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In recent decades, the lives of people in their late teens and twenties have changed so dramatically that a new stage of life has developed. In his provocative work, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett has identified the period of emerging adulthood as distinct from both the adolescence that precedes it and the young adulthood that comes in its wake. Arnett's new paradigm has received a surge of scholarly attention due to his book that launched the field, Emerging...
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"The Relationship Code presents a unique theory of genetic influence while highlighting the social processes in the family that are of great importance for adolescents. These ideas, which will refresh our conceptions of psychological development, are based on the analysis of a twelve-year longitudinal study of the influence of both family relationships and genetic factors on adolescent development. The sample consisted of 720 pairs of same-sex adolescent...
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"Seventy deeply troubled teenagers spend weeks, months, even years on a locked ward at a psychiatric hospital. They're not just failing in school, not just using drugs. They're out of control - violent or suicidal, in trouble with the law, unpredictable and dangerous. Everyone fears for their future." "Twenty years later, most of them still struggle. But astonishingly, a handful are thriving. They're off drugs. They're on the right side of the law....
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This book focuses on the crucial role that relationships play in the lives of teenagers. The authors particularly examine the ways that healthy relationships can help teens avoid such common risk behaviors as substance abuse, dating violence, sexual assault, and unsafe sexual practices. Addressing the current lack of effective prevention programs for teens, they present new strategies for encouraging healthy choices. The book first traces differences...
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"This volume presents a balanced view of teen girls that emphasizes their strengths as well as the challenges they must meet. In Beyond Appearance: A New Look at Adolescent Girls, the contributing authors review and assess research on girls from a variety of racial and ethnic as well as socioeconomic backgrounds, searching for commonalities as well as differences."--Jacket
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"This book utilizes theory and research from the developmental psychology of "normal" children and adolescents as well as material on "abnormal" forms of development such as disruptive behavior disorders and juvenile delinquency; situates youthful aggression and violence within the overall framework of children's moral development; integrates quantitative research with carefully considered qualitative research and case studies; discusses the genetic...
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LeTendre studies the educational institutionalization of reaction to the adolescent's emergent will. He examines how different cultural attitudes in the United States and Japan influence educators' opinions of will and the knowledge of self exhibited by middle-school aged children.
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