Adolescent Psychology category: 2820 books
Community Action Research
Benefits to Community Members and Service Providers
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Discover how to better help those in your community in need of services
Community Action Research comprehensively explores models for community action research, incorporating quantitative and qualitative research to highlight the advantages to community members as well as the volunteers/paraprofessionals...
Summary & Study Guide - The Teenage Brain
A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Adolescents Are Not an Alien Species,
Just a Misunderstood One.
The must-read summary of “The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults,” by Frances E. Jensen, MD.
This book explores how the adolescent brain functions in learning,...
Urban Girls Revisited
Building Strengths
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
Urban Girls, published in 1996, was one of the first volumes to showcase the lives of girls growing up in contexts of urban poverty and sometimes racism and violence. It spoke directly to young women who, often for the first time, were seeing their own stories and those of their friends explained...
The Perversion of Youth
Controversies in the Assessment and Treatment of Juvenile Sex Offenders
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Over the past two decades, concern about adolescent sex offenders has grown at an astonishing pace, garnering heated coverage in the media and providing fodder for television shows like Law & Order. Americans’ reaction to such stories has prompted the unquestioned application to adolescents of harsh...
Caught in the Storm
Knowing and Acting when Teens Need Help
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
For teenagers, puberty is a difficult and troubling time. In the midst of physical and mental changes, they face new challenges and increased expectations. They also struggle to find their own identities. Sometimes, they emerge unscathed; other times, they become wounded and broken. More teens are...
Thriving and Spirituality Among Youth
Research Perspectives and Future Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Thriving and Spirituality Among Youth empirically explores the connections between spirituality and positive youth development through the research of a set of scholars from the wide array of scientific fields including biology, sociology, and theology. This unique handbook shows how to foster positive...
Learning to Live Together
Preventing Hatred and Violence in Child and Adolescent Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2004
With a view to deepening our understanding of sources of hatred and prejudice, this book uses a developmental and evolutionary perspective to explore and explain the process by which our beliefs are conveyed to the youngest members of society. Discussing the psychological obstacles to peaceful relations...
Pause and Reset
A Parent's Guide to Preventing and Overcoming Problems with Gaming
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
Over 90% of children and adolescents play electronic or computerized games, and 25% play for three hours a day or even longer. Although some degree of video game playing is normal, excessive playing can negatively impact schoolwork, kids' social lives, and even their health. Pause and Reset is aimed...
Relationship Pathways
From Adolescence to Young Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
This book is designed to guide students through the latest developments of theory and research on relationships from adolescence to young adulthood. Unique to this text is a focus on relationship change across middle childhood into adolescence and across late adolescence into early adulthood. Experts...
by Dominique Agostini, Maurice Despinoy, Dominique J. Arnoux
Language: French
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Cette monographie réunit des articles déjà publiés dans la revue Adolescence mais aujourd'hui épuisés. Il s'agit de préciser l'héritage kleinien dans une approche actuelle de la psychopathologie à l'adolescence. Cette lecture s'appuie sur une clinique riche qui permet d'éclairer les enjeux psychothérapiques avec l'adolescent.
Les psy-trucs pour les préados de 9 à 12 ans
Les psy-trucs pour les préados de 9 à 12 ans
Language: French
Release Date: October 17, 2011
• Mon enfant est-il accro à la technologie (ordinateur, jeux vidéo, téléphone cellulaire, etc.) ?
• Comment savoir si mon préadolescent est victime d'intimidation ?
• À quel âge devrais-je commencer à lui donner de l'argent de poche ?
• Quels changements importants surviennent au début...
Mon préadolescent est impoli et irrespectueux
Les psy-trucs pour les préados de 9 à 12 ans
Language: French
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Un outil indispensable pour apprendre à mieux gérer le manque de respect et l'impolitesse chez les préadolescents, à leur inculquer des notions de savoir-vivre et à les faire respecter. Suzanne Vallières livre des psy-trucs et des clés de compréhension qui faciliteront la vie des parents et démystifieront certaines notions relatives à l'évolution des enfants.
Best Friends, Worst Enemies
Understanding the Social Lives of Children
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2001
Friends broaden our children’s horizons, share their joys and secrets, and accompany them on their journeys into ever wider worlds. But friends can also gossip and betray, tease and exclude. Children can cause untold suffering, not only for their peers but for parents as well. In this wise and insightful...
The Untouched Key
Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
As in her former books, Alice Miller again focusses on facts. She is as determined as ever to cut through the veil that, for thousands of years now, has been so meticulously woven to shroud the truth. And when she lifts that veil and brushes it aside, the results are astonishing, as is amply demonstrated...