social Work This is an interesting, well-written...book that adds to the academic discussion surrounding the study "youth." -- Ian Paylor Journal of Social WorkTable of ContentsPart 1. The Practice of Youth Development 1. Setting the Context for the Practice of Youth Development 2. Challenges and Rewards for Youth in the Twenty-first Century 3. Youth Development: Origins and Definitions 4. Youth Development: Approaches and Considerations 5. Youth Development: Principles and Core Elements 6. Youth-development Domains: Families, Peer Groups, Schools, and Community 7. Youth Development: Activities, Settings, Marginalized Youth, and Frameworks 8. Youth Development: Program Evaluation Part 2. New Frontier Settings 9. The Emergence of New Frontier Settings 10. Museums 11. Libraries 12. Cyberspace 13. Aquariums, Zoos, and Outdoor Adventure 14. Activities 15. Examples of Programs 16. The Recruitment and Engagement of Youth in New Frontier Settings Part 3. Where Do We Go from Here? Epilogue Twelve Key Issues and Tensions

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn unblinking look at the government programs, schools and private services that have burgeoned in the last 30 years to help teenagers. -- Ron Pitt Providence JournalTable of Contents1. The Invention of "Troubled Teens": Evolution of an Industry 2. The Struggling-Teens Industry: A Complex Landscape 3. A Legacy of Scandals: Exposure of a Troubled Industry 4. Helping Struggling Teens: What Works? 5. A Blueprint for Reform: Best Practices for the Struggling-Teens Industry Glossary Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIncorporates data from multiple public-housing sites in large U.S. cities to shine light on the symptoms and behaviors of African American youth living in non-HOPE VI public housing.Trade ReviewAdolescents in Public Housing is an important contribution to our understanding of neighborhood effects and, more specifically, the contextual issues for a large number of African American youth living in public housing. This is an important area of study for a vulnerable population of young people and families. -- Elizabeth Anthony, associate professor, School of Social Work, Arizona State University Most public-housing research is deficit based. It looks at ways to decrease crime by destroying dwellings, not by promoting community strength. In contrast, this book purposefully analyzes and incorporates community context to advance a strengths-based approach to intervention with troubled youth. The environmental systems on which it draws are extensive (family, community, and neighborhood), and their influence on both the positive and negative aspects of adolescent mental health are analyzed in depth. The book is original and will contribute to the literature in the field. -- Elizabeth Danto, professor of social work emeritus, Hunter CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword Preface Part I: Theoretical Underpinnings and Methodology 1. Introduction: Context Matters 2. A Framework for Inquiry Into Neighborhood-Institutional Relationships Related to Public Housing and Adolescent Development, with Odis Johnson Jr. 3. An Integrated Model of Adolescent development in Public Housing Neighborhoods, With Kathy Sanders-Phillips and Lisa R. Rawlings Part II: Empirical Section 4. Methodology and Procedures, with Taqi M. Tirmazi and Tarek Zidan 5. Modeling Latent Profiles of Efficacious Beliefs and Attitudes Toward Deviance, with Ajita M. Robinson 6. The Social Ecology of Adolescent Alcohol and Drug Use, with Michael G. Vaughn, Margaret Lombe, and Stephen Tripodi 7. Explaining the Relationship Between Neighborhood Risk and Adolescent Health-Risk Behaviors: A Focus on Adolescent Depressive Symptoms, with Sharon F. Lambert and Crystal L. Barksdale 8. Risk and Protective factors of Depressive Symptoms, with Margaret Lombe and Von E. Nebbitt Part III: Implications and Applications 9. Implications to Practice and Service Use, with Theda Rose and Michael Lindsey 10. A New Direction for Public Housing: The Implications for Adolescent Well-Being, with Carol S. Collard 11. Summary and Conclusion: The Challenges of Public Housing Environments for Youth, with James Herbert Williams, Christopher A. Veeh, and David B. Miller Contributors References Index

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Book SynopsisTanith Carey is a journalist and author who writes on the most pressing challenges facing today's parents. Her writing has featured in The Telegraph, The Times, New York Daily News, and more. She also appears on TV and radio, such as Radio 4's Woman's Hour, ITV's This Morning, and Good Morning Britain. She has two teenage daughters. Dr Angharad Rudkin is a Clinical Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and has worked with children and families for over 15 years. She has an independent therapy practice and teaches Clinical Child Psychology at the University of Southampton. She regularly contributes to national press and appears on TV and radio. She has three children.

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Book SynopsisThe author presents a theory of juvenile delinquency which explains the rise of delinquents from middle class backgrounds. Written by two eminent sociologists, Adolescent Subcultures and Delinquency is the culmination of 20 years of research, and includes new methodological procedures in addition to new data.

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Book SynopsisAfter-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups, and other community-based activities have been thought to play a key role in the lives of adolescents. This book offers recommendations for policy, practice, and research to ensure that programs are well designed to meet young people's developmental needs.

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Book SynopsisIs America the next missionary graveyard? Or is it ripe for spiritual revolution? The statistics seem grim. Every year, the decline of Christianity continues at a rapid pace, especially among young adults. Churches across the country are closing their doors, dying, or are being adopted by nearby larger churches. What is the story church leaders hear? We''ve lost the next generation.But this decline in religious affiliation has not made us less spiritual. Young adults are still asking questions that only faith (or religion) can fully answer. Questions are like seeds buried in the rich, dark soil of our hearts. Nurtured with oxygen and water, they unfold into that which they were meant to become. Absent these conditions, they wither in the dark. Those most resistant to Christianity are those whose questions did not receive oxygen in their faith communities while they were children and teenagers.Not a Hopeless Case is the story of questions, the questions of youn

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Book SynopsisPART I: THE NOVEL: LEROUX'S DISTINCTIVE CHOICES AND THEIR WIDER CONTEXTS The Original Fantôme's Mysteries: An Introduction The Psychoanalytic Veneer in the Novel: Le Fantôme's 'Unconscious Depths' and their Social Foundations Leroux's Sublimations of Politics: From Degeneration and the Suppression of Carnival to the Abjection of Mixed 'Otherness' The Ghost of the Counterfeit: Leroux's Fantôme and the Cultural Work of the Gothic PART II: THE MAJOR ADAPTATIONS: NEO-GOTHIC SUBLIMATIONS OF CHANGING CULTURAL FEARS Universal's Silent Film: The Recast Scapegoat, the Quest for the Widest Audience, and the Management of Labor The 1943 Remake: Recombining Film Styles, Struggling with Psychoanalysis, and Sanitizing World War II The Culture of Adolescence: The Lloyd Webber Musical and the Adaptations that Paved the Way, 1962-1986 Different Phantoms for Different Problems: Some Adaptations Since the Musical The Phantom's Lasting Significance: An Assessment of its Cultural Functions Notes IllustratiTrade Review'The book offers quite a remarkable account of Leroux's Phantom and its various adaptations, an account notable for the skilful combination of textual scholarship, cultural-historical research, subtle critical interpretation and innovative theoretical approach.' - Fred Botting, Keele University 'This book is a well-written, thorough, and engaging assessment that I would recommend as one of particular use to scholars interested in the Gothic novel, adaptation, opera, European history, and psychoanalysis and the novel.' - Joanna Aroutian, Gothic StudiesTable of ContentsPART I: THE NOVEL: LEROUX'S DISTINCTIVE CHOICES AND THEIR WIDER CONTEXTS The Original Fantôme's Mysteries: An Introduction The Psychoanalytic Veneer in the Novel: Le Fantôme's 'Unconscious Depths' and their Social Foundations Leroux's Sublimations of Politics: From Degeneration and the Suppression of Carnival to the Abjection of Mixed 'Otherness' The Ghost of the Counterfeit: Leroux's Fantôme and the Cultural Work of the Gothic PART II: THE MAJOR ADAPTATIONS: NEO-GOTHIC SUBLIMATIONS OF CHANGING CULTURAL FEARS Universal's Silent Film: The Recast Scapegoat, the Quest for the Widest Audience, and the Management of Labor The 1943 Remake: Recombining Film Styles, Struggling with Psychoanalysis, and Sanitizing World War II The Culture of Adolescence: The Lloyd Webber Musical and the Adaptations that Paved the Way, 1962-1986 Different Phantoms for Different Problems: Some Adaptations Since the Musical The Phantom's Lasting Significance: An Assessment of its Cultural Functions Notes Illustrations Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisYoung people growing up in Britain today face a narrowing job market, high housing costs and the prospect of a lifetime of hard work with less reward. The ideas of social responsibility that arose after the Second World War are straining under the demands of a globalised world. Too often public debate divides Britain''s youth into the ''feral rats'' of the London riots and the ''posh boys'' of Eton. Business leaders rail at the entitled and unemployable young people they are asked to give jobs to, politicians complain about apathetic teens and commentators devote endless column inches to the issue of a ''self-obsessed'' generation.Georgia Gould travelled across the UK to uncover the values, aspirations and challenges of young Brits, from job seekers in Bradford and working-class families in Glasgow''s Easterhouse estate, to student protesters at Sussex University and young entrepreneurs in London such as YouTube sensation Jamal Edwards. If we show young peopTrade ReviewAn easy-to-read manifesto that debunks the derogatory tabloid stereotype of useless, narcissistic hoodies, thugs, yobs and chavs . . . an urgent missive from a moment in time . . . Gould offers a vision of Britain that will improve if it embraces the talents of its internet-savvy, multitasking, adaptable young people -- Bidisha * Observer *Anybody who cares about the future of our country, whether an entrepreneur, or involved in civil society or politics, should read this well-written, well-researched book. Indeed, it is a wake-up call for politicians both national and local that should be prescribed reading. Young, wise, passionate, brimming with ideas * Progress *Georgia Gould rails persuasively against the persistent attempts to scapegoat Generation Y for the ills of society -- Owen Jones * New Statesman *No one could read Wasted and maintain a view of Britain's youth as couch potatoes and feral hedonists * Herald *Wasted is the product of detailed research and interviews with an impressive variety of young people and policy wonks * New Statesman *This book merits attention from the old fogeys at the top of the tree. They might find they learn something, once they start listening * Prospect *Gould's approach is conscientious and nuanced . . . her vision of how and where politics and youth, like self-reliance and empathy, might combine is persuasive * Times Literary Supplement *A rousing argument . . . packed full of anecdotes, research and statistics * New Statesman *this is a worthy exploration of Britain's most neglected group of voters -- Andrew Neather * Evening Standard *

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Book SynopsisThe concept of everyday struggles can enliven our understanding of the lives of young people and how social class is made and remade. This book invokes a Bourdieusian spirit to think about the ways young people are pushed and pulled by the normative demands directed at them from an early age, whilst they reflexively understand that allegedly available incentives for making the right' choices and working hard financial and familial security, social status and job satisfaction are a declining prospect. In Youth, Class and Everyday Struggles, the figures of those classed as ''hipsters'' and ''bogans'' are used to analyse how representation works to form a symbolic and moral economy that produces and polices fuzzy class boundaries. Further to this, the practices of young people around DIY cultures are analysed to illustrate struggles to create a satisfying and meaningful existence while negotiating between study, work and creative passions. By thinkiTrade Review‘Struggle’ is one of those over-used words we use to evoke a political ‘feel’ to analysis. In Youth, Class and Everyday Struggles, however, Steven Threadgold takes the idea of struggle seriously, and develops a multi-layered understanding of struggle to provide an exciting and insightful analysis of the challenges young people negotiate in everyday life. Drawing together a thoughtful reading of Bourdieu through theories of affect, risk and reflexivity, Threadgold shows that struggle is fundamental to the constitution of young people’s classed and gendered existence in a world shaped by precarity. Through an examination of hipsters, 'bogans' and DIY music, the book argues not only that there are modalities and temporalities to struggle, but that struggle is creative and mundane, agentic and oppressive. It offers an original and thought-provoking contribution to the field of youth studies.Greg Noble, Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, AustraliaA smart, sensitive and sophisticated analysis of how youth figures in the ways class is produced and contested in conditions of precarity. Centring the concept of struggle, Threadgold incisively addresses the cultural politics and quotidian material realities of new and old class relations through careful attention to the everyday lives of young people. This book is an important contribution to the theorisation of social class today, and a shining example of truly generative scholarship at the intersection of youth transitions and youth cultures research.​Anita Harris, Research Professor, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Faculty of Arts & Education, Deakin University, AustraliaThis is an excellent book that pushes the boundaries of theorising in youth studies to another level. By using the notion of ‘struggle’ and other Bourdieusian concepts, Steve Threadgold is able to create a more nuanced understanding of the contemporary forms of class social reproduction and youth reflexivity. As such this book is a must read for all students and scholars interested in the youth question.Alan France, Professor of Sociology, University of Auckland, New ZealandYouth, Class and Everyday Struggles is a masterfully researched and compellingly written book. Casting an expert eye over an increasingly diverse field, Threadgold has produced a much needed synthesis of key ideas relating to youth cultures and youth transitions that will be of seminal value to both experienced youth researchers and students in search of a critical introduction to youth studies. Andy Bennett, Professor, School of Humanities, Griffith University, AustraliaTable of ContentsPart 1: Youth studies and theoretical foundationsA mix tape for Part 11. Youth, class and everyday strugglesIntroductionYouthClassBourdieu’s ‘struggles’Chapter outline2. Sociological practice: Towards a Bourdieusian understandingIntroduction: Bourdieu’s thinking toolsBourdieu’s conception of class Struggle, illusio and social gravitySocial games and strategy Habitus and fieldCapitalsTrajectoryDoxa and misrecognitionSymbolic violenceCultural arbitraryDistinctionConclusion 3. Bourdieusian prospects and theory in youth studiesIntroductionReflexivity and inequalityThe symbolic, the moral and ‘value’Affect and emotionConclusion Part 2: Classification struggles in the field of representationA mix tape for Part 24. Hipsters and bogans: Distinctive figures of classed anxietiesIntroductionHipsters and bogans in the newsSlippery categoriesWhat is a bogan? What is a hipster?Hipsters and bogans as ‘figures’Classification struggles in the field of representationConclusion5. Hipsters and bogans in the news media and comedy: Two case studiesIntroductionCase study 1Case study 2The affective economy of hipsters and bogansConclusion: Global hipsters and local bogansPart 3: DIY cultures: Struggles about creativity, identity and meaningful workA mix tape for Part 36. A DIY scene: Cultural struggles and meaning makingIntroduction‘DIY’: From punk to sociology to co-optation and beyondEveryday struggles in a DIY music scene in AustraliaConclusion7. A DIY career? Labour and creativity strugglesIntroductionClass, labour and creativityDIY cultures to DIY careersSubcultural capital and illusioChoice, struggle and making do: Strategic poverty?Conclusion8. Coda: Hipsters, bogans and class in the DIY scene 9. Conclusion IntroductionModalities of everyday struggleBourdieu, affect and reflexivityYouth, modalities of struggle and the ‘future’

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Book SynopsisYouth Without Family to Lean On draws together interdisciplinary, global perspectives to provide a comprehensive review of the characteristics, dynamics, and development of youth (aged 1525) who have no family to lean on, either practically or psychologically.In this timely volume, Mozes and Israelashvili bring together leading international experts to present updated knowledge, information on existing interventions, and unanswered questions in relation to youth without family to lean on, in pursuit of fostering these youth's positive development. The various chapters in this book include discussions on different topics such as social support, developing a sense of belonging, parental involvement, and internalized vs. externalized problems; on populations, including homeless youth, residential care-leavers, refugees, asylum-seekers, young women coming from vulnerable families, and school dropouts; and interventions to promote these youths'' mentoring relationships, Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForewordList of ContributorsPart I: Foreword1. Those who we expect to be "self-made adults"Moshe Israelashvili & Shula MozesPart II: Topics2. Sources of social support: Improving outcomes for transition-age foster youthLoring P. Jones3. Finding a Sense of Belonging in the Absence of FamilyKelly-Ann Allen, Emily Berger, Tim Campbell, Margaret U'Ren, & Michelle L. Andrews4. Future orientation: Where there is a will there is a wayRachel Seginer5. Family Support and Young Adult Labor Market AttainmentStacy Bluth & Anna Manzoni6. The transition to adulthood among young people in residential care: A review of the determinants of emancipation processes in SpainAlbert Cabellos Vidal, Josep Lluís Oliver Torelló, Jorge Fernández del Valle, & Joan Amer Fernández7. Mentoring Relationships in the Lives of Care Leavers during the Transition to Adulthood: Contributions and ChallengesYafit Sulimani-Aidan8. Positive Youth Development: A Platform for a University Training ExperienceCarmen Orte, María Valero de Vicente, Margarita Vives Barceló, Belén Pascual Barrio, & Lidia Sánchez-Prieto9. Is there a family to lean on? An intersectional approach to parent involvement in their children’s schooling Audrey Addi-Raccah10. Who will get the most of the intervention program? Lamerhav's explorations of ways to identify youth in need for further supportNatan Gelman & Shula MozesPart III: Populations11. Residential care-leaving in the Global South: A review of the current literatureKwabena Frimpong-Manso12. Need-centered support for young refugees in Germany Hannes Reinke, Tobias Kärner, & Tobias Ringeisen13. The Life of an Island Child – Where are the Parents? Janique. N Charles14. Homeless Youth in India Solomon Ranati & Shreeletha Solomon15. An inclusive and Sustainable future life for Young Asylum-SeekersDi Maggio Ilaria, Santilli Sara, Ginevra Maria Cristina & Nota Laura16. Leaving the Yeshiva High School and Losing Parental Support: The Case of Male Ultra-Orthodox Dropout in IsraelItzhaki-Braun, Yael & Yablon, YacobPart IV: Programs17. Wraparound: An Adaptable, Promising Intervention to Support Isolated Youth or those At-Risk Lucy Rose Lightfoot, Ian de Terte, Kirsty Ross, Richard Etheredge, & Ruth A. Gammon18. Young Latin American women with vulnerable families: A program promoting positive development and opportunitiesDina Krauskopf Roger & Sharling Hernández19. IT communication tools and techniques to support the coming of age: A focus on children and youth in childcare Andrea Rácz, Ernő Bogács, & Marianna Jonkl20. The Foster Youth Success Campaign Dione Milan K. Washington21. Polish youth with limited family support: Externalizing and internalizing problemsKrzysztof Ostaszewski, Agnieszka Pisarska, Krzysztof Bobrowski & Jakub Greń22. From Welfare Dependence to Independence: Orr-Shalom programs for graduates of out-of-home living placements Yair Medalion, Sharon Levin, Yana Kadosh, & Nurit Yirmiya23. The ‘Building My Future’ community-based intervention program to promote youth development in adolescents at psychosocial risk Chloe García-Poole, Sonia Byrne & María José Rodrigo24. "Lamerhav" – an Israeli program for Young Adults without Family Support Shula MozesPart V: Afterword 25. Emerging needs in the context of youth with no family to lean on Shula Mozes & Moshe IsraelashviliIndex

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