Adolescent Psychology category: 2820 books
Siblings in Adolescence
Emerging individuals, lasting bonds
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
How do brothers and sisters shape one another? Siblings in Adolescence provides a comprehensive overview of the most up-to-date, international empirical research on the sibling bond during the critical adolescent years. The authors examine how the relationship impacts on adolescent development, as...
Romance and Sex in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood
Risks and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
In this classic editiontop scholars in family research examine the nature and origin of adolescents’ contemporary patterns of sexual and romantic relationships, from the evolutionary roots of these behaviors to policies and programs that represent best practices for addressing these issues in schools...
by Marsha Levy-Warren
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
This is a comprehensive statement about adolescent development, identity formation, and treatment.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2007
Previously considered a rare condition among children and adolescents, recent research on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has indicated an increased prevalence among this age group, insofar as it is now considered one of the most common of all psychiatric illnesses affecting youth. Handbook of Child and Adolescent Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
The Troubled Adolescent
Challenges and Resilience within Family and Multicultural Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
This book is written for students and clinicians who want to learn about adolescent behavioral health and psychosocial development. It focuses on the experiences of culturally diverse adolescents and families including, but not limited to, diversity based on race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual...
Wired Youth
The Social World of Adolescence in the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
The debate on the social impact of information and communication technologies is particularly important for the study of adolescent life, because through their close association with friends and peers, adolescents develop life expectations, school aspirations, world views, and behaviors.
This...
Peer-Impact Diagnosis and Therapy
A Handbook for Successful Practice with Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Adolescents are infamous for their rebellious behavior. Indeed,much of the focus of therapy and clinical intervention with troubled adolescents focuses on their presumed need to rebel against their parents as they define their own identities. Yet psychologist Vivian Center Seltzer argues that approaching...
Les Psy-trucs pour les ados
Les psy-trucs pour les ados
Language: French
Release Date: September 3, 2012
• Comment maintenir la communication avec mon ado? • Téléviseur et ordinateur dans la chambre: pour ou contre? • Le premier amour de mon adolescent: pourquoi est-ce si important? • Pourquoi ces crises et cette insolence chez mon ado? • Le tabac, l'alcool et les drogues: pourquoi sont-ils...
The Adolescent Brain
Changes in learning, decision-making and social relations
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
In recent years there have been tremendous advances in understanding how brain development underlies behavioural changes in adolescence. Based on the latest discoveries in the research field, Eveline A. Crone examines changes in learning, emotions, face processing and social relationships in relation...
Hidden Youth and the Virtual World
The process of social censure and empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Hidden Youth and the Virtual World examines the phenomenon of ‘hidden youth’ or hikikomori, as it is better known in Japan as well as Hong Kong. Exposure to the Internet has allowed these young persons to develop a high level of capability within the virtual world, however these are skills that...
Behind the Mask
Adolescents in Hiding
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
If youre an adolescent dealing with depression, anxiety, substance abuse, or suicidal thoughts, you know all about living behind a mask. In Behind the Mask, author Dennis Rozema helps you let go of the mask, reveal your true self, and become the person you were born to be.
Using personal examples...
Ophelia's Mom
Loving and Letting Go of Your Adolescent Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
MOTHERS TALK BACK!
In 1999 Ophelia Speaks, Sara Shandler’s collection of writings by and about adolescent girls, became a bestseller. Two years later, Nina Shandler, Ed.D., psychologist by profession and Sara’s mother, invited mothers of adolescent girls from all over the country to talk...
by Patricia Cohen, Jacob Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Arising from the Cohens' work on the epidemiology of childhood psychopathology, this book explores the two aspects of motivational structure--ideas and values--that underlie the development of maladaptive functioning and symptoms. The first aspect is a measure of what children admire in their peers;...
Treating the Disruptive Adolescent
Finding the Real Self Behind Oppositional Defiant Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2000
This book offers clinicians an effective method of diagnosing, managing, and treating oppositional, resistant, and disruptive older children and adolescents. Dr. Bustamante understands oppositional states as an expression of the teenager's uncertainty about his own identity and alienation from his...