Adolescent Psychology category: 2820 books
Man, Interrupted
Why Young Men are Struggling & What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In 2011, Philip Zimbardo gave a TED Talk called “The Demise of Guys,” which has been viewed by over 1.8 million people. A TED eBook short followed that chronicled how in record numbers men are flaming out academically and failing socially and sexually with women. This new book is an expansion...
Parenting in Transracial Adoption: Real Questions and Real Answers
Real Questions and Real Answers
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Anchored in a qualitative study of parents who have adopted children identified as being of a different race, this book draws from real-life experiences to raise and respond to questions that arise before, during, and after transracial adoption. Its goal: to help adoptive parents (and child welfare...
Child's Play
Sport in Kids' Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Is sport good for kids? When answering this question, both critics and advocates of youth sports tend to fixate on matters of health, whether condemning contact sports for their concussion risk or prescribing athletics as a cure for the childhood obesity epidemic. Child’s Play presents a more nuanced...
Teenage Suicide Notes
An Ethnography of Self-Harm
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
"Picturing myself dying in a way I choose myself seems so comforting, healing and heroic. I'd look at my wrists, watch the blood seeping, and be a spectator in my last act of self-determination. By having lost all my self-respect it seems like the last pride I own, determining the time I die."-Kyra...
THE CONFUSED MIND
The Golden Key To Achieve Lasting Happiness and Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Many of us feel lost, unsure and confused about our own needs and goals. We struggle to meet expectations and gain approval, and we battle with recurrent thoughts of past regrets. Even when we discover our goals, we deal with criticism, challenges and failures along the way. All of this takes a serious...
Adolescence and Delinquency
An Object-Relations Theory Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2007
This book applies modern object relations theory—particularly the concept of intersubjectivity as articulated by Thomas Ogden—to a population for which the 'treatment du jour' is increasingly cognitive-behavioral. Taking his lead from the delinquent adolescents in his practice, Dr. Brodie presents...
BAM! Boys Advocacy and Mentoring
A Leader’s Guide to Facilitating Strengths-Based Groups for Boys - Helping Boys Make Better Contact by Making Better Contact with Them
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Over the past decade, our understanding of the fundamental differences in child development, behavior, and emotional maturity between boys and girls has increased dramatically, and as a result, many gender-specific interventions and support programs have been developed to meet the needs of parents,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1995
from the Foreword:
Possibly the heartless treatment of children, from the practice of infanticide and abandonment through to the neglect, the rigors of swaddling, the purposeful starving, the beatings, the solitary confinement, and so on, was and is only one aspect of the basic aggressiveness...
Family Empowerment Intervention
An Innovative Service for High-Risk Youths and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Use this important intervention to improve your practice with substance-using youths and their families!
This vital book gives you a detailed review of a National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded, long-term clinical trial of the Family Empowerment Intervention (FEI). The subjects are youths who...
Youth, Education, and Marginality
Local and Global Expressions
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Youth, Education, and Marginality: Local and Global Expressions is a close examination of the lives of marginalized young people in schools. Essays by scholars and educators provide international insights grounded in educational and community practice and policy. They cover the range and intersections...
by Travis Breeding
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
Travis has a chance to redeem himself after struggling with years of mental illness that led to him having a negative attitude toward autism. Thinking he could never get a girlfriend having autism he wanted to cure his autism. After help from a friend with a Sonrise program to challenge his beliefs...
Immigration and Acculturation
Mourning, Adaptation, and the Next Generation
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Moving from one country to another causes a radical alteration of one's cultural and geophysical surround. Separation from friends and family, loss of valued possessions, and encountering new ways of living result in mental pain and disorienting anxieties. In Immigration and Acculturation, Salman...
by Ido Kedar
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
What is autism? Is it a long list of behaviors, or is it more? Experts looked at my outside deficits—eye contact impairment, hand flapping and social delay–and concluded that my inside was equally impaired. They assumed I did not understand language, recognize my parents or have a thought more...
Is There Life Without Mother?
Psychoanalysis, Biography, Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In this richly textured study of personal growth and creativity hemmed in by childhood disaster, Shengold compares the differing gifts and differing solutions of extraordinary talents as they seek to negotiate a universal longing to refind the mother without sliding back into neglect, abuse, and despair....