Adolescent Psychology category: 2820 books
Decisive Parenting
Strategies That Work with Teenagers
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Decisive Parenting teaches parents concrete skills for quickly and permanently altering their teenagers' problem behaviors, ranging from argumentativeness and neglecting chores or homework to more serious issues such as shoplifting, underage drinking, and drug use. Michael Hammond provides clear,...
by Michael Gurian
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Raising boys today can be a joyful experience at times but immensely difficult at others. Boys, families, schools, and communities are challenged in the new millennium in ways they have not been before. Technology, medication, food, nutrition, schooling, family, peer groups, and broader social and...
by James K. Luiselli
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Conducting Behavioral Consultation in Educational and Treatment Settings is a practitioner’s guide to implementing consultation with multidisciplinary care-providers for children and adults who have learning and behavioral challenges. The book focuses on the interactive, problem-solving, dispute...
by Leonard Clever
Language: Turkish
Release Date: May 3, 2017
Language: Turkish
Release Date: May 3, 2017
Baştan çıkarıcı Anıların dan insanlık tarihi kadar eski olan baştan çıkarma "uğraşı"nı yeniden gözden geçirmeye teşvik ediyor bizi. Bununla bağlantılı olarak da öpüşme, genç kızlık, nişanlılık, evlilik vs. gibi "bildik" konulara ironik yorumlar getiriyor....
by Madison J. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
The difficult boy stands clearly differentiated in my mind from the backward-minded or irresponsible boy, although there are grounds on which they may become merged. The difficult boy, as I conceive him, is one endowed with normal impulses, usually overstrong, which, because of defects of early guidance,...
Emerging Adulthood
The Winding Road from the Late Teens through the Twenties
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Recently the lives of people from age 18 to 29 have changed so dramatically that a new stage of life has developed, emerging adulthood, that is distinct from both the adolescence that precedes it and the young adulthood that comes in its wake. Rather than marrying and becoming parents in their early...
Alcohol Problems Among Adolescents
Current Directions in Prevention Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Alcohol misuse presents a major risk for health and well-being throughout the life-span, but youth have a special vulnerability. Alcohol is the most widely used drug by adolescents. For some, this may be one or two isolated occasions of youthful experimentation; for others, the use becomes excessive,...
by Connie M. Tang
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Children and Crime offers a multidisciplinary and research-based approach to the study of child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency. Connie M. Tang first examines children as victims of maltreatment, exploring how developmental trauma and societal factors influence children’s behavior and psyche....
by Roger McIntire
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
The long-awaited revised and updated edition of Teenagers and Parents: 12 Steps to a Better Relationship by award-winning author Dr. Roger McIntire adds discussions of teen addictions to computers, cell phones, and social media, while providing the daily advice that present-day parents need.Practical...
Playing at Being Bad
The Hidden Resilience of Troubled Teens
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
“Our most troubled youth are far more resilient and healthy than we are ready to admit. If we take the time to listen very closely to our children speak about their experiences beyond our front doors, we hear an entirely different story about their lives than the one we adults tell.”
Unlike...
Father Hunger
Explorations with Adults and Children
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
James M. Herzog's Father Hunger: Explorations with Adults and Children will quickly take its place both as a landmark contribution to developmental psychology and as an enduring classic in the clinical literature of psychoanalysis. We live in an era when a great many children grow up without a father,...
Unfinished Business
Pressure Points in the Lives of Women
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
“An extraordinary panorama of women’s lives today.”—The New York Times Book Review
In detailed, revealing portraits of women from their teens through their sixties, Maggie Scarf explores the core experiences of women’s lives and discovers what can happen when the days and years scurry...
The Youth Development Handbook
Coming of Age in American Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2003
What are the types of environments in which youth thrive? How do we cultivate such environments to promote optimal development and positive behavior in youth? The Youth Development Handbook: Coming of Age in American Communities provides youth and development practitioners access to current theory...
Digital Generations
Children, Young People, and the New Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Computer games, the Internet, and other new communications media are often seen to pose threats and dangers to young people, but they also provide new opportunities for creativity and self-determination. As we start to look beyond the immediate hopes and fears that new technologies often provoke,...