Adolescent Identities: A Collection of Readings

ISBN-13: 9780881634617 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 396 str.

Deborah L. Browning

Opis

Adolescent Identities draws the reader into the inner world of the adolescent to examine the process of identity formation through the various lenses of history, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and psychoanalysis.

Spis treści

Preface. Part I: Identifying Adolescence. Jensen, Coming of Age in a Multicultural World: Globalization and Adolescent Cultural Identity Formation. Hanawalt, Historical Descriptions and Prescriptions for Adolescence. Schlegel, A Cross-Cultural Approach to Adolescence. Part II: Identity and Diversity and the Cultural Milieu. Phinney, Ethnic Identity Exploration in Emerging Adulthood. Savin-Williams, Refusing and Resisting Sexual Identity Labels. Gibbs, Identity and Marginality: Issues in the Treatment of Biracial Adolescents. Schultz, Constructing Failure, Narrating Success: Rethinking the "Problem" of Teen Pregnancy. Part III: Adolescent Identity Formation and the Relational World. Gilligan, Exit-Voice Dilemmas in Adolescent Development. Flum & Lavi-Yudelevitch, Adolescents' Relatedness and Identity Formation: A Narrative Study. Chu, A Relational Perspective on Adolescent Boys' Identity Development. Inhelder & Piaget, Adolescent Thinking. Part IV: Erik Erikson and Psychosocial Identity. Erikson, The Problem of Ego Identity. Erikson, Ego and Actuality. Part V: Adolescent Identity Formation and the Internal World. Horney, Personality Changes in Female Adolescents. Lampl-De Groot, On Adolescence. Blos, Sr., Son and Father. Part VI: Challenges to Identity Coherence and Maintenance. Hyde, From Home to Street: Understanding Young People's Transitions into Homelessness. Noshpitz, Self-Destructiveness in Adolescence. Gordon, A Changing Female Identity. King, Psychodynamic Approaches to Youth Suicide.

O autorze

Deborah L. Browning, Ph.D., is adjunct associate professor in New York University's Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Arts and Science, where she teaches courses on adolescence, developmental psychopathology and psychoanalysis. In addition to her research and publications on adolescence and life-span development, her interest in art and music history has led her to her current project on the psycho-biography of the modern European painter and violinist, Hans Reichel. Dr. Browning maintains a private psychotherapy practice in New York City.