Adolescent Psychology category: 2820 books
Adolescents and Their Families
Structure, Function, and Parent-Youth Relations
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Talking Teenagers
Information and Inspiration for Parents of Teenagers with Autism or Asperger's Syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007
Ann Boushéy's teenage son Jon was diagnosed with high-functioning autism in kindergarten. Having mastered the day-to-day challenges that parenting a young child with autism or Asperger's Syndrome pose, Talking Teenagers considers questions surrounding parenting across the spectrum during the teenage...
Teenage Citizens
The Political Theories of the Young
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Too young to vote or pay taxes, teenagers are off the radar of political scientists. Yet civic identities form during adolescence and are rooted in experiences as members of families, schools, and community organizations. Flanagan helps us understand how young people come to envisage civic engagement, and how their political identities take form.
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Language: German
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Language: German
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Nichts beflügelt stärker als das Gefühl, vor einer guten Zukunft zu stehen. Fest daran zu glauben, dass Pläne gelingen, Vorsätze eingelöst, Probleme überwunden werden. Und selbst wenn es anders kommt, gerade wenn es anders kommt, haben die Optimisten eine Macht auf ihrer Seite: einen Lebensmut,...
Why Kids Kill
Inside the Minds of School Shooters
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Ten years after the school massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, school shootings are a new and alarming epidemic. While sociologists have attributed the trigger of violence to peer pressure, such as bullying and social isolation, prominent psychologist Peter Langman, argues here that psychological...
by Maria Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Often derided as unscientific and self-indulgent, psychoanalysis has been an invaluable resource for artists, art critics and historians throughout the twentieth century and numerous encounters between art and psychoanalysis have sparked illuminations and connections that would otherwise have remained...
by Daniele Luciani
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 1, 2014
amarAdolescenza è il racconto di Luca, diciottenne introverso e sognatore in cerca di un’identità, di un amore, ma, soprattutto, di un posto dove trovare la felicità. Ma è anche la storia di Francesco, l’amico idealista sempre pronto a rullare una canna, di Veronica, che è appena stata lasciata...
by John Coleman
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
Do you wish your son or daughter would tell you more about what is happening in their life, and that they would open up to you more often? Are you worried about them as they seem to be spending more and more time in their bedroom and on their smart phone? The teenage years can be a time of concern...
The Shy Child
Overcoming and Preventing Shyness from Infancy to Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Two out of every five people in the U.S. regard themselves as "shy." Yet, shyness can be cured, says Dr. Philip Zimbardo, the nation's leading authority on shyness. With co-author Shirley Radl, Dr. Zimbardo presents a program for overcoming and preventing shyness from infancy to adulthood. The book...
Social Cognition in Middle Childhood and Adolescence
Integrating the Personal, Social, and Educational Lives of Young People
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Bridging psychological theory and educational practice, this is an innovative textbook on the emotional and social aspects of young people’s development. Bosacki’s ***Social Cognition in Middle Childhood and Adolescence, First Edition***moves beyond tradition cognitivist representations of how...
College Students in Distress
A Resource Guide for Faculty, Staff, and Campus Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Be prepared to deal with campus situations that involve students in emotional crisis
College Students in Distress provides college personnel with invaluable information on how to identify and refer emotionally troubled students for professional counseling. Dr. Bruce S. Sharkin, a staff psychologist...
by Charles Wibbelsman, Kathy McCoy, Ph.D
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Everything teenagers need to know about nutrition, health, fitness, emotions, and sexuality.
Some teen issues are timeless: self-consciousness and uncertainty over rapidly changing bodies, tumultuous feelings, and dramatically changing lives. Many parents remember vividly their own youthful...
Hearing Voices
Qualitative Inquiry in Early Psychosis
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Qualitative methods are increasingly useful as psychiatry shifts from a focus on symptom reduction to enabling people to live satisfying and meaningful lives. It becomes important to achieve a deeper understanding of the ways in which mental illness interferes with everyday life and the ways in which...
by Dan Lier
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
As parents, if you knew the environment you are providing your child determines their success or their failure, would you want to know how you could make a difference? Would you want to know how to give your kids the edge?According to the Psycho-Success Developmental Theory, we are either providing...