Handbook of Children’s Risk, Vulnerability and Quality of Life

lt;b>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 America of 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 Ca

- 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.

"The handbook on children's risk, vulnerability, and quality of life presents a detailed empirical compilation from regions including South America, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Oceania, describing and analysing the perspectives that children hold of these concepts. ... the need for state and regional policies that investigate, incorporate, and facilitate the participation of children in their communities to improve their quality of life is reiterated."(Aquiles Pérez Delgado, Applied Research in Quality of Life, Vol. 18 (6), 2023)

“The handbook on children’s risk, vulnerability, and quality of life presents a detailed empirical compilation from regions including South America, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Oceania, describing and analysing the perspectives that children hold of these concepts. … the need for state and regional policies that investigate, incorporate, and facilitate the participation of children in their communities to improve their quality of life is reiterated.”(Aquiles Pérez Delgado, Applied Research in Quality of Life, Vol. 18 (6), 2023)