Child Adolescent category: 2820 books
When Boys Become Boys
Development, Relationships, and Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Based on a two-year study that followed boys from pre-kindergarten through first grade, When Boys Become Boys offers a new way of thinking about boys’ development. Through focusing on a critical moment of transition in boys’ lives, Judy Y. Chu reveals boys’ early ability to be emotionally perceptive,...
A New Theory of Teenagers
Seven Transformational Strategies to Empower You and Your Teen
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
A guide for families to thrive in the midst of the tumultuous teen years--and the culmination of the author's twenty-five years of experience in both conventional psychology and alternative methods
In her decades of practice and academic research, Dr. Christa Santangelo, a psychologist and...
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...
The Developmental Science of Adolescence
History Through Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The Developmental Science of Adolescence: History Through Autobiography is the most authoritative account of the leading developmental scientists from around the world. Written by the scholars who shaped the history they are recounting, each chapter is an engaging and personal account of the past,...
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...
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...
Flourishing in Emerging Adulthood
Positive Development During the Third Decade of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Flourishing in Emerging Adulthood highlights the third decade of life as a time in which individuals have diverse opportunities for positive development. There is mounting evidence that this time period, at least for a significant majority, is a unique developmental period in which positive development...
Smoking, Drinking, and Drug Use in Young Adulthood
The Impacts of New Freedoms and New Responsibilities
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Why do some young adults substantially change their patterns of smoking, drinking, or illicit drug use after graduating from high school? In this book, the authors show that leaving high school and leaving home create new freedoms that are linked to increases in the use of cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana,...
Who's That Girl? Who's That Boy?
Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Hailed on publication as "an impressive integration of postmodernism and relational psychoanalysis" (James Hansel) and "an intelligent and stimulating account of where the issues of identity, gender, and difference are joined" (Jessica Benjamin), Lynne Layton's Who's That Girl?...
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...
Handbook of Effective Inclusive Schools
Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Over the last decade, the educational context for students with disabilities has significantly changed primarily as a result of mandates contained in NCLB and IDEA. The purpose of this book is to summarize the research literature regarding how students might be provided classrooms and schools that...
by Maurice Cusson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1983
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1983
In this lucid, original, and provocative study, Professor Cusson advances a theory of delinquent behaviour that is both disarming and convincing. Delinquent behaviour, he reminds us, is fairly widespread among young people of all classes and backgrounds – it is not it is not, as some would like...
Human Development from Early Childhood to Early Adulthood
Findings from a 20 Year Longitudinal Study
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Data generated from longitudinal studies allow researchers to better understand how context and experience interact with stable characteristics of the developing person over time. This book summarizes a landmark longitudinal study of 200 children, from the ages of 3 to 23. The Munich Longitudinal...
Sons and Fathers
Challenges to paternal authority
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Father-son relationships can be notoriously difficult. Often fractious, sometimes hostile, and occasionally destructive, the issue of authority is negotiated by fathers and sons in a range of styles. In this fascinating new book, John Crosby describes the filial relationships of 20 historical figures...