Preventing childhood obesity Koplan, Jeffrey; Liverman, Catharyn T; Kraak, Vivica I
2005, 20050113, 2005-01-31, 2005-01-15, 20050101
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Children's health has made tremendous strides over the past century. In general, life expectancy has increased by more than thirty years since 1900 and much of this improvement is due to the ...reduction of infant and early childhood mortality. Given this trajectory toward a healthier childhood, we begin the 21st-century with a shocking development?an epidemic of obesity in children and youth. The increased number of obese children throughout the U.S. during the past 25 years has led policymakers to rank it as one of the most critical public health threats of the 21st-century.
Preventing Childhood Obesity provides a broad-based examination of the nature, extent, and consequences of obesity in U.S. children and youth, including the social, environmental, medical, and dietary factors responsible for its increased prevalence. The book also offers a prevention-oriented action plan that identifies the most promising array of short-term and longer-term interventions, as well as recommendations for the roles and responsibilities of numerous stakeholders in various sectors of society to reduce its future occurrence. Preventing Childhood Obesity explores the underlying causes of this serious health problem and the actions needed to initiate, support, and sustain the societal and lifestyle changes that can reverse the trend among our children and youth.
Haunted Dreams is the first comprehensive study in English devoted to cultural representations of adolescence in Russia since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. Jenny Kaminer situates these ...cultural representations within the broader context of European and Anglo-American scholarship on adolescence and youth, and she explores how Russian writers, dramatists, and filmmakers have repeatedly turned to the adolescent protagonist in exploring the myriad fissures running through post-Soviet society. Through close analysis of prose, drama, television, and film, this book maps how the adolescent hero has become a locus for multiple anxieties throughout the tumultuous years since the end of the Soviet experiment. Kaminer also directly addresses some of the pivotal questions facing scholars of post- Soviet Russia: Have Soviet cultural models been transcended? Or do they continue to dominate? The figure of the adolescent, an especially potent and enduring source of cultural mythology throughout the Soviet years, provides provocative material for exploring these questions. In Haunted Dreams, Kaminer employs a historical approach to reveal how fantasies of adolescence have mutated and remained constant across the Soviet/post-Soviet divide, focusing on violence, temporality, and gender and the body. Some of the works discussed present the possibility of salvaging the model of the heroic adolescent for a new society. Others, by contrast, relegate this figure to the dustbin of history by evoking disgust or horror, or by unmasking the tragic consequences that ensue from the combination of adolescence, violence, and fantasy.
La participación es un concepto que se encuentra vigente en la mayoría de los proyectos de intervención social con jóvenes y adolescentes. Sin embargo, existen tensiones en la práctica diaria de la ...intervención social para poder promover la participación. En este artículo se exploran las tensiones entre la función de control y de empoderamiento desde el punto de vista de participantes de programas de intervención social con características diferentes. Mediante una metodología cualitativa – grupos de discusión y grupos de proceso – se sistematiza la práctica grupal con jóvenes y adolescentes desde una perspectiva crítica que pretende fomentar la reflexión acerca de los objetivos de la práctica y por ende contribuir a generar experiencias que promuevan la participación. Se concluye que el punto de vista de jóvenes y adolescentes puede aportar claves para superar esta dicotomía. Poner el énfasis en un enfoque de derechos que contribuya a procesos de inclusión social, no tiene por qué estar reñido con el fomento de la conciencia crítica y la participación ciudadana en los espacios cotidianos. La consideración y la escucha es el primer paso para el fomento de la participación.
This must-read anthology explores explores the expanding nature of psychoanalytic practice with children and adolescents. It examines theories of development and the technical aspects of ...psychoanalytic interventions and provides detailed accounts of the analytic process. Insightful contributions by psychoanalysts, clinical social workers, and clinical psychologists make this book essential reading for child and adolescent therapists.
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