Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Developmental - Adolescent

College Student Psychological Adjustment: Theory, Methods, and Statistical Trends introduces the reader to the college adjustment process, highlighting the many challenges facing college students today. The four chapters review recent trends in college attendance and mental and physical health problems of college students, classic and contemporary theories of college student development (such as Chickeringa (TM)s seven vectors of development), and techniques for studying student adjustment, targeting five domains of adjustment most relevant to college students. The final chapter provides...

This brief, clear and well-written book summarizes and integrates the research evidence on the role of social relationships in the experiences and adaptation of students to college life. In three well-organized chapters, Professor Mattanah, a clinical and developmental psychologist, describes the findings from research on college students regarding family and parent relationships, on peer and romantic relationships, and on group interventions that have been designed to help students thrive and have relationships that are more successful. The book insightfully focuses attention on the...

In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Karen Pape tells the story of how some children with early brain damage astounded everyone around them. The brain injury they suffered at or near birth had led to motor problems such as the awkward gait we associate with cerebral palsy. Yet they were able to run, kick a soccer ball, tap dance, and play tennis. This was not supposed to happen. It ran counter to the prevailing belief that the brain is hardwired and fixed. When Dr. Pape first shared her remarkable findings, she ran into fierce opposition from mainstream medicine. Yet this courageous...

Originally published in 1999, this title covers the entire empirical cycle in adolescent health research and education. It describes in depth the development and evaluation of a health education programme designed to enhance everyday health-related behaviours in an adolescent population, and offers comprehensive reviews of developmental theories of adolescence, ethical and theoretical issues in adolescent health education, and the major theories used in adolescent health research. The research presented here led to the development and testing of a new theory - the Theory of Salient...

In Precarious Lives, Shahram Khosravi attempts to reconcile the paradoxes of Iranians' everyday life in the first decade of the twenty-first century. On the one hand, multiple circumstances of precarity give rise to a sense of hopelessness, shared visions of a futureless tomorrow, widespread home(land)lessness, intense individualism, and a growth of incivilities. On the other, daydreaming and hope, as well as civility and solidarity in political protests, street carnivals, and social movements, continue to persist. Young Iranians describe themselves as being stuck in purposelessness...

Boys and their communities are challenged today in ways they have not been before. Dr. Michael Gurian has studied and served children and their families for thirty years. His The Wonder of Boys (1996), is credited with sparking the "boys' movement." In Saving Our Sons, he features the latest research in male emotional intelligence, male motivation development, neurotoxicity and the male brain, and electronics and videogame use. Linking practical solutions with strategic new policies based on twenty years of field work through the Gurian Institute, Dr. Gurian provides a...

Homosexuality. Is it learned, biological...or both?

The answer to this question deeply concerns parents. They want to know how they can
best raise their children. Many would have us believe that nothing can be done to foster the
development of healthy gender identity and heterosexual orientation in children. But the
clinical experience
of Dr. Nicolosi and others, along with a careful look at the professional
literature, indicates otherwise.
In this groundbreaking book, Joseph Nicolosi uncovers the most significant factors that
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The Power of Positive Parenting provides an in-depth description of "Triple P," one of...