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The Emerald Handbook of Wellbeing in Higher Education: Global Perspectives on Students, Faculty, Leaders, and Institutions
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Keith D. Walker, Editor; Benjamin Kutsyuruba, Editor – Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024
There has been an increased focus on the need to address the wellbeing and mental health challenges that affect humans across organizational settings, including the higher education sector. This comprehensive Handbook is organized into three sections: student wellbeing, faculty and leader wellbeing, and wellbeing initiatives at institutional or…
Descriptors: Well Being, Higher Education, College Students, College Faculty
Health and Wellbeing in Childhood, 2nd Edition
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Garvis, Susanne, Ed.; Pendergast, Donna, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2017
The period from birth to twelve years is crucial in a child's development and can significantly impact future educational success, resilience and participation in society. "Health and Wellbeing in Childhood, 2nd Edition" provides readers with a comprehensive foundation in health and wellbeing education across key priority areas, covering…
Descriptors: Physical Health, Mental Health, Well Being, Children
Learning for Economic Self-Sufficiency: Constructing Pedagogies of Hope among Low-Income, Low-Literate Adults. Adult Education Special Topics: Theory, Research and Practice in LifeLong Learning
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Alfred, Mary V., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
In a most timely volume addressing many of the connections among current fiscal and employment crises to adult education, Learning for Economic Self-Sufficiency highlights the problems and challenges that low-literate adults encounter in various environments. Moreover, this book presents strategies for addressing the chronic illiteracy among…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Physical Health, Illiteracy, Adult Basic Education
Promoting the Health of Adolescents: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century.
Millstein, Susan G., Ed.; And Others – 1993
The three parts of this book, "The Adolescent, Health, and Society,""Topical Areas for Promoting Health," and "The Future of Adolescent Health Promotion: Next Steps," offer a new framework for examining the status of adolescent health in the United States. Contributing authors have provided the following chapters: (1) "Adolescent Health Promotion:…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Cultural Differences
Promoting Active Lifestyles--A Multidisciplinary Approach.
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Jordan, Deb; And Others – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 1993
Presents a series of articles that address the theme of promoting active lifestyles through education. Some topics are facilities and equipment, how fear plays a part in limiting participation in physical activity, working with disabled as well as aging persons, the use of water activities, and instructor accountability. (GLR)
Descriptors: Aquatic Sports, Behavior Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Equipment
Adolescent Sexuality: Pregnancy, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and Prevention.
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Santelli, John S.; And Others – Journal of School Health, 1992
Special edition discusses adolescent sexuality, focusing on pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and prevention. The articles focus on demographics, risk factors, school-based risk reduction programs, contraception, early intervention, options, school-based prenatal and postpartum care programs, teenage parenting, abortion, HIV and AIDS,…
Descriptors: Abortions, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, Black Students
Migrant Health Issues. Monograph Series.
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National Center for Farmworker Health, Inc., Austin, TX. – 2001
This document contains 10 short monographs on priority issues relevant to the health and well-being of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families. An introduction by Daniel Hawkins discusses the important role of migrant health centers in providing primary and preventive health care services to this disadvantaged and underserved…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Child Health, Child Labor, Cross Cultural Training
Establishing Preventive Services. Healthy Children 2010. Issues in Children's and Families' Lives, Vol. 9. The John & Kelly Hartman Series.
Weissberg, Roger P., Ed.; Gullotta, Thomas P., Ed.; Hampton, Robert L., Ed.; Ryan, Bruce A., Ed.; Adams, Gerald R., Ed. – 1997
Young people are facing greater risks to their current and future health and social development, as shown by involvement of younger and younger children in risk-taking behaviors. This volume emphasizes developmentally and contextually appropriate prevention service delivery models and identifies state-of-the-art, empirically based strategies to…
Descriptors: Child Health, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs, Children
Down Syndrome, Birth to Adulthood: Giving Families an EDGE.
Rynders, John E.; Horrobin, J. Margaret – 1996
This updated book provides a collection of longitudinal perspectives on experiences of individuals with Down Syndrome, from birth to adulthood. The book is an outgrowth of a federally funded early intervention study called Project EDGE (Expanding Developmental Growth through Education). Contents cover the following topics: historical review of…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Adults, Child Development, Child Health