Adolescent Psychology category: 2820 books
Born to Be Wild
Why Teens Take Risks, and How We Can Help Keep Them Safe
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
A groundbreaking, research-based guide that sheds new light on why young people make dangerous choices--and offers solutions that work
Texting while driving. Binge-drinking. Unprotected sex. There are plenty of reasons for parents to worry about getting a late-night call about their teen. But...
Adolescent Suicide
Recognition, Treatment, and Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Inform yourself with thorough and accurate knowledge about the incidence of adolescent suicide. Adolescent Suicide serves to correct erroneous conceptions--held by the public and professionals--about the nature of suicidal behavior among the young, thereby promoting the opportunity for more prompt...
by Jill Ehrenreich-May, Sarah M. Kennedy, Jamie A. Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is arguably the most effective psychotherapy model for children and adolescents with emotional disorders (e.g., anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorders, trauma and stress-related disorders, etc.). Emotional disorders in youth frequently overlap or co-occur,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Of the 1.2 billion adolescents in the world today, 90% live in low- and middle-income countries. These adolescents face many challenges in their lives. Enrollment in secondary schools is still low in many parts of the world, with illiteracy rates approaching 30% in the least developed countries. Further,...
Romance and Sex in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood
Risks and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
In this volume, Romance and Sex in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: Risks and Opportunities, top scholars in the field of family research examine the nature and origin of adolescents’ contemporary patterns of sexual and romantic relationships, spanning such diverse topics as the evolutionary...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Unified Protocols for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents
Therapist Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is arguably the most effective psychotherapy model for children and adolescents with emotional disorders (e.g., anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorders, trauma and stress-related disorders, etc.). Emotional disorders in youth frequently overlap or co-occur,...
Developmental Transitions across the Lifespan
Selected works of Leo B. Hendry
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Choice Recommended Read
Leo B. Hendry is one of the foremost developmental psychologists of his generation. His diverse range of interests have included studies on young people’s involvement in competitive sports, investigations into teacher and pupil relations in school, adolescents’ leisure...
Hard Choices
Parenting the Adolescent Child
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2008
AUTHORS MESSAGE TO THE READERS:
If you write a book Ill be sure to read it! These were the words that prompted the writing of this book. They were spoken to me by my youngest daughters endodontist; apparently, she had impressed him with her behavior during the visit, being ever so polite and...
Adolescents' Health
A Developmental Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
This book is devoted to identifying the precursors of adolescents' health problems and risk taking behaviors and the developmental processes that accompany them. It presents data on lay conceptions of health and illness, physical maturity, causes of mortality and morbidity, and patterns of utilization...
In the Middle
The adolescent brain, behaviour and learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the Middle: The adolescent brain, behaviour and learning explores current research into brain development in adolescence and the changes in the brain as humans move into adulthood. This book seeks to use neuroscience to help parents, teachers and adults better understand the changes that occur...
A Genealogy of Puberty Science
Monsters, Abnormals, and Everyone Else
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
A Genealogy of Puberty Science exploresthe modern invention of puberty as a scientific object. Drawing on Foucault’s genealogical analytic, Pinto and Macleod trace the birth of puberty science in the early 1800s and follow its expansion and shifting discursive frameworks over the course of two centuries.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
This book forms a basis and a starting point for a closer dialogue between musicologists, anthropologists and psychologists to achieve a better understanding of the cultural psychology of musical experience. This is done by arranging a meeting point or an arena in which different aspects of psychology...
Adolescent Identity
Evolutionary, Cultural and Developmental Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
As our world becomes increasingly permeable, and as human populations are rapidly converging and transitioning within a global interconnectedness, it is vital that we look to, and learn from, those most adept at the adaptation, creation, and contesting of culture: adolescents. This text is designed...