Adolescent Studies Arena

Social and Personality Development

• By Tina Abbott

Social and Personality Development looks at the processes by which we come to be who we are. It covers a range of topics central to...

Published November 8th 2001 by Routledge.

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Sexual Teens, Sexual Media

Investigating Media's Influence on Adolescent Sexuality

• Edited by Jane D. Brown, Jeanne R. Steele, Kim Walsh-Childers

This collection explores the sexual content of U.S. mass media and its influence in the lives of adolescents. Contributors address the topic of sexuality broadly,...

Published November 1st 2001 by Routledge.

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The Decline of Substance Use in Young Adulthood

Changes in Social Activities, Roles, and Beliefs

• By Jerald G. Bachman, Patrick M. O'Malley, John E. Schulenberg, Lloyd D. Johnston, Alison L. Bryant, Alicia C. Merline

This book is intended as a thoughtful extension to Bachman et al.'s well-received monograph Smoking, Drinking, and Drug Use in Young Adulthood. That volume showed...

Published September 1st 2001 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Conditions for Optimal Development in Adolescence

An Experiential Approach: A Special Issue of Applied Developmental Science

• Edited by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Barbara Schneider

Published June 1st 2001 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Growing Up Fast

Transitions To Early Adulthood of Inner-city Adolescent Mothers

• By Bonnie J. Ross Leadbeater, Niobe Way

In this book the authors examine in depth the lives of inner-city adolescent mothers, going beyond stereotypes to illuminate the diverse pathways to young adulthood...

Published April 1st 2001 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Interwoven Lives

Adolescent Mothers and Their Children

• By Thomas L. Whitman, John G. Borkowski, Deborah A. Keogh, Keri Weed, Keri Weed
• Edited by Keri Weed

Despite a growing body of scholarship on the phenomenon of adolescent parenting, minimal attention has been given to investigating systematic changes in adolescent mothers' and...

Published March 1st 2001 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Arenas of Comfort in Adolescence

A Study of Adjustment in Context

• By Jeylan T. Mortimer, Kathleen T. Call

Adolescence is a time when the social world expands, a time of increasing engagement beyond the family sphere to the school, the peer group, and...

Published January 1st 2001 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Does It Take A Village?

Community Effects on Children, Adolescents, and Families

• Edited by Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter

Does It Take a Village? focuses on the mechanisms that link community characteristics to the functioning of the families and individuals within them--community norms, economic...

Published January 1st 2001 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Adolescent Psychiatry, V. 25

Annals of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry

• Edited by Aaron H. Esman

Volume 25 of The Annals is a timely reprise on developmental, psychotherapeutic, and forensic issues that enter into the evaluation and treatment of adolescents. It...

Published November 1st 2000 by Routledge.

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Promoting Adherence to Medical Treatment in Chronic Childhood Illness

Concepts, Methods, and Interventions

• Edited by Dennis Drotar

Based on a conference that assembled experts in the field of pediatric compliance in chronic illness, this book presents the latest data and conceptual models...

Published August 1st 2000 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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