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Series
Publication Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xviii, 161 pages) : illustrations
Description
"Societies around the world are concerned about dementia and the other forms of cognitive impairment that affect many older adults. We now know that brain changes typically begin years before people show symptoms, which suggests a window of opportunity to prevent or delay the onset of these conditions. Emerging evidence that the prevalence of dementia is declining in high-income countries offers hope that public health interventions will be effective...
4) Preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalisation: evidence-based policy and practice
Publication Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Description
EPUB and EPDF available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.How can we use evidence to improve deradicalisation and violence prevention outcomes?Based on work developed during the implementation of the cross-European INDEED project, this is an essential reference book for practitioners, researchers and policy makers. It sets out the three pillars of best evidence-based practice - scientific evidence, professional judgement and consideration of clients'...
5) Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalisation: Evidence-Based Policy and Practice
Publication Date
2025
Physical Desc
1 online resource (357 p.)
Description
This essential reference book offers best practice strategies for practitioners, researchers and policy makers working on deradicalisation and preventing violent extremism.
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Publication Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxi, 114 pages) : color illustrations
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"To raise awareness of all members of the community - children, parents and school staff about the harm that bullying causes and how children & young people can be protected, including solutions to the problem of rising incidents of bullying and cyber bullying in connection with the use of social networks. This book will improve strategies and responses to incidences of bullying that will address the causes and effects of bullying and help avoid any...
Publication Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 online resource (382 pages) : illustrations
Description
Annotation "This manual provides health, social care and criminal justice professionals with all the most up-to-date information needed to make a positive contribution to suicide prevention in institutional and community settings."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Author
Publication Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Description
Tanzen in Verbindung mit anderen und kreativen Bewegungen führt zu einer einzigartigen Verknüpfung körperlicher, geistiger und sozialer Aktivitäten und kann bis ins hohe Alter viel Freude bereiten! Es ist zu vermuten, dass die Bewegung zur Musik, weil diese so vielfältig anregend ist, uns vor frühzeitigem Altern und Demenz schützen kann. Tanzen schafft einen direkten Zugang zum Gehirn mit all seiner Komplexität. Das REMIND-Programm...
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Series
Publication Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xi, 106 p.) : ill.
Description
"Suicide is a major cause of death worldwide, and its impact has only been fully appreciated in the past few decades. Historically it was viewed from a religious and moral perspective, but that gave way to broad sociological and biological theories, which sometimes seemed to be mutually exclusive. There is now a wealth of knowledge which has allowed an integration of these perspectives, which have varying importance in different contexts.
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Publication Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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This book looks at the problem of why so many professional and amateur athletes kill themselves. Professional athletes lead what seem to us to be glamorous lives and make large, and sometimes huge, salaries. In schools, the athletes are often the formal and informal leaders, given recognition and honors. News of their suicides shocks us because, to the rest of us, these are the successful members of our society, often looked up to as heroes and role...
Publication Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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The increasing recognition of the role of structural racism affecting vulnerable groups motivated the scholarly work presented in this volume. The authors' rigorous scholarship seeks to help readers identify and understand how structural racism impacts vulnerable groups and how effective practices may dismantle these structural forces. Nine chapters provide unique, comprehensive, and science-based approaches to identify and eliminate structural racism...
Publication Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 electronic resource (143 pages)
Description
A temática da gestão da segurança constitui um campo de desafios e remete, inicialmente, ao aspecto da construção social desse problema das violências e sua problematizarão sociológica. O livro se propõe a realizar uma reflexão sobre o campo do conhecimento da gestão da segurança pública, sob diversas óticas, agregando-se evidências empíricas e teóricas obtidas através da complementação de dados de pesquisas científicas e de um...
Author
Publication Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiv, 253 pages).
Description
"This book examines the control of problem behaviour in prison from a situational crime prevention perspective. Following the success of situational crime prevention in community settings, Richard Wortley argues that the same principles can be used to help reduce the levels of assault, rape, self-harm, drug use, escape and collective violence in our prison systems. This pioneering new study proposes a two-stage model of situational prevention that...
Publication Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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Within the general framework of the European TRIVALENT project, the comparative analysis presented here focuses, alongside policy measures taken at EU level, on counter-terrorism and counter-radicalisation policies implemented by five European countries; namely, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. These case studies with their peculiarities and differences offer insights into the role of long-term and structural factors in defining...





