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Editorial: We Can Do Better Than "Adolescence", Ben Anderson-Nathe, Grant Charles
Editorial: We Can Do Better Than "Adolescence", Ben Anderson-Nathe, Grant Charles
School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations
Editorial. The author discusses the concept of adolescence and its acceptance as a biological imperative, a developmental mandate, and an explanation for young people's behavior. Topics discussed include the shift of the fundamentals of labor from largely agrarian to predominantly industrial forms, the 1904 naming of adolescence as a distinct life stage in the human experience, and adolescence as the default starting point for most adult interactions with youth in the academic and practice literatures.
Editorial: Disconnection And Mattering, Grant Charles, Ben Anderson-Nathe
Editorial: Disconnection And Mattering, Grant Charles, Ben Anderson-Nathe
School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations
Editorial. The article offers information on how the disconnection may affect the lives of children and youth and role of mattering to other people in overcoming the loneliness. Topics discussed include information on the empowering child and youth care; discussions on the intentional relationships and connection between children and youth; and the how engagements with young people reduces the loneliness.
Editorial: Stories Still Untold, Grant Charles, Ben Anderson-Nathe
Editorial: Stories Still Untold, Grant Charles, Ben Anderson-Nathe
School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations
Editorial. The article offers information on the human history is a narrative of the powerful pushing the less powerful down and trying to keep them there. Topics discussed include without sufficient attention to history, to current circumstance, to all the points of intersection that we do not yet see, any single course of action reflects a limited and incomplete narrative; and mentions it is easier to think that there are victims and perpetrators than to admit that some among us are both.