Adolescent Studies Arena

Romance and Sex in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood

Risks and Opportunities

• Edited by Ann C. Crouter, and Alan Booth.

Published October 2005

In this volume, Romance and Sex in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: Risks and Opportunities, top scholars in the field of family research examine the nature and origin of adolescents’ contemporary patterns of sexual and romantic relationships, spanning such diverse topics as the…
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Social Cognition in Adolescence: Its Developmental Significance

A Special Issue of the European Journal of Developmental Psychology

• Edited by Willem Koops, and Harke A. Bosma.

Published January 2005

The special issue aims to develop a greater understanding of the relationship between social cognitive development in adolescence and social behaviour, to discuss the mediating effects of other aspects of development in adolescence such as the parallel emergence of ideas concerning personal…
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Conflict, Contradiction, and Contrarian Elements in Moral Development and Education

• Edited by Larry Nucci.

Published November 2004

The premise of this book is that individuals and societies have an inexorable urge to morally develop by challenging the assumptions of the previous generation in terms of what is right and wrong. The focus is on the nature and functional value of conflicts and challenges to the dominant moral and…
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Identity in Adolescence

The Balance Between Self and Other

• By Jane Kroger.

Published October 2004

Fully updated to include the most recent research and theoretical developments in the field, the third edition of Identity in Adolescence examines the two way interaction of individual and social context in the process of identity formation. Setting the developmental tradition in context, Jane…
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Identity In Adolescence

The balance between self and other

• By Jane Kroger.

Published October 2004

Fully updated to include the most recent research and theoretical developments in the field, the third edition of Identity in Adolescence examines the two way interaction of individual and social context in the process of identity formation. Setting the developmental tradition in context, Jane…
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Adolescent Psychiatry, V. 28

Annals of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry

• Edited by Lois T. Flaherty.

Published October 2004

The ASAP's longstanding advocacy of troubled adolescents gains expression in Volume 28 of Adolescent Psychiatry, which focuses on the juvenile justice system and other dimensions of adolescents and the law. A special section on the forensic and legal aspects of adolescent psychiatry traverses the…
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America's Teenagers--Myths and Realities

Media Images, Schooling, and the Social Costs of Careless Indifference

• By Sharon L. Nichols, and Thomas L. Good.

Published March 2004

The media's presentation suggests that American teenage culture today is the most violent, sexual, and amoral youth culture in history. In this book, Nichols and Good deconstruct the negative images held by large numbers of adults. Recognizing that many teenagers are left by adults to socialize…
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Television and Child Development

• By Judith Van Evra.

Published March 2004

Television continues to play a major role in the lives of most children and adolescents, but current research also reflects the explosive growth in new technologies and their widespread use by young people. Integrating information from communication literature as well as from child development and…
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Coming of Age in U.S. High Schools

Economic, Kinship, Religious, and Political Crosscurrents

• By Annette B. Hemmings.

Published January 2004

Coming of Age in U.S. High Schools: Economic, Kinship, Religious, and Political Crosscurrents takes readers into the lives of urban and suburban adolescents for a close-up look at how they navigate the conflicting discourses and disciplinary practices of American cultural crosscurrents that flow…
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Bullying in American Schools

A Social-Ecological Perspective on Prevention and Intervention

• Edited by Dorothy L. Espelage, and Susan M. Swearer.

Published October 2003

Much of our knowledge about bullying behaviors comes from research conducted over the past several decades in Europe, Australia, and Canada. Until the past decade, research in the United States has lagged behind our European, Australian, and Canadian counterparts. This book seeks to fill this void…
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