Child Adolescent category: 2820 books
Easing Their Stress
Helping Our Girls Thrive in the Age of Pressure
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Today’s teenage girls are in a pressure cooker of expectation. They are told to excel in academics, juggle extracurricular activities, become popular, look great and get into an elite college. As a result they are experiencing debilitating stress that threatens their health and well-being,...
Treating the Unmanageable Adolescent
A Guide to Oppositional Defiant and Conduct Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
The problem of the out-of-control teenager demands immediate and effective attention from clinicians. As American town after town enacts curfew laws for minors and more and more teachers send youths for treatment, therapists are faced with an epidemic for which they often feel ill-prepared. In this...
Development from Adolescence to Early Adulthood
A dynamic systemic approach to transitions and transformations
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Traditionally, the subject of adolescent development has been explored using a stage based approach, often with an emphasis on the potential risks and problems of adolescence.
Taking a different approach, in this book the authors draw upon a wealth of research to examine the period of development...
by Aaron M. White, Ph.D., Scott Swartzwelder
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Groundbreaking developments in adolescent brain research underpin this straightforward guide to understanding—and dealing with—teen behavior.
Adolescence has long been characterized as the “storm and stress” years, and with recent developments in digital communication, it seems today’s...
Why Do They Act That Way? - Revised and Updated
A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
In this national bestseller, acclaimed, award-winning psychologist Dr. David Walsh explains exactly what happens to the human brain on the path from childhood into adolescence and adulthood. Revealing the latest scientific findings in easy-to-understand terms, Dr. Walsh shows why moodiness, quickness...
Treating the Disruptive Adolescent
Finding the Real Self Behind Oppositional Defiant Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2000
This book offers clinicians an effective method of diagnosing, managing, and treating oppositional, resistant, and disruptive older children and adolescents. Dr. Bustamante understands oppositional states as an expression of the teenager's uncertainty about his own identity and alienation from his...
Inventing Ourselves
The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
A tour through the groundbreaking science behind the enigmatic, but crucial, brain developments of adolescence and how those translate into teenage behavior
The brain creates every feeling, emotion, and desire we experience, and stores every one of our memories. And yet, until very recently,...
My Teenage Zombie
Resurrecting the Undead Adolescent in Your Home
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A must-read guide for parents and grandparents who want to practically and successfully help their teenager navigate the ever-lengthening stage of adolescence launching them into society with confidence, vision, and success.
Zombies are not just found in horror movies, sometimes they’re lying...
Coming of Age in U.S. High Schools
Economic, Kinship, Religious, and Political Crosscurrents
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2004
Coming of Age in U.S. High Schools: Economic, Kinship, Religious, and Political Crosscurrents takes readers into the lives of urban and suburban adolescents for a close-up look at how they navigate the conflicting discourses and disciplinary practices of American cultural crosscurrents that flow through...
by John C. Coleman
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
The fourth edition of this successful textbook provides an up-to-date introduction to all of the key features of adolescent development. While drawing on the North American literature on adolescence, it highlights European perspectives and also provides unique coverage of the topic by summarising...
Metacognitive Knowledge
Development, Application, and Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
An important goal in contemporary educational psychology research is adolescent students’ development of higher?order thinking, which includes, among other things, that these students become competent and independent learners and problem solvers. This goal comes forth from the notion of education for...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Romance and Sex in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood
Risks and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
In this classic editiontop scholars in family research examine the nature and origin of adolescents’ contemporary patterns of sexual and romantic relationships, from the evolutionary roots of these behaviors to policies and programs that represent best practices for addressing these issues in schools...
by Patricia Noller, Victor Callan
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Adolescence can be a difficult time for all concerned. Issues such as high youth unemployment, sexual behaviour and drug abuse have made it a matter of great concern for the community at large, whether as parents, politicians or those working with adolescents in education and welfare. In addition,...