Children Around the World
The Future of Our Earth
Published on 27. February 2024
Book
Hardback
260 pages
979-8-88730-581-3 (ISBN)
Description
The fourth book in the UN book series Behavioral Science in the Global Arena is entitled Children Around the World: The Future of Our Earth continues the focus on issues of major international importance. This book is based on these three principles 1) Focus on most important pressing issues, 2) is multidiscipline with authors who are psychologists, social workers, medical doctors, and NGO leaders, and 3) Chapters are co-authored by well-known experts and new professionals or graduate students.
Children were chosen as the focus as over 30% of the people in our world are children. This book looks at major macro trends affecting children as well as interventions that have been used to address problems that children face. Topics that are addressed include the UN Convention on Children, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) that support children, and development issues like pre and post-natal health, family systems, gender roles, and puberty/adolescent issues. Attention is given to major risk factors and challenges such as sex trafficking, child labor, street children, protecting children in congregate care, and violence against children in the home, in institutions, and in the community. This book closes with a look at the most serious future challenges for children including literacy, migration, and mental health issues.
This book is designed for faculty and students, as well as professionals who want to learn more about the type and severity of problems affecting children as well as positive interventions that have been used to address these problems.
Children were chosen as the focus as over 30% of the people in our world are children. This book looks at major macro trends affecting children as well as interventions that have been used to address problems that children face. Topics that are addressed include the UN Convention on Children, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) that support children, and development issues like pre and post-natal health, family systems, gender roles, and puberty/adolescent issues. Attention is given to major risk factors and challenges such as sex trafficking, child labor, street children, protecting children in congregate care, and violence against children in the home, in institutions, and in the community. This book closes with a look at the most serious future challenges for children including literacy, migration, and mental health issues.
This book is designed for faculty and students, as well as professionals who want to learn more about the type and severity of problems affecting children as well as positive interventions that have been used to address these problems.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Emerald Publishing Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
558 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-88730-581-3 (9798887305813)
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Content
Endorsements.
Foreword; Josephine C. H. Tan.
Section I: Background.
Chapter 1. Introduction; Elaine P. Congress.
Chapter 2. All the World's Children; Uwe P. Gielen and Alexandra S. M. Berger.
Chapter 3. Some Practical Guidelines for Successful Child Mental Health Interventions: Exemplified by a Global Intervention Program; Niels Peter Rygaard.
Chapter 4. Global Statements and Organizations; Elaine P. Congress and Julia Larock.
Section II: Developmental Stages.
Chapter 5. Maternal and Perinatal Health and the Impact on Children; Anna Jacobs, Marguerite Thomas, and Gabrielle Casper.
Chapter 6. Family Systems and Trends Around the Globe; Mo Yee Lee, Yao Wang, and Ashura Hughley.
Chapter 7. Contemporary Global Issues Impacting LGBTQ Youth; Sameena Azhar and Michael Buckhout.
Chapter 8. Adolescence and Puberty; Katie Kurnick.
Section III: Risk Factors And Challenges.
Chapter 9. Child Sex Trafficking; Kalyani Gopal and Chelsea Bonosky.
Chapter 10. Unveiling the Psychological Dimensions of Child Labor: Understanding the Impacts and Building Solutions; Elison Silva Santos and Ana Luiza Raggio Colagrossi.
Chapter 11. Poverty, Mental Health and Organizational Intervention for Street Children: Bangladesh Perspective; Shirin Sultana and Jemel P. Aguilar.
Chapter 12. Protecting and Safeguarding Children in Places of Safety Care; Leon Fulcher and Tuhinul Islam.
Chapter 13. Violence Against Children: Consequences for the Affected Children and Prevention Approaches; Anette Kirika and Tobias Hecker.
Section IV: Present And Future Challenges For Children.
Chapter 14. Right to Education for Children and Youth Without Parental Care in India: Challenges and Recommendations; Kiran Modi, Gurneet Kaur Kalra, Leena Prasad, and Pooja Udayan.
Chapter 15. In the Best Interest of the Child: The Compounded Protection Challenges for Children in Forced Migration Contexts; Marciana Popescu, Dana Alonzo, Chloe Sarantopoulos, and Clara Gasso Soler.
Chapter 16. Current Global Mental Health Concerns for Children and Adolescents; Celenia L. DeLapp, Maria C. Alba, and Sandra S. Pimentel.
Biographies.
Foreword; Josephine C. H. Tan.
Section I: Background.
Chapter 1. Introduction; Elaine P. Congress.
Chapter 2. All the World's Children; Uwe P. Gielen and Alexandra S. M. Berger.
Chapter 3. Some Practical Guidelines for Successful Child Mental Health Interventions: Exemplified by a Global Intervention Program; Niels Peter Rygaard.
Chapter 4. Global Statements and Organizations; Elaine P. Congress and Julia Larock.
Section II: Developmental Stages.
Chapter 5. Maternal and Perinatal Health and the Impact on Children; Anna Jacobs, Marguerite Thomas, and Gabrielle Casper.
Chapter 6. Family Systems and Trends Around the Globe; Mo Yee Lee, Yao Wang, and Ashura Hughley.
Chapter 7. Contemporary Global Issues Impacting LGBTQ Youth; Sameena Azhar and Michael Buckhout.
Chapter 8. Adolescence and Puberty; Katie Kurnick.
Section III: Risk Factors And Challenges.
Chapter 9. Child Sex Trafficking; Kalyani Gopal and Chelsea Bonosky.
Chapter 10. Unveiling the Psychological Dimensions of Child Labor: Understanding the Impacts and Building Solutions; Elison Silva Santos and Ana Luiza Raggio Colagrossi.
Chapter 11. Poverty, Mental Health and Organizational Intervention for Street Children: Bangladesh Perspective; Shirin Sultana and Jemel P. Aguilar.
Chapter 12. Protecting and Safeguarding Children in Places of Safety Care; Leon Fulcher and Tuhinul Islam.
Chapter 13. Violence Against Children: Consequences for the Affected Children and Prevention Approaches; Anette Kirika and Tobias Hecker.
Section IV: Present And Future Challenges For Children.
Chapter 14. Right to Education for Children and Youth Without Parental Care in India: Challenges and Recommendations; Kiran Modi, Gurneet Kaur Kalra, Leena Prasad, and Pooja Udayan.
Chapter 15. In the Best Interest of the Child: The Compounded Protection Challenges for Children in Forced Migration Contexts; Marciana Popescu, Dana Alonzo, Chloe Sarantopoulos, and Clara Gasso Soler.
Chapter 16. Current Global Mental Health Concerns for Children and Adolescents; Celenia L. DeLapp, Maria C. Alba, and Sandra S. Pimentel.
Biographies.