Sexual Orientation in Child and Adolescent Health Care
Sexual Orientation in Child and Adolescent Health Care

Author: Ellen C. Perrin

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-05-08

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 0306476436

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Sexual Orientation in Child and Adolescent Health Care serves as a resource for child health care professionals including pediatricians, family physicians, nurses, pediatric psychologists, child and adolescent psychiatrists, and social workers. The issues of sexuality and sexual orientation now generate great interest among those who treat children. This volume describes the effects of stigmatization on non-heterosexual physicians, patients, and students, and discusses a variety of clinically relevant topics including the development of sexual orientations, children of gay or lesbian parents, young children with gender atypical behavior, and the healthcare needs of gay and lesbian adolescents. The last two chapters describe methods for improvement in medical education and medical care, and provide extensive resources available to professionals and consumers.

The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence
The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence

Author: Kathleen Stassen Berger

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2005-10-19

Total Pages: 670

ISBN-13: 9780716770503

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This text presents theory, research, practical examples and controversial issues in a way that inspires students to think about development, addressing the individual's role in both the community and the wider world. This second edition contains revised chapters on adolescence and new research into brain development.

Style, Society and Person
Style, Society and Person

Author: Christopher Carr

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1995-02-28

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 9780306448430

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Style, Society, and Person integrates the diverse current and past understandings of the causes of style in material culture. It comprehensively surveys the many factors that cause style; reviews theories that address these factors; builds and tests a unifying framework for integrating the theories; and illustrates the framework with detailed analyses of archaeological and ethnographic data ranging from simple to complex societies. Archaeologists, sociocultural anthropologists, and educators will appreciate the unique unifying approach this book takes to developing style theory.

Clothing for Children and Teenagers
Clothing for Children and Teenagers

Author: Norsaadah Zakaria

Publisher: Woodhead Publishing

Published: 2016-06-07

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0081002548

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Clothing for Children and Teenagers: Anthropometry, Sizing and Fit addresses the complexities of developing size specifications for clothing aimed at seven to seventeen year olds. Children and teenagers experience rapid physical growth and alterations in body shape as they develop—changes that pose significant challenges in creating apparel sizing systems. The book begins by introducing the principles of apparel fit and sizing systems. Drawing on the author's own fieldwork, it goes on to discuss methods of conducting anthropometric surveys in children and teenagers, and techniques for analyzing the resulting data in order to produce successful sizing systems. - Introduces the principles of apparel fit and sizing systems, and discusses methods of conducting anthropometric surveys in children and teenagers - Offers systematic and comprehensive coverage of the complexities associated with clothing for children and teenagers - Reviews techniques in analysis and classification of children and teenagers' body shapes and sizes - Covers the development, designation, and validation of an apparel sizing system for children and teenagers