Tiliouine / Benatuil / Lau Handbook of Children’s Risk, Vulnerability and Quality of Life

Global Perspectives
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-031-01783-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 462 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life

This handbook makes a major contribution to the growing international research and policy interest in children’s experienced well-being or quality of life in childhood, linking it to ongoing research on children’s risk and vulnerability. The editors and contributors adopt the broader concept of ‘risk’ in addition to ‘vulnerability’. Not much work considers the connections between risks that children experience and their quality of life. In examining children’s quality of life, the chapters discuss various issues of risk and vulnerability that may affect their lives and also how the quality of childhood might be enhanced and maintained even in the face of these factors. The chapters discuss experiences of violence and abuse; access to basic services such as housing, health and education; and children’s vulnerability due to broader external factors such as war, conflict, and environmental events. The volume also includes the impacts of new technologies on children and the consequent risks and vulnerabilities they may face, alongside the benefits.

This important volume brings together a diverse range of perspectives from established experts and emerging scholars in these fields of work. It covers a wide range of geographical and cultural contexts, and includes theoretical, empirical, policy and practice-based contributions. This handbook is a natural first point of reference for academics and policy professionals interested in quality of life, well-being, and children's rights.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tiliouine, Habib

Benatuil, Denise

Lau, Maggie K. W.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.
Gwyther Rees, Denise Benatuil, Maggie Lau and Habib Tiliouine

Part 1: Concepts of risk, vulnerability and quality of life.

1. Adversity and child well-being: A review of recent research.
Liliana Fernandes

2. The contribution of comparative qualitative research for understanding vulnerability in childhood.
Tobia Fattore, Susann Fegter, Christine Hunner-Kreisel

3. Ideological constructions of childhood: Considerations for children’s subjective well-being.
Shazly Savahl, Andy Dawes, Tobia Fattore, Sabirah Adams, Stef Slembrouk & Charles Malcolm

4. Participation as a protective resource for social exclusion: a comparison between countries.
Gemma Crous, Ferran Casas; Mònica González-Carrasco

5. “We also have rights, you know?”: Thinking about the implementation of the Rights of the Child in Portugal.
Maria João Leote de Carvalho and Catarina Tomás

Part 2: Children’s perspectives of violence and safety in different countries.

6. An overview of research on safety and subjective well-being.
Gwyther Rees

7. Security and well-being of children living in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
Denise Benatuil

8. Children's perspectives on safety: the case of Greece.
Zoi Nikiforidou and Antoanneta Potsi

9. Violence against children, poverty and quality of life in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Rachel Harvey and Enrique Delamonica

10. Perceptions of safety and subjective well-being of Brazilian children.
Jorge Castellá Sarriera, Lívia Maria Bedin and Miriam Raquel Wachholz Strelh

11. Negotiating safe spaces: Children’s discursive constructions of safety in a context of violence.
Sabirah Adams, Shazly Savahl, Elizabeth Benninger and Kyle Jackson

12. About the fear of the other: contributions to think children´s safety from a philosophical-political overview.
Damián Molgaray

13. Children’s appropriation of place and space: local citizenship, the right to the city and children’s perspectives on urban living.
Manuel Jacinto Sarmento, Gabriela Trevisan

14. A child standpoint on issues of safety in public places in diverse urban localities in Eastern Australia.
Sharon Bessell & Jan Mason

15. Socio-demographic characteristics, personal safety and subjective well-being of Hong Kong Children.
Maggie Lau

Part 3: Peer relationships for children’s feelings of safety and quality of life.

16. Influence of vulnerability in friendship and economic hardship on self-perceived safety and well-being among Bangladeshi children.
Haridhan Goswami, M. Ibrahim Khalil, and Bijoy Krishna Banik

17. Offline and online peer violence: Significance for child well-being in Southeastern Europe.
Lucija Vejmelka,  Linda Rajhvajn Bulat,  Nika Sušac

18. Understanding bullying cases in Indonesia and how to stop bullying.
Ihsana Sabriani Borualogo

19. Cyberbullying as a new form of aggression: a theoretical revision and implications for adolescent well-being.
Jorge Varela & Marc A. Zimmerman

20. What stops a good life for children? Bullying: An exploration of bullying, poverty and gender.
Larissa Pople

21. Victimization by peers and well-being of students: A study in North-Western Romania.
Sergiu Baltatescu

Part 4: The quality of life of children in vulnerable contexts.

22. Children, political geographies and bare life: the case of Egypt.
Heba Ezzat

23. Thinking Subjective Wellbeing of Children in the Vulnerable Context of Seasonal Migrant Workers in Turkey.
Pinar Uyan Semerci & Emre Erdogan

24. Refugee children’s understandings of safety and violence.
Lydia Ntokou & Antoanneta Potsi

25. Children in occupied Palestine: challenges to child well-being in Gaza, East Jerusalem, and the West Bank.
Samah Jabr & Elizabeth Berger

26. Mental health and wellbeing of overseas children and young people living in Malta.
Carmel Cefai & Natalie Haber

27. Psychological and subjective well-being of adolescents and youth affected by conflict in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Cirenia Chavez

28. Understanding factors challenging children’s well being in Algeria.
Habib Tiliouine

Part 5: Interventions and practice.

29. Programs to promote children's wellbeing: from data to practice.
Paulo Dias & Irene Cadime

30. Housing, health, education and the impact of ICT on the welfare of children in Albania.
Robert Gjedia & Migena Kapllanaj

31. Children’s standpoint on vulnerability: Implications for social work practice with children and young people.
Gabriele Drake, Michael Edenborough, Janet Falloon, Toby Fattore, Rhea Felton, Jan Mason, Lise Mogensen

32. Parenting Priorities: Improving our understanding of neglect during adolescence.
Phil Raws

33. Specificities of the subjective quality of life of children in child welfare.
Emmanuelle Toussaint, Philippe Guimard, Agnès Florin

34. A quality of life perspective on vulnerability: The case of adolescents in Flemish youth care.
Chris Swerts, Fien van Wolvelaer, Didier Reynaert, Jessica De Maeyer

35. Risks, vulnerability and children’s quality of life in the digital space.
Gwyther Rees (and colleagues)

36. Summary and discussion.
Gwyther Rees, Denise Benatuil, Maggie Lau and Habib Tiliouine

Über Autor(innen)

Habib Tiliouine has been an active member of both the International Society of Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS) and the International Wellbeing Group (IWGp) since 2003. He is a member of many international journals editorial boards (Journal of Happiness Studies, Applied Research in Quality of Life and the International Journal of Happiness and Development). He has written more than 70 articles and book chapters, and  co-edited many books, such as The State of Social Progress of Islamic Societies:  Social, Economic, Political, and Ideological Challenges (Springer, 2016).

Habib Tiliouine is the head founder of the Laboratory of Educational Processes & Social Context (Labo-PECS) of the University of Oran2, Algeria (in 2001) which conducts survey research for public information and policy purposes. The time series database contains questionnaire responses of more than 18,000 people from different regions of the country, including the southern Sahara areas. Two of these surveys were partly financed by the Algerian Agence Nationale de la Recherche sur la Santé (ANDRS). He has published papers on social development, quality of life and the relationship between subjective well-being, regional Algerian cultures and other factors (health, religiosity, meaning of life and Eudaimonic well-being). Tiliouine has collaborated with UNICEF and national bodies to produce reports analysing the situation of Algerian children and school indicators, and contributed in the World Happiness Report (2017). He is also Principal Investigator for Algeria in the international research project ‘Children’s Worlds’. He supervises Magister and Doctorat research theses on quality of life, psychology and education. Tiliouine received the Distinguished Fellow Award from ISQOLS for his contributions to quality-of-life research in 2015.

Denise Benatuil is the Coordinator of the interview room for abused children of the Tutelar Public Ministry of Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has developed postdoctoral studies at Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora, Argentina at the LOMASCYT project Quality of life of 10-year-old boys and girls living in the province of Buenos Aires Argentina and in the province of West Cape Town, South Africa Directed by Dra Graciela Tonon. She was guest co-editor of the Special Issue Quality of Life in South Americaof Applied Research in Quality of Life.Denise has published articles in different international Journals and chapters in different books and Handbooks. Recent publications include journal articles and several book chapters on quality of life and on undertaking research with children. She was member of the Children Understanding of Well-being International Research Network. She is Professor at the Master Psychology program at Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires.  She has directed doctoral thesis and has taught Psychology for more than ten years in undergraduate and post-graduate programs in Argentina. She was the Director of Undergraduate Psychology Studies at Palermo University in Buenos Aires (2009-2018).

Maggie K.W. Lau is Research Associate Professor in the School of Graduate Studies and Institute of Policy Studies at Lingnan University. Her research interests focus on poverty and social exclusion, child poverty and child well-being, as well as adolescent health. Her publications have appeared in Social Indicators Research, Child Indicators Research, Children and Youth Services Review, Social Policy & Administration, Health Policy, International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, Drug and Alcohol Review, and Nicotine and Tobacco Research. She is the co-editor of Poverty in a Rich Society: The Case of Hong Kong (with David Gordon, The Chinese University Press, Spring 2017), and Managing Social Change and Social Policy in Greater China: Welfare Regimes in Transition (with Ka Ho Mok, Routledge). She has received grant awards from the Research Grants Council and the UK Economic and Social Research Council, as well as the Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office (formerly Central Policy Unit) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government.