Author: Moses Laufer
Publisher: Karnac Books
Keywords: adolescent, centre, brent, amp, breakdown
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 1997-06-01
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 1855751496
ISBN-13: 9781855751491

Contains papers giving up-to-date psychodynamic perspectives on adolescent breakdown by leading clinical experts. These cover a range of topics, such as differing patterns of development in male and female adolescents, and the particular problems of psyhchotherapeutic intervention.

Authors:Richard M. Lerner, Laurence Steinberg,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: adolescent, development, volume, bases, individual, psychology, handbook
Number of Pages: 823
Published: 2009-04-06
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0470149213
ISBN-13: 9780470149218

The study of and interest in adolescence in the field of psychology and related fields continues to grow, necessitating an expanded revision of this seminal work. This multidisciplinary handbook, edited by the premier scholars in the field, Richard Lerner and Laurence Steinberg, and with contributions from the leading researchers, reflects the latest empirical work and growth in the field.

Authors:Richard M. Lerner, Laurence Steinberg,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: adolescent, development, volume, influences, contextual, psychology, handbook
Number of Pages: 705
Published: 2009-04-06
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0470149221
ISBN-13: 9780470149225

The study of and interest in adolescence in the field of psychology and related fields continues to grow, necessitating an expanded revision of this seminal work. This multidisciplinary handbook, edited by the premier scholars in the field, Richard Lerner and Laurence Steinberg, and with contributions from the leading researchers, reflects the latest empirical work and growth in the field.

Authors:DeQuincy Lezine, David Brent,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: adolescent, mental, health, suicide, initiative, hope, stories, chooses, eight, over
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-04-14
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0195325567
ISBN-13: 9780195325560

Suicide is the third leading cause of death for young Americans aged 15-24. As a teenager, DeQuincy Lezine nearly ended his own life-he believed it was the only way to end the emotional pain and misery caused by clinical depression. Instead, Lezine was able to receive expert psychiatric care, and went on to found the first campus-based chapter of the Suicide Prevention Action Network USA. Now a researcher at the University of Rochester Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, Lezine is particularly devoted to preventing adolescent suicide, and he brings the wealth of his personal and

Authors:Dwight L. Evans M.D., Linda Wasmer Andrews,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: adolescent, mental, health, initiative, parents, essential, depression, bipolar, disorder, resource
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2005-08-11
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0195182103
ISBN-13: 9780195182101

[SERIES COPY] The Adolescent Mental Health Initiative series addresses some of the major mental health issues facing teenagers today--eating disorders, anxiety disorders, depression, and schizophrenia. Of the dozen or so books planned for the series, the first four, including the two presented here, focus on how parents and other adults, including teachers, coaches, guidance counselors, and even pediatricians, can help afflicted teens overcome the disrupting and often devastating challenges of these disorders. Each book is an authoritative guide that offers essential information such as how to

Authors:Edna B. Foa, Linda Wasmer Andrews,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: adolescent, sunnylands, mental, health, initiative, foundation, parents, anxiety, disorder, essential, resource, annenberg
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0195181514
ISBN-13: 9780195181517

Growing up can be stressful for any teenager, but it is considerably harder for the many adolescents who develop an anxiety disorder. This book is an essential guide for parents, teachers, or other adults involved with teenagers who may e affected by these disorders. By bringing together two strands of expertise--that of mental health professionals and of parents who have lived through the experience of their own teenager’s mental illness--If Your Adolescent Has an Anxiety Disorder provides adult readers with the clinical information and practical advice they need to understand and help

Author: Franklin E. Zimring
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: legal, adolescent, development, policy, offending, sexual, responses, american, travesty
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $31.00
ISBN-10: 0226983579
ISBN-13: 9780226983578

An American Travesty is the first scholarly book in half a century to analyze the justice system’s response to sexual misconduct by children and adolescents in the United States. Writing with a refreshing dose of common sense, Franklin E. Zimring discusses our society’s failure to consider the developmental status of adolescent sex offenders. Too often, he argues, the American legal system ignores age and developmental status when adjudicating young sexual offenders, in many cases responding as they would to an adult. “An opinionated, articulate, and forceful critique of current pol