Adolescent Psychology category: 2820 books
by Richard M. Lerner, Jasna Jovanovic
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
This volume focuses on concepts central to the understanding of the key features of individuality which undergo significant transformations throughout the adolescent period: Personality, self, and ego. While rooted in distinct theoretical traditions, these three concepts, in combination, capture the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
In this volume and its companion Adolescence: The Crises of Adjustment, originally published in 1975, members of the Adolescent Department at the Tavistock Clinic and of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, together with other leading experts on the subject, present a unique study of adolescence.
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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,...
Adolescence and Body Image
From Development to Preventing Dissatisfaction
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Body image is a significant issue for the majority of adolescents. Anxieties relating to body image can be crippling across both genders, their debilitating effects sometimes leading to mental health problems. This important book is the first of its kind to focus specifically on adolescents, providing...
Saying Is Believing
The Necessity of Testimony in Adolescent Spiritual Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
"I have seen and I testify . . ." (John 1:34) The idea of giving one's testimony often evokes summer church camps, evangelistic revivals, mission trips and baptisms. Like an eyewitness called to testify in a courtroom, sharing a testimony of faith is for specific people at special moments....
Playing Hard at Life
A Relational Approach to Treating Multiply Traumatized Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Playing Hard at Life brings contemporary relational thinking to bear on the psychodynamic treatment of a notably difficult group of young patients. Working with New York City teenagers who have survived the wars of inner-city life and Israeli teenage soldiers who have survived the wars of the Middle...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
How do we understand numbers? Do animals and babies have numerical abilities? Why do some people fail to grasp numbers, and how we can improve numerical understanding? Numbers are vital to so many areas of life: in science, economics, sports, education, and many aspects of everyday life from infancy...
De La guerre des boutons à Harry Potter
Un siècle d'évolution de l'espace-temps des adolescents
Language: French
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Quels sont les impacts psychologiques et sociologiques de La Guerre des boutons et d'Harry Potter ?
Relisant le roman de Pergaud (1906) et le best-seller de Rowling (1997), les auteurs montrent l'évolution, depuis un siècle, de l'univers des adolescents, dans leur structuration du temps et...
by Klaus Hurrelmann, Gudrun Quenzel
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
The topic of adolescent development in Europe is one which has received little academic attention in recent years. Developmental Tasks in Adolescence makes an exciting contribution to the field by applying socialisation theory to four major developmental tasks of life: Qualifying, Bonding, Consumption...
The Stressed Years of Their Lives
Helping Your Kid Survive and Thrive During Their College Years
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
From two leading child and adolescent mental health experts comes a guide for the parents of every college and college-bound student who want to know what’s normal mental health and behavior, what’s not, and how to intervene before it’s too late.
“The title says it all...Chock full...
Amerindian Paths
Guiding Dialogues With Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This book comes as part of a broader project the editor is developing aiming critically to articulate some theoretical and methodological issues of cultural psychology with the research and practical work of psychologists with Amerindian peoples. As such, the project of which the present book is part...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Children are born into a world infused with gendered information. An understanding of what it is to be a boy or girl can be critical in forming social relationships, social identities, and learning how to think and behave. Gender and Development is an important new volume that charts how children...
by Prof. Akhilesh Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Developmental psychology, also known as human development, is the scientific study of systematic psychological changes that occur in human beings over the course of their life span.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Despite examples set by successful black men in all walks of life, the truth remains that a disproportionate number of black boys and young men underperform at school, suffer from PTSD, and, too often, find themselves on a pathway to jail. The two-volume The Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents...