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Becoming Adult: How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work
ISBN: 9780465015412 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do young people envision their occupational futures? What do teenagers feel about their schooling and after-school work, and how do these experiences affect their passage to adult work? These are the questions that psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and sociologist Barbara Schneider posed in their five-year study of adolescents. The results provide an unprecedented window on society's future through which we can glimpse how today's youth are preparing themselves for the lives they will lead in the decades to come.
How do young people envision their occupational futures? What do teenagers feel about their schooling and after-school work, and how do these experien...
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97,30 zł |
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The Romance of Risk: Why Teenagers Do the Things They Do
ISBN: 9780465070763 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dr. Lynn Ponton has devoted her clinical practice to a particular community--teenagers in trouble. Whether these kids are struggling with peers, experimenting with drugs, stealing cars, or having unprotected sex, they have something in common: they are all involved in unhealthy risk-taking. And their parents are scared. "How did my child get involved in this dangerous situation?" they ask. "And what can I do?"Their fears are justified: today's teens have more opportunities for taking dangerous risks than ever before. But in The Romance of Risk, Dr. Ponton refutes the traditional idea...
Dr. Lynn Ponton has devoted her clinical practice to a particular community--teenagers in trouble. Whether these kids are struggling with peers, exper...
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107,55 zł |
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Assessing Adolescents with the Maci: Using the Millon Adolescent Clinical Invetory
ISBN: 9780471326199 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Assessing Adolescents with the MACI is an interpretive guide for using the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory--the most widely used personality assessment test for adolescents. The first book devoted exclusively to the MACI, this resource will prove a helpful guide for understanding the test, interpreting the results in clinical evaluation, and making appropriate recommendations for treatment and care management.
Unlike other assessment tests developed for adults and adapted for adolescents, the MACI was created to address the unique concerns, pressures, and situations of... Assessing Adolescents with the MACI is an interpretive guide for using the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory--the most widely used personality asse...
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650,50 zł |
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Adolescence
ISBN: 9780471571902 / Angielski / Miękka / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text offers a blend of current research, theory, clinical perspectives, and topics that reflect modern adolescent life. Each chapter features adolescents discussing their opinions, hopes, concerns, and everyday issues. Adopting an ecological-interactional approach, the book provides coverage to the links between different domains of adolescent development: family, peer group, school, and community. The text emphasizes individual, gender, and cultural differences in development, while challenging stereotypical views of adolescents and cultural myths about adolescent development.
This text offers a blend of current research, theory, clinical perspectives, and topics that reflect modern adolescent life. Each chapter features ado...
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737,60 zł |
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The World's Youth: Adolescence in Eight Regions of the Globe
ISBN: 9780521006057 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The life stage of adolescence now occurs in most corners of the world, but it takes different forms in different regions. Scholars from eight regions of the world describe the distinct nature of adolescence, drawing on research to address standard topics regarding this age and show how it has a different effect across societies. As a whole, the book depicts how rapid global change is dramatically altering the experience of the adolescent transition, creating new opportunities and challenges for adolescents, parents, teachers, and professionals.
The life stage of adolescence now occurs in most corners of the world, but it takes different forms in different regions. Scholars from eight regions ...
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186,10 zł |
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New Perspectives on Adolescent Risk Behavior
ISBN: 9780521586078 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this collection, leading experts on adolescent risk behavior present the most recent ideas and findings about the variety of behaviors that can compromise adolescent development. Among the topics the contributors explore are drug use, risky driving, early sexual activity, depression, and school disengagement. In particular, the volume emphasizes new perspectives on development and on person-centered analysis.
In this collection, leading experts on adolescent risk behavior present the most recent ideas and findings about the variety of behaviors that can com...
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306,40 zł |
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Self-Efficacy in Changing Societies
ISBN: 9780521586962 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adolescents' beliefs in their personal control affects their psychological well-being and the direction of their lives. Self-Efficacy in Changing Societies analyzes the diverse ways in which beliefs of personal efficacy operate within a network of sociocultural influences to shape life paths. The chapters, written by internationally known experts, cover such concepts as infancy and personal agency, competency through the life span, the role of family, and cross-cultural factors.
Adolescents' beliefs in their personal control affects their psychological well-being and the direction of their lives. Self-Efficacy in Changing Soci...
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218,43 zł |
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The Development of Romantic Relationships in Adolescence
ISBN: 9780521591560 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Numerous volumes exist on adult romantic relationships and on adolescent sexuality, but this is the first volume to examine adolescent romantic relationships. A group of eminent investigators met to discuss the topic and were charged with the task of writing about their conceptualization of these relationships and of romantic experiences in adolescence. The papers cover the full range of aspects of romantic relationships, and examine general processes and individual differences within the general context of adolescent development. Each paper contains numerous provocative ideas that are...
Numerous volumes exist on adult romantic relationships and on adolescent sexuality, but this is the first volume to examine adolescent romantic relati...
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416,73 zł |
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Roots of Civic Identity: International Perspectives on Community Service and Activism in Youth
ISBN: 9780521622837 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together an international collection of essays that describes the state of community participation among the world's youth. Authors from around the globe use fresh empirical data to present portraits of contemporary youths constructing their civic identities through such means as community service and political activism. The image of "Generation X" as socially disconnected and apathetic is contradicted by young people's efforts to comprehend the complexities of society and to work toward the realization of social-moral ideals. The findings in this volume contribute to a...
This book brings together an international collection of essays that describes the state of community participation among the world's youth. Authors f...
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273,78 zł |
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Adolescent Sleep Patterns: Biological, Social, and Psychological Influences
ISBN: 9780521642910 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adolescents are among the most sleep deprived populations in our society. This book explores the genesis and development of sleep patterns at this phase of the life span. It examines biological and cultural factors that influence sleep patterns, presents risks associated with lack of sleep, and reveals the effects of environmental factors such as work and school schedules on sleep. This study will appeal to psychologists and sociologists of adolescence who have not yet considered the important role of sleep in the lives of our youth.
Adolescents are among the most sleep deprived populations in our society. This book explores the genesis and development of sleep patterns at this pha...
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485,91 zł |
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Aggression and Violence in Adolescence
ISBN: 9780521688918 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using confidential self-report surveys and official crime statistics, this book describes variations in aggression and violence during adolescence over time and by grade, gender, and race. Early clues present in childhood to later serious violence in adolescence are identified in longitudinal research studies. Current personality and situational influences that either increase or decrease risk for aggression or violence are reviewed. Aggression and violence in adolescent dating relationships is explained in relation to normal development and subject to both variation in partner and...
Using confidential self-report surveys and official crime statistics, this book describes variations in aggression and violence during adolescence ove...
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130,77 zł |
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Families Count: Effects on Child and Adolescent Development
ISBN: 9780521847537 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is concerned with the question of how families matter in young people's development - a question of obvious interest and importance to a wide range of readers, which has serious policy implication. A series of key current topics concerning families are examined by the top international scholars in the field, including the key risks affecting children, individual differences in their resilience, links between families and peers, the connections between parental work and children's family lives, the impact of childcare, divorce, and parental separation, grandparents, and new family...
This book is concerned with the question of how families matter in young people's development - a question of obvious interest and importance to a wid...
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278,39 zł |
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Aggression and Violence in Adolescence
ISBN: 9780521868815 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using confidential self-report surveys and official crime statistics, this book describes variations in aggression and violence during adolescence over time and by grade, gender, and race. Early clues present in childhood to later serious violence in adolescence are identified in longitudinal research studies. Current personality and situational influences that either increase or decrease risk for aggression or violence are reviewed. Aggression and violence in adolescent dating relationships is explained in relation to normal development and subject to both variation in partner and...
Using confidential self-report surveys and official crime statistics, this book describes variations in aggression and violence during adolescence ove...
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232,27 zł |
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The Changing Adolescent Experience: Societal Trends and the Transition to Adulthood
ISBN: 9780521891998 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How will the experience of adolescence be affected by key societal phenomena--demographic trends, information technology, environmental degredation, and advances in medicine and genetics? This important volume identifies such ominous changes as unstable job markets and widening income gaps, while at the same time observing opportunities created by information technology and innovations in health service delivery. Knowledgeable projections are vital in shaping research agendas and for alerting educators, policy makers, and practitioners to new issues in adolescent development.
How will the experience of adolescence be affected by key societal phenomena--demographic trends, information technology, environmental degredation, a...
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187,46 zł |
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Youth Violence Prevention: A Guide for Concerned Parents and Professionals
ISBN: 9780595208197 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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61,30 zł |
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Reality Therapy--A Workable Approach for Adolescents
ISBN: 9780595351145 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Reality Therapy--A Workable Approach for Adolescents" was written in an effort to give direction to those who are working with adolescents who are delinquent, runaways, truant, experiencing problems with teenage pregnancy, drug addiction, and other emotional issues. Reality therapy may be used as a means 1) to help them face reality and reject irresponsible behavior and 2) to develop a positive outlook of the future even though the portrait that has been painted by society appears futile. Adolescents must realize that they have choices in every situation and that they must be willing to...
"Reality Therapy--A Workable Approach for Adolescents" was written in an effort to give direction to those who are working with adolescents who are de...
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38,24 zł |
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The Relationship Code: Deciphering Genetic and Social Influences on Adolescent Development
ISBN: 9780674011267 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Relationship Code is the report of a longitudinal study, conducted over a ten-year period, of the influence of family relationships and genetic factors on competence and psychopathology in adolescent development. The sample for this landmark study included 720 pairs of same-sex adolescent siblings--including twins, half siblings, and genetically unrelated siblings--and their parents. Using a clear expressive style, David Reiss and his coinvestigators identify specific mechanisms that link genetic factors and the social environment in psychological development. They propose... The Relationship Code is the report of a longitudinal study, conducted over a ten-year period, of the influence of family relationships and ... |
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230,33 zł |
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Working with Adolescents: Constructing Identity
ISBN: 9780750706438 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work examines the way in which personality and identity of the pupil is shaped by his or her experiences in school. The text considers the way in which teachers in secondary schools are working, and to some extent living, with adolescent pupils for the majority of time in their weekday waking lives. The book examines: to what extent teachers provide both positive and negative role models for pupils to follow; the factors restricting the ability of teachers to teach effectively; and conversely, what factors work to their advantage.
This work examines the way in which personality and identity of the pupil is shaped by his or her experiences in school. The text considers the way in...
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238,48 zł |
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Working with Adolescents: Constructing Identity
ISBN: 9780750707305 / Angielski / Twarda / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work examines the way in which personality and identity of the pupil is shaped by his or her experiences in school. The text considers the way in which teachers in secondary schools are working, and to some extent living, with adolescent pupils for the majority of time in their weekday waking lives. The book examines: to what extent teachers provide both positive and negative role models for pupils to follow; the factors restricting the ability of teachers to teach effectively; and conversely, what factors work to their advantage.
This work examines the way in which personality and identity of the pupil is shaped by his or her experiences in school. The text considers the way in...
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876,20 zł |
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The Positive Influence Generation
ISBN: 9780761838241 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every person has the enormous potential to positively influence others, but there is no word in the English language that describes this. Many who fear their lasting influences and deny that a positive influence is important, pay psychologically for this neglect. The 18-25-year-olds today could change this. They report significantly higher potential and need for lasting positive influence than previous generations. This finding, the result of an extensive survey completed by 542 college students, surprisingly suggests that we may see a paradigm shift in the twenty-first century. However, this...
Every person has the enormous potential to positively influence others, but there is no word in the English language that describes this. Many who fea...
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217,85 zł |
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