Child Adolescent category: 2820 books
The Romantic Lives of Emerging Adults
Getting from I to We
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
The romantic lives of emerging adults are often baffling and contradictory. While they prize committed and authentic relationships, they appear to be reluctant participants. They prefer to foster ambiguity in their romantic relationships, even as they value honesty and clarity. There is, at once,...
What Works with Teens
A Professional's Guide to Engaging Authentically with Adolescents to Achieve Lasting Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
**Two clinical social workers offer clinicians, educators, coaches, and other youth counselors the first professional book that focuses on engaging authentically with teens in order to create lasting change. Anyone who works with teens should read this book. **
If you work with teens,...
Young People and the Care Experience
Research, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
The care system looks after the most vulnerable young people in society – those who are, for a variety of reasons, unable to live with their parents. Young People and the Care Experience examines what can be done to support young people to remain at home, and if this is not possible, how they can...
Running on Empty
Transcending the Economic Culture's Seduction of Our Youth
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
There is a growing malaise affecting our youth. Running on Empty--Transcending the Economic Culture's Seduction of Our Youth, offers a hopeful and comprehensive paradigm that can transform and reverse the downward trends causing youth's suffering. Gang membership has grown 40% in 3 years, suicide is...
Genetics of Psychological Well-Being
The role of heritability and genetics in positive psychology
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
'In the past decade there has been an explosion of research into the psychology of well-being. While we know that psychological well-being is partly heritable, it is only recently that researchers have started to investigate the specific genetic factors that influence well-being. Such research explores...
Social Values and Moral Intuitions
The World-Views of "Millennial" Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Millennials have been stereotyped as both "entitled slackers" and "the next greatest generation." This study uses depth interviews to offer a scholarly and balanced account of young adults’ values and world-views. It investigates their views on a wide range of issues, including...
A.W.O.L.
the missing teenage brain and the impact on mental health
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2018
A book for parents of teens or preteens, teachers and professionals.
Adolescence is a turbulent time for young people. Not only do they have to cope with the external pressures surrounding them, such as relationships, academic and peers, they also form their adult personalities.
In...
by Ward Clapham
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Foreword by Dr. Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective PeopleMy community, like so many others, struggled with the number of calls for youth disturbances and crime. The reactive approach to solving this problem was not working. Kids saw us as the "hunters." With that mindset,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
The introduction of the psychological construct of selfefficacy is widely acknowledged as one of the most important developments in the history of psychology. Today, it is simply not possible to explain phenomena such as human motivation, learning, selfregulation, and accomplishment without discussing...
Frames
12 fabulous ways of talking with young people
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
A ‘Frame’ is just what it sounds like. It’s something that contains or puts a border around what you are looking at; so you can see more clearly what’s inside, or in this case, what you might want to talk about. Each of the 12 ‘Frames’ in this book, gives you a way to have a meaningful...
Teen Pregnancy and Parenting
Rethinking the Myths and Misperceptions
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Whether glamorised or stigmatised, teenage parenthood is all too often used to stand for a host of social problems, and empirical research results ignored. Identifying core controversies surrounding teen pregnancy and parenting, this book resolves misperceptions using findings from large-scale, longitudinal,...
Adolescence and Adulthood
Transitions and Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
From the teenage years to retirement, each phase of life presents different challenges and new experiences.
Examining the patterns of development throughout the lifespan, the authors provide key insights into how we experience the world, and they examine how established theories have been challenged...
Deception
A Young Person's Life Skill?
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
This book considers the role of deception during adolescence, and explores the factors which underpin adolescents’ choice to deceive, whether these deceptions will be successful, and the ways in which such lies could be detected. While deception is considered to be antisocial or even pathological...
Growing Points in Developmental Science
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2005
Growing Points in Developmental Science is an ISSBD publication based on the millennium symposia papers published in the International Journal of Behavioral Development in 2000. This collection of overview chapters summarises the state of the art and the way forward for this discipline.
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