Adolescent Psychology category: 2820 books
by Paula Nicolson
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
What does it mean to be human? This critical text from a well-respected author captures and interrogates the many models which have been developed to explore and explain human behaviour. Informed by sociological, psychological and biological perspectives, the book plots the key stages of the life course from childhood through to older age.
Patterns of Child Abuse
How Dysfunctional Transactions Are Replicated in Individuals, Families, and the Child Welfare System
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Interpret the hidden meaning of family roles to help children at risk!
Because dysfunctional patterns are closed systems that serve a secret purpose, they are almost impossible to change from the outside. Patterns of Child Abuse helps you recognize the purpose behind the patterns and offers...
Flourishing in Emerging Adulthood
Positive Development During the Third Decade of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Flourishing in Emerging Adulthood highlights the third decade of life as a time in which individuals have diverse opportunities for positive development. There is mounting evidence that this time period, at least for a significant majority, is a unique developmental period in which positive development...
Smoking, Drinking, and Drug Use in Young Adulthood
The Impacts of New Freedoms and New Responsibilities
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Why do some young adults substantially change their patterns of smoking, drinking, or illicit drug use after graduating from high school? In this book, the authors show that leaving high school and leaving home create new freedoms that are linked to increases in the use of cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana,...
Who's That Girl? Who's That Boy?
Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Hailed on publication as "an impressive integration of postmodernism and relational psychoanalysis" (James Hansel) and "an intelligent and stimulating account of where the issues of identity, gender, and difference are joined" (Jessica Benjamin), Lynne Layton's Who's That Girl?...
Sons and Fathers
Challenges to paternal authority
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Father-son relationships can be notoriously difficult. Often fractious, sometimes hostile, and occasionally destructive, the issue of authority is negotiated by fathers and sons in a range of styles. In this fascinating new book, John Crosby describes the filial relationships of 20 historical figures...
Becoming Bicultural
Risk, Resilience, and Latino Youth
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Although the United States has always been a nation of immigrants, the recent demographic shifts resulting in burgeoning young Latino and Asian populations have literally changed the face of the nation. This wave of massive immigration has led to a nationwide struggle with the need to become bicultural,...
by Claire Milgrom, Theresa Kestly, Evangeline Munns
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2010
Adolescents are often resistant, hostile, moody, and difficult, but they can also be fascinating, creative, spontaneous, and passionate. How do mental health professionals get past the facade? Play Therapy with Adolescents is the first book to offer a complete variety of play therapy approaches specifically...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Motivation is that which moves us to action. Human motivation is thus a complex issue, as people are moved to action by both their evolved natures and by myriad familial, social and cultural influences. The Oxford Handbook of Human Motivation collects the top theorists and researchers of human motivation...
Antisocial Behavior and Mental Health Problems
Explanatory Factors in Childhood and Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Epidemiological surveys have provided key information about the prevalence and degree of seriousness at different ages of a wide array of problem behaviors such as delinquency, substance use, early sexual involvement, and mental health disorders. Knowledge of the extent of these problems and changes...
by Kenneth Barish
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
An integrative approach for child therapists of all disciplines and at all levels of training and experience.
How to Be a Better Child Therapist is an innovative contribution to the theory and practice of child therapy. Drawing on several decades of experience, Kenneth Barish presents a comprehensive,...
Facilitating Developmental Attachment
The Road to Emotional Recovery and Behavioral Change in Foster and Adopted Children
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
This book shows how to work successfully with emotional and behavioral problems rooted in deficient early attachments. In particular, it addresses the emotional difficulties of many of the foster and adopted children living in our country who are unable to form secure attachments. Traditional interventions,...
Deficiency and Delinquency
An Interpretation of Mental Testing
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
As an interpretation of the results which have been obtained with mental tests, this book lies between the topics of deficiency and delinquency. It is an attempt to discover the significance of objective measurements of ability in connection with both of these fields. The pressing practical problem...
Psychoanalytic Trends in Theory and Practice
The Second Century of the Talking Cure
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Psychoanalytic Trends in Theory and Practice serves as a guide for the novice, and a refresher for the expert, into the history and current status of major psychoanalytic concepts. Each chapter author, reviews the development of a concept over the history of psychoanalysis, includes clinical examples...