The Adolescent Studies Arena provides professionals, researchers, instructors and students with information on the range of Adolescent Studies books produced by Routledge, Psychology Press, and also by Guilford Press.

Subjects covered by this Arena include: Adolescent Development, and other issues surrounding Adolescence.

For our full range of Developmental Psychology books & journals please see our Developmental Psychology Arena.

For our Child & Adolescent Mental Health books & journals please see our Child & Adolescent Mental Health Arena.

Adolescent Studies News:

"Adolescence", Pregnancy and Abortion: Constructing A Threat of Degeneration

Why, despite evidence to the contrary, does the narrative of the negative consequences of teenage pregnancy, abortion, and childbearing persist?

This book argues that the negativity surrounding early reproduction is underpinned by a particular understanding of adolescence.

It traces the invention of ‘adolescence’ and the imaginary wall that the notion constructs between young people and adults.

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