Offers social workers with research-based information necessary to develop successful teen pregnancy prevention programs. This title draws upon multi-disciplinary literature from psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, medicine, and public health to provide 'best practice' applications for effective social work intervention.
A Handbook for Successful Practice with Adolescents
A practical professional guide for how to approach and aid troubled teens by understanding the influence of peer interactions on development and on behaviour
Convincingly demonstrates that safeguards promised by parental involvement laws do not exist in practice and that a legal process designed to help young women make informed decisions instead victimizes them
The first book to understand the new sexual culture on its own terms, with vivid real-life stories of young men and women as they navigate the newest sexual revolution
The first book to understand the new sexual culture on its own terms, with vivid real-life stories of young men and women as they navigate the newest sexual revolution
The US Supreme Court has decided that states may require parental involvement in the abortion decisions of pregnant minors as long as minors have the opportunity to petition for a bypass of parental involvement. This title demonstrates that safeguards promised by parental involvement laws do not exist in practice.
Urban girls are marginalized by poverty, ethnic discrimination, and stereotypes suggesting that they have deficits compared to their peers. This book explores the diversity of urban adolescent girls' development and the sources of support and resilience that help them to build the foundations of strength that they need as they enter adulthood.
Urban girls are marginalized by poverty, ethnic discrimination, and stereotypes suggesting that they have deficits compared to their peers. This book explores the diversity of urban adolescent girls' development and the sources of support and resilience that help them to build the foundations of strength that they need as they enter adulthood.
How should a six-year-old be approached for an interview? What questions and topics are appropriate for twelve year olds? Do parents need to give their approval for all studies? This work features essays on the subject of youth that address these concerns, providing scholars with practical answers to their many methodological concerns.
How should a six-year-old be approached for an interview? What questions and topics are appropriate for twelve year olds? Do parents need to give their approval for all studies? This work features essays on the subject of youth that address these concerns, providing scholars with practical answers to their many methodological concerns.
Offers data and suggestions for practical intervention for those who study and work to support Latinas. This book highlights the challenges these young women face, as well as the ways in which they successfully negotiate those challenges. It is of interest to those who study and work with Latina youth.
Offers data and suggestions for practical intervention for those who study and work to support Latinas. This book highlights the challenges these young women face, as well as the ways in which they successfully negotiate those challenges. It is of interest to those who study and work with Latina youth.
Compiles a collection of chapters that cover a range of topics from relationships with parents to views about love, sex, and marriage; from experiences in college to those in the work place; and more. This book portrays the lives of young Americans between adolescence and young adulthood, a stage that the editor describes as emerging adulthood.
Drawing on interviews with over 100 young men and women, and five years of research, the author explores the fast-paced world of kids and their cars. She reveals a world where cars have incredible significance for kids, as a means of transportation and thereby freedom to come and go, as status symbols and as a means to express their identities.
Drawing on interviews with over 100 young men and women, and five years of research, the author explores the fast-paced world of kids and their cars. She reveals a world where cars have incredible significance for kids, as a means of transportation and thereby freedom to come and go, as status symbols and as a means to express their identities.
Reflects on what is promising in working with the suicidal adolescent and provides information relevant to theory, practice, and intervention. This volume provides empirically based findings that can be easily translated for practical use by the clinician. It includes discussion of malpractice risk management, and an extensive list of references.
In opposition to other books available discussing how girls are mean to each other, this book looks at WHY girls act this way. The author looks at the images family and media inadvertenly send to girls and discusses what should be done to prevent this avoidable pattern.
In opposition to other books available discussing how girls are mean to each other, this book looks at WHY girls act this way. The author looks at the images family and media inadvertenly send to girls and discusses what should be done to prevent this avoidable pattern.
This work offers practitioners and researchers information on a range of instruments used to evaluate suicidal behaviours in children and adolescents. It describes conceptual, definitional and psychometric issues important in evaluating and comparing various assessment instruments.
This is the first attempt to integrate research on the place of religion in adolescent development today and to consider the impact of it on law and social policy making.
The American media has recently discovered children's experiences in present-day wars. This book shows that boys and girls have routinely contributed to war efforts, armies have accepted under-aged soldiers for centuries, and war-time experiences have affected the ways in which grown-up children of war perceive themselves and their societies.
The American media has recently discovered children's experiences in present-day wars. This book shows that boys and girls have routinely contributed to war efforts, armies have accepted under-aged soldiers for centuries, and war-time experiences have affected the ways in which grown-up children of war perceive themselves and their societies.
This text offers psychotherapists and others involved in emergency response information on the immediate and lasting effects of trauma on children and adolescents. It reviews the research and intervention literature on a broad range of natural and man-made disasters.
This text has answers to real questions asked by parents and teen girls. Readers should find the questions and answers to be like having a personal confidant or private therapist who they can ask anything and everything they have ever wanted to know about being a teenager or being a parent.
Adolescents Confront Life and Violence in an Urban Community
This work explores how a group of African-American, Jamaican, Puerto Rican and Haitian adolescents respond to living in an inner-city community. It focuses on areas of particular concern to the youth, such as violence, educational opportunities, and a decaying and demoralizing environment.
