Handbook of Child Well-Being

Addressing child well-being from varying perspectives, this handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the field. Readers from a wide scope of disciplines will learn the complexities and implications involved in the scientific pursuit of a child's well-being.

The well-being of children represents a challenge not yet fully confronted and The Handbook of Child Well-being supplies its readers with a thorough overview of the complexities and implications regarding the scientific and practical pursuit of children's well-being. The handbook addresses the concept of well-being through an in-depth analysis of the perspectives and vocabularies of various disciplines such as, philosophy, theology, psychology and sociology. It covers important issues in child well-being and the problems of the general politics of well-being as well as the implementation of interventional programs and measures. In addition the handbook deals with the methods of measuring well-being for a scientifically grounded understanding and also for policy-making. The interdisciplinary set up of the handbook makes it a unique work that offers readers from a vast scope of child-related disciplines and professions a profound overview of the complexities and implications of thescientific and practical pursuit of children's well-being.

Addresses the theme of child well-being from a variety of angles and disciplines Edited by four authorities in the field of child well-being Enables readers from a vast scope of professions and disciplines to have a profound overview of the complexities and implications of the scientific and practical pursuit of children's well-being The only interdisciplinary handbook on Child Well-Being in the field

Auteur
Dr. Asher Ben-Arieh focuses his research on the nature of children's well-being and the factors affecting it, the methodology of social indicators, and the use of indicators of children's well-being in the process of making and implementing public policy regarding children. The theoretical approach guiding his work is based on the concepts of the power of information, childhood as a sociological stage in itself, and children's rights. As a member of the team of researchers from Clemson University, Duke University, and the University of Chicago, Dr. Ben- Arieh is examining the effects of Strong Communities in building and strengthening norms of mutual assistance and of collective responsibility for family support. Also, as the Israeli representative in the EU's COST A/19 working group on child welfare, Dr. Ben-Arieh is both learning from and contributing to the intergenerational perspective framing COST's work, particularly in relation to children's roles in advancing their own status.

Contenu

Volume 1.- Chapter 1: Multifaceted Concept of Child Well-Being; Asher Ben-Arieh, Ferran Casas, Ivar Frønes, and Jill E. Korbin.- Section I: Multiple Perspectives on Child Well-Being.- Chapter 2: History of Children's Well-Being; Bengt Sandin.- Chapter 3: Culture, Context, and Child Well-Being; Thomas S. Weisner.- Chapter 4: Children, Gender, and Issues of Well-Being; Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen and Barrie Thorne.- Chapter 5: Childhood and Intergenerationality: Toward an Intergenerational Perspective on Child Well-Being; Leena Alanen.- Section II: Multiple Approaches to Child Well-Being.- Chapter 6: Child Well-Being: A Philosophical Perspective; Alexander Bagattini.- Chapter 7: Child Well-Being: Children's Rights Perspective; Jaap E. Doek.- Chapter 8: Neuroscience and Child Well-Being; Adeline Jabès and Charles A. Nelson.- Chapter 9: Educational Science and Child Well-Being; Sabine Andresen.- Chapter 10: Geographies of Children's Well-Being: in, of, and for Place; John H. McKendrick.- Chapter 11: Child Healthcare and Child Well-Being: From the Past to the Future; Christopher Greeley and Howard Dubowitz.- Chapter 12: Public Health Aspects of Child Well-Being; Sally Brinkman and Fiona Stanley.- Chapter 13: Well-Being of Children: A Criminologic Perspective; Mimi Ajzenstadt.- Chapter 14: Economics of Child Well-Being; Gabriella Conti and James J. Heckman.- Chapter 15: Social Work and Child Well-Being; Sheila B. Kamerman and Shirley Gatenio-Gabel.- Chapter 16: Children's Well-Being and Politics; Jo Moran-Ellis, Anna Bandt, and Heinz Sünker.- Chapter 17: Mediated Well-Being from the Perspective of Media and Communication Studies; Divina Frau-Meigs.- Chapter 18: Child Well-Being: Anthropological Perspectives; Edward G. J. Stevenson and Carol M. Worthman.- Chapter 19: Social Psychology and Child Well-Being; Ferran Casas, Mònica González, and Dolors Navarro.- Chapter 20: Psychology of Child Well-Being; Arne Holte, Margaret M. Barry, Mona Bekkhus, Anne Inger Helmen Borge, LucyBowes, Ferran Casas, Oddgeir Friborg, Bjørn Grinde, Bruce Headey, Thomas Jozefiak, Ratib Lekhal, Nic Marks, Ruud Muffels, Ragnhild Bang Nes, Espen Røysamb, Jens C. Thimm, Svenn Torgersen, Gisela Trommsdorff, Ruut Veenhoven, Joar Vittersø, Trine Waaktaar, Gert G. Wagner, Catharina Elisabeth Arfwedson Wang, Bente Wold, and Henrik Daae Zachrisson.-

Volume 2.- Section III: Theoretical Approaches to Child Well-Being.- Chapter 21: Understanding the Well-Being of Children and Adolescents Through Homeostatic Theory; Robert A. Cummins.- Chapter 22: Sociology: Societal Structure, Development of Childhood, and the Well-Being of Children; Jens Qvortrup.- Chapter 23: Children's Well-Being and Interpretive Reproduction; William A. Corsaro.- Chapter 24: Capability Approach as a Framework for Research on Children's Well-Being; Susann Fegter and Martina Richter.- Chapter 25: Socialization and Childhood in Sociological Theorizing; Lourdes Gaitán.- Section IV: Children's Activities and Well-Being.- Chapter 26: Schooling and Children's Subjective Well-Being; E. Scott Huebner, Kimberly J. Hills, Xu Jiang, Rachel F. Long, Ryan Kelly, and Michael D. Lyons.- Chapter 27: Children's Work; Michael Bourdillon.- Chapter 28: After-School Activities and Leisure Education; Jaume Trilla, Ana Ayuste, and Ingrid Agud.- Chapter 29: Play and Well-Being in Children's Life; Jan Van Gils.- Chapter 30: Sport, Children, and Well-Being; Yngvar Ommundsen, Knut Løndal, and Sigmund Loland.- Chapter 31: Artistic Activity and Child Well-Being in Early Schooling: Revisiting the Narratives; Jolyn Blank.- Chapter 32: Civic Engagement and Child and Adolescent Well-Being; Daniel Hart, Kyle Matsuba, and Robert Atkins.- Chapter 33: State of the Field: Youth Community Service in the USA; Edward Metz.- Chapter 34: Time Use, Inequality, and Child Well-Being; Sara Raley.- Section V: Arts, Creativity and Child Well-Being.- Chapter 35: Images of Child Well-Being in the Arts; Ellen Handler Spitz.- Chapter 36: Role of Art and Creativity in Child Culture and Socialization; Khin Yee Lo and Koji Matsunobu.- Chapter 37: Imagination, Play, and the Role of Performing Arts in the Well-Being of Children; Philip E. Silvey.- Section VI: Spirituality and Religion.- Chapter 38: Relation of Spiritual Development to Youth Health and Well-Being: Evidence from a Global Study; Peter C. Scales, Amy K. Syvertsen, Peter L. Benson, Eugene C. Roehlkepartain, and Arturo Sesma, Jr..- Chapter 39: Religion and Child Well-Being; George W. Holden and Paul Alan Williamson.- Chapter 40: Religion, Spirituality, and Child Well-Being; Kurt Bangert.- Chapter 41: Islamic Education and Youth Well-Being in Muslim Countries, with a Specific Reference to Algeria; Habib Tiliouine.-

Volume 3.- Section VII: An Ecological Perspective on Child Well-Being.- Chapter 42: Family and Child Well-Being; Cigdem Kagitcibasi.- Chapter 43: Effects of School on the Well-Being of Children and Adolescents; Francisco Juan Garc´a Bacete, Ghislaine Marande Perrin, Barry H. Schneider, and Celine Blanchard.- Chapter 44: Community and Place-Based Understanding of Child Well-Being; Claudia J. Coulton and James C. Spilsbury.- Chapter 45: Children's Social Networks and Well-Being; Debor…