Handbook of Children’s Risk, Vulnerability and Quality of Life, 1st ed. 2022 Global Perspectives International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life Series

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.

- 1. Handbook of Children’s Risk, Vulnerability and Quality of Life: An Introduction. - Part I Concepts of Security, Vulnerability and Quality of Life. - 2. Adversity and Child Well-Being: Exploring Recent Research from Different Fields. - 3. The Value of Transnational, Qualitative Comparative Research on Children’s Vulnerability: Methodological and Epistemological Reflections. - 4. Ideological Constructions of Childhood: Considerations for Children’s Subjective Well-Being. - Part II Children’s Perspectives of Violence and Safety. - 5. Well-Being and Safety in Children from Buenos Aires, Argentina. - 6. Children’s Perspectives on Safety: The Case of Greece. - 7. Negotiating Safe Spaces: Children’s Discursive Constructions of Safety and Vulnerability in a Context of Violence. - 8. About the Fear of “the Other”: Contributions to Reflecting on Children’s Opinions of Safety from a Political Standpoint. - 9. A Child Standpoint on Issues of Safety in Public Places in Diverse Urban Localities in Eastern Australia. - Part III Peer Relationships for Children's Feelings of Safety and Quality of Life. - 10. Influence of Vulnerability on Subjective Well-Being and Self-Perceived Safety Among Bangladeshi Children. - 11. Offline and Online Peer Violence: Significance for Child Well-Being in Southeast Europe. - 12. Understanding Bullying Cases in Indonesia. - 13. Cyberbullying as a New Form of Aggression: A Theoretical Review and Implications for Adolescent Well-Being. 14. What Stops a Good Life for Children? An Exploration of Bullying, Poverty and Gender. - 15. Victimization by Peers and Subjective Well-being of Romanian School Children. - Part IV The Quality of Life of Children in Vulnerable Contexts. - 16. The Wellbeing of Children in the Vulnerable Context of Seasonal Migrant Workers in Turkey. - 17. How Do Working Children Feel about Their Lives? And Why It Matters That We Know. - 18. The Children of Palestine: Struggle and Survival Under Occupation. - 19. Understanding Relations between Access to Healthcare, Social Capital, and Health-Related Well-Being of Street-Involved Children in Ghana. - 20. The Well-being and Inclusion of Children from Africa and the Middle East Living in Malta. - 21. Understanding Factors Challenging Children’s Well-Being in Algeria: A Research Synthesis. - Part V Interventions and Practice. - 22. Programs to Promote Children’s Wellbeing: From Data to Practice. - 23. Exploring After-School Activities by Socio-Demographic Characteristics and Subjective Well-Being. - 24. Children’s Standpoint on Vulnerability: Implications for Social Work Practice with Children and Young People. - 25. Family Foundations: Improving our Understanding of What Neglect in Adolescence Means, the Harm it Causes and how to Respond. - 26. Specificities of the Subjective Quality of Life of Children Involved with the Child Welfare System. - 27. A Quality of Life Perspective on Vulnerability: The Case of Young People in Flemish Youth Care.

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

Connects children's quality of life with risks and vulnerability Covers a wide range of geographical and cultural contexts Includes theoretical, empirical, policy and practice-based contributions