Adolescent Psychology category: 2820 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
In recent years, newspaper articles, television specials, and other media events have focused on the numerous hard decisions faced by today's youth, often pointing to teen pregnancy, drug use, and delinquency as evidence of faulty judgment. Over the past 10 years, many groups - including parents,...
The Developmental Science of Adolescence
History Through Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The Developmental Science of Adolescence: History Through Autobiography is the most authoritative account of the leading developmental scientists from around the world. Written by the scholars who shaped the history they are recounting, each chapter is an engaging and personal account of the past,...
Human Development from Early Childhood to Early Adulthood
Findings from a 20 Year Longitudinal Study
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Data generated from longitudinal studies allow researchers to better understand how context and experience interact with stable characteristics of the developing person over time. This book summarizes a landmark longitudinal study of 200 children, from the ages of 3 to 23. The Munich Longitudinal...
by Joanne Savage
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
The Development of Persistent Criminality addresses one of the most pressing problems of modern criminology: Why do some individuals become chronic, persistent offenders? Because chronic offenders are responsible for the majority of serious crimes committed, understanding which individuals will become...
La grammatica dei conflitti
L'arte maieutica di trasformare le contrarietà in risorse
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Come imparare a ridurre i conflitti inutili e a riconoscere e affrontare quelli necessari.
Tutti i giorni viviamo un numero variabile di conflitti: di alcuni non ci accorgiamo neppure, altri invece lasciano il segno e possono cambiare la vita intera. Comunque tendiamo a sfuggirli, e a considerarli...
Children's Dreams
Understanding the Most Memorable Dreams and Nightmares of Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
When a child talks about a vivid nighttime dream, it can be difficult for adults to know how to respond. Dream researchers Kelly Bulkeley and Patricia Bulkley take readers beyond “it was just a dream” to help children and adults understand why we dream and how dreams can help us unlock our creativity...
Génération Internet
Comment les écrans rendent nos ados immatures et déprimés
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2018
La génération Internet, autrement appelée génération iGen, est arrivée.
La génération Internet, autrement appelée génération iGen, est arrivée.
Nés à partir de 1995, ces jeunes ont grandi avec un téléphone portable au creux de la main, avaient un compte Instagram avant d’entrer...
Muslim American Youth
Understanding Hyphenated Identities through Multiple Methods
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2008
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent “war on terror,” growing up Muslim in the U.S. has become a far more challenging task for young people. They must contend with popular cultural representations of Muslim-men-as-terrorists and Muslim-women-as-oppressed, the suspicious...
Predatory Priests, Silenced Victims
The Sexual Abuse Crisis and the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
The sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church captured headlines and mobilized public outrage in January 2002. But much of the commentary that immediately followed was reductionistic, focusing on single "causes" of clerical abuse such as mandatory celibacy, homosexuality, sexual repressiveness...
Cyberbullying through the New Media
Findings from an international network
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Cyberbullying is one of the darker and more troubling aspects to the growing accessibility of new media technologies. Children in developed countries engage with cyberspace at younger and younger ages, and the use of the internet as a means to bully and harass has been greeted with alarm by educationalists,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Media and the Well-Being of Children and Adolescents brings together many of the field's most important scholars and media professionals to present cutting-edge theory and empirical research on both the benefits and risks to youth development. It examines the role that media play in the every-day...
Mothering without a Home
Attachment Representations and Behaviors of Homeless Mothers and Children
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Homeless women and their children who reside in a transitional housing facility or shelter have experienced multiple traumas and disruptions in their earliest attachments. These multiple, chronic traumas often result in disorganized attachment disorders, which, in turn, affect all future development....
Social Values and Moral Intuitions
The World-Views of "Millennial" Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Millennials have been stereotyped as both "entitled slackers" and "the next greatest generation." This study uses depth interviews to offer a scholarly and balanced account of young adults’ values and world-views. It investigates their views on a wide range of issues, including...
Deception
A Young Person's Life Skill?
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
This book considers the role of deception during adolescence, and explores the factors which underpin adolescents’ choice to deceive, whether these deceptions will be successful, and the ways in which such lies could be detected. While deception is considered to be antisocial or even pathological...