Adolescent Studies Arena

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 and Alicia C. Merline.

Published August 2001

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 that the new freedoms of young adulthood lead to increases in substance use, while the responsibilities of adulthood--marriage,…
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Conditions for Optimal Development in Adolescence

An Experiential Approach: A Special Issue of Applied Developmental Science

• Edited by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and Barbara Schneider.

Published May 2001

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Growing Up Fast

Transitions To Early Adulthood of Inner-city Adolescent Mothers

• By Bonnie J. Ross Leadbeater, and Niobe Way.

Published March 2001

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 taken by these young women. The different ways they respond to becoming a parent reflect a range of abilities, aspirations, and…
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Interwoven Lives

Adolescent Mothers and Their Children

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

Published February 2001

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 their children's psychological functioning over time. This book reports on a longitudinal study conducted to examine the…
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Arenas of Comfort in Adolescence

A Study of Adjustment in Context

• By Jeylan T. Mortimer, and Kathleen T. Call.

Published December 2000

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 the workplace. These contexts may present experiences that differ greatly in their tone and content, either contributing to or hindering satisfaction and…
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Does It Take A Village?

Community Effects on Children, Adolescents, and Families

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

Published December 2000

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 opportunities, reference groups for assessing relative deprivation, and social support networks. Contributors underscore…
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Adolescent Psychiatry, V. 25

Annals of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry

• Edited by Aaron H. Esman.

Published October 2000

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 traverses different explanatory perspectives, offers integrative expositions of several treatment modalities, and wrestles with the…
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Promoting Adherence to Medical Treatment in Chronic Childhood Illness

Concepts, Methods, and Interventions

• Edited by Dennis Drotar.

Published July 2000

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 of adherence to treatment and recommendations for new directions in the field. Interdisciplinary in approach, the contributors represent a…
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Promoting Adolescent Development in Community Context

Challenges To Scholars, Nonprofit Managers, and Higher Education. A Special Issue of applied Developmental Science

• Edited by Shepherd Zeldin, Linda Camino and Wendy Wheeler.

Published July 2000

The scholarships of discovery (empirical research) and application (community-based practice) are alone insufficient in creating the types of valid and relevant information necessary to understand and promote youth development as it occurs in community context. Discovery and application need to be…
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Adolescent Relationships and Drug Use

• By Michelle A. Miller-Day, Janet Alberts, Michael L. Hecht, Melanie R. Trost and Robert L. Krizek.

Published January 2000

Adolescent Relationships and Drug Use explores the communicative and relational features of adolescent drug use. It focuses on peer norms, risk, and protective factors and considers how drugs are offered to adolescents, examining such factors as who makes the offers and how they are resisted, where…
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