Adolescent Psychology category: 2820 books
Dialectical Behavior Therapy for At-Risk Adolescents
A Practitioner's Guide to Treating Challenging Behavior Problems
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Adolescents are more likely than any other age groups to engage in behaviors that contribute to injuries, violence, unintended pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, and reckless alcohol, tobacco, and drug use. At-risk adolescents may also exhibit signs of moodiness, aggression, and even self-injury,...
Stepfather-Stepson Communication
Social Support in Stepfamily Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This book offers a novel analysis of communication in stepfather-stepson relationships and is one of the first to examine the ways stepfathers communicate and to integrate the perspectives of adolescents into research on stepfamily communication. In order to understand the complex dynamics of stepfamilies,...
Psychodynamic Counselling with Children and Young People
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Introducing key psychodynamic theory, concepts and techniques, this text examines the challenges and opportunities of counselling adolescents and children. The book explores a wide variety of settings and contexts, from schools to community projects and mental health services. It is an invaluable guide for counsellors and therapists at all levels.
Parenting Young Athletes
Developing Champions in Sports and Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Parenting Young Athletes tells readers exactly how to enhance the well-being of their children, both on and off the athletic field/court. The latest information on child development, sport psychology, and sports medicine is translated into a practical “how-to” guide that assists parents in assuring...
Studying Minority Adolescents
Conceptual, Methodological, and Theoretical Issues
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
In the burgeoning research literature on adolescents, the relative paucity of work examining ethnic variations in developmental processes is a glaring gap, particularly because approximately one third of American young people now come from an ethnic minority background. A primary factor in this research...
by Alberto Pellai, Barbara Tamborini
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 17, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 17, 2016
Il primo libro interamente dedicato alla preadolescenza, raccontata e indagata da due grandi esperti di psicologia dell’età evolutiva, con il rigore scientifico e il tono divulgativo che li ha resi celebri. Tutto è iniziato con l’ingresso alle scuole medie. Fino a ieri vostro figlio era un bambino...
Failure to Launch
Guiding Clinicians to Successfully Motivate the Long-Dependent Young Adult
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Failure to Launch is a book geared towards helping clinicians work with dependent adult children. The book first attempts to define the problem of failure to launch as well as identify the underlying causes such as entitlement, narcissism, enabling family systems, and undiagnosed mental health problems....
by George McCloskey, Lisa A. Perkins, Bob Van Diviner
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
In Assessment and Intervention for Executive Function Difficulties, McCloskey, Perkins, and Diviner provide a unique blend of theory, research, and practice that offers clinicians an overarching framework for the concept of executive functions (EFs) in educational settings. The conceptual model of...
Youth & Drugs and Mental Health
A Resource for Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2004
When ADHD, depression, anxiety and conduct and learning disorders emerge in childhood, they increase the risk that a young person may later develop substance use problems. In addition, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia tend to appear during adolescence and young adulthood -- about the same time that...
by Peter Jarvis
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Learning is a lifelong process and we are the result of our own learning. But how exactly do we learn to be a person through living? In this book, Peter Jarvis draws together all the aspects of becoming a person into the framework of learning. Considering the ongoing, "nature versus nurture"...
Somatizzazione e adolescenza. Quando le emozioni sono sequestrate nel corpo
Quando le emozioni sono sequestrate nel corpo
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Il libro ha lo scopo di chiarire le ambiguità e le controversie che caratterizzano il costrutto di somatizzazione per proporre un modello utile alla comprensione della patologia. La descrizione di esperienze cliniche e di un progetto di prevenzione rivolto ai giovani che giungono in Pronto Soccorso...
by AA. VV.
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Dell’adolescenza il corpo è protagonista indiscusso: le trasformazioni puberali danno vita a nuove sensazioni, mutano la percezione delle distanze interpersonali, modificano la rappresentazione di sé, cimentano l’identità. Il libro raccoglie alcuni scritti dei maggiori esperti di psicoanalisi...
Taming Aggression in Your Child: How to Avoid Raising Bullies, Delinquents, or Trouble-Makers
How to Avoid Raising Bullies, Delinquents, or Trouble-Makers
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
Taming Aggression in Your Child: How to Avoid Raising Bullies, Delinquents, or Trouble-Makers is a guide to preventing children from developing aggressive behaviors from birth through adolescence. Hostile destructive kids become hostile destructive adults and often create serious problems for society,...
When Boys Become Boys
Development, Relationships, and Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Based on a two-year study that followed boys from pre-kindergarten through first grade, When Boys Become Boys offers a new way of thinking about boys’ development. Through focusing on a critical moment of transition in boys’ lives, Judy Y. Chu reveals boys’ early ability to be emotionally perceptive,...