The nature of adolescence
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The nature of adolescence
（Adolescence and society）
Routledge, 2011
4th ed
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Previous ed. : Routledge, 1999
Bibliography: p. 231-254
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The fourth edition of this successful textbook provides an up-to-date introduction to all of the key features of adolescent development. While drawing on the North American literature on adolescence, it highlights European perspectives and also provides unique coverage of the topic by summarising and reviewing what is known about adolescence from a British viewpoint.
Comprehensively updated and rewritten, this edition includes material on new topics such as:
The development of the adolescent brain
Sleep patterns in adolescence
Parenting programmes for parents of teenagers
Health, including sport and exercise, nutrition and obesity, and mental health
Education and schooling
Young people's use of digital technologies
New approaches to resilience and coping.
The book places a particular emphasis on a positive view of adolescence, and the author develops a new theoretical perspective which looks at how young people themselves construct and shape their own developmental pathways. Interview material taken from discussions with adolescents is included throughout the book, and there are sample essay questions and PowerPoint lecture slides available online.
This is an essential text for anyone studying human development at undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as on postgraduate courses for professionals including teachers, social workers, health workers, counsellors, and youth workers.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction. 2. Physical Development. 3. Thinking and Reasoning. 4. The Self and Identity. 5. The Family. 6. Health. 7. Sexual Development. 8. Adolescence and Education. 9. Friends and the Peer Group. 10. Anti-Social Behaviour. 11. Risk, Resilience and Coping in Adolescence.
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