The adolescent experience /
The Adolescent Experience places the college student at the very heart of the book. The authors engage in a dialogue with the reader that is warm, caring, and often humorous as they write and share material about this time of life. The authors emphasize the role that development and society play in...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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San Diego, Calif. :
Academic Press,
2000
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| Edition: | 4th ed. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Welcome to the study of adolescence
- Theories and research methods
- Patterns of adolescent development. Intellectual and cognitive development
- Identity development and self-concept
- Gender differences and sex-role development
- Physical growth and sexual development
- Influences on adolescent development. The family
- Peer, leisure, and work experiences
- Education
- Dealing with issues of concern: prevention and treatment. Helping adolescents: intervention and prevention
- Adolescent sexuality: issues for concern
- Substance use and abuse in adolescence
- Crime and delinquency
- Eating disorders
- Depression and suicide in adolescence
- Parting thoughts. Of time and soothsaying.
