Sex Education: Global Perspectives, Effective Programs, and Socio-Cultural Challenges presents a comprehensive and cohesive overview of sexuality education, including frameworks, challenges, and contexts that should be considered by developers of sexuality education programs. This book is divided into three sections: 1) Global Perspectives on Sexual Issues; 2) Effective Programs; and 3) Research on Sociocultural Challenges. The first section addresses a human rights point of view as a central and sensitive challenge to sex education and refers to the fact that the Western and Eastern countries of the European Union, Latin American, and the world as a whole need access to quality sex education with an impact on love, care, and respect of adolescents and young people. The second part of the book provides an overview of the status of sexual education programs based on Denmark, Ireland, and Mexico. In countries with fully developed comprehensive SE programs, authors show how teenage birth rates tend to be lower compared with countries in which SE is virtually absent. The last part of the book addresses three studies that show the importance of some sociocultural challenges that educators in sexuality may face when working with a vulnerable population such as women and men who have sex with men.

The book "Anxiety in children: Prevention and early intervention" provides a comprehensive literature review of the current state of knowledge of childhood anxiety, including information about its phenomenology, epidemiology, etiology, course and onset, consequences, assessment, treatments and prevention programs. This book explores gender differences in anxiety disorders, comorbity and possible groups that might be at risk for developing an anxiety disorder. It particularly focuses on the group of children with learning disabilities, their social and emotional development and high risk for developing anxiety. This book also includes information of the efficacy of psychosocial interventions in reducing anxiety disorders in school settings. It highlights the importance of prevention and early intervention and offer strategies to work towards them.