Adolescence category: 1257 books
Age of Opportunity
Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
**“Simply the best book I have ever read about adolescence. . . With gentle wisdom, Steinberg guides us through truly novel findings on what happens during adolescence and tells us how, as parents and teachers, we should change our ways.” — Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph. D., author of The Optimistic...
by Jean Walbridge
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
In a letter to Ms. Walbridge's web site, ParentingAdolescents.com, a parent complains that her 13-year-old has "changed into a new creature recently." "Surviving Your Child's Adolescence" helps parents understand and manage both those "new creatures" they find living...
The Dominion of Youth
Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920 to 1950
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2008
Adolescence, like childhood, is more than a biologically defined life stage: it is also a sociohistorical construction. The meaning and experience of adolescence are reformulated according to societal needs, evolving scientific precepts, and national aspirations relative to historic conditions. Although...
The Parents’ and Educators’ Manual of Teenage “Rebirth”
How to Prepare Teens for Victorious Transitions into Adolescence and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Adolescence marks a special and unique stage in human growth and development, but it can be an extremely challenging time for both parents and teenagers. In The Parents and Educators Manual of Teenage Rebirth, author Bruce G. Bentley provides an understanding of how teenagers think, feel, and experience...
My Girl
Adventures with a Teen in Training
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2009
Here's a radical concept: Most girls are happy, and so are their mothers. Most girls are not destined for depression, eating disorders, low self-esteem, and raging fights with their parents-that's just a very noisy minority. In My Girl, Karen Stabiner tells the story of one girl's journey into adolescence,...
Asperger Syndrome in Adolescence
Living with the Ups, the Downs and Things in Between
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2003
Childhood and adult experiences of individuals with Asperger Syndrome (AS) are becoming increasingly well documented, yet the crucial formative teenage years have, so far, been neglected. Adolescence is a difficult time for any teenager, but when you have Asperger Syndrome this already emotionally...
Adolescence in the 21st Century
Constants and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
What is wrong with young people today? This question has captured the concerns of the older generation about the habits and attitudes of the adolescents in their midst. The assumption is that there is indeed something wrong with young people. Even Plato must have rolled his eyes, as he relates his...
Escaping the Endless Adolescence
How We Can Help Our Teenagers Grow Up Before They Grow Old
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Do you sometimes wonder how your teen is ever going to survive on his or her own as an adult? Does your high school junior seem oblivious to the challenges that lie ahead? Does your academically successful nineteen-year-old still expect you to “just take care of” even the most basic life tasks?
Welcome...
You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition
The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
“Relax! The horror stories you have heard about adolescence are false.”
This is Dr. Laurence Steinberg’s reassuring message to parents in this newly revised edition of his classic book You and Your Adolescent, which Publishers Weekly says is “filled with solid advice for the parents...
Preparing for the Journey Through Adolescence
A Handbook for Teens
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
The Handbook Preparing for the Journey through Adolescence: A Handbook for Teens makes adolescents aware, in a down-to-earth manner, of the hardships that await them in those trying, though exciting years. It deals in detail with the challenges that face adolescents. The Handbook aims at helping adolescents...
Asperger Syndrome, Adolescence, and Identity
Looking Beyond the Label
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2004
How do teenagers with Asperger Syndrome view themselves and their own lives?
This book is based on extensive interviews with adolescents diagnosed with AS. It includes six life stories, written in collaboration with the teenagers themselves. These present an authentic and fascinating look at...
Romance and Sex in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood
Risks and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
In this classic editiontop scholars in family research examine the nature and origin of adolescents’ contemporary patterns of sexual and romantic relationships, from the evolutionary roots of these behaviors to policies and programs that represent best practices for addressing these issues in schools...
by Martha Parker-Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Martha Parker-Sanders, was born in Arkansas, she married her childhood class mate at age eighteen and later moved to California, where she attended college and obtained her degrees in Child Development. Ms.Martha Sanders put special emphasis on childrens growth within their environment and community....
The Mother-Daughter Project
How Mothers and Daughters Can Band Together, Beat the Odds,and Thrive Through Ad olescence
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2007
**Few things are more meaningful—or more complicated—than mother-daughter relationships. This helpful parenting guide helps moms navigate their relationships with their daughters to create strong ties and a close, respectful connection that will last a lifetime. **
SuEllen Hamkins, MD,...