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| Title: | Focus on Adolescent Behavior Research
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| Author: | Terry C Rhodes (ed) |
| ISBN: | 1600216978 : 9781600216978 |
| Illustrations: | tables & charts |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 180x260mm |
| Pages: | 285 |
| Weight: | .702 Kg. |
| Published: | Nova Science Publishers - September 2007 |
| List Price: | 85.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Adolescents |
Developmentally, puberty is accompanied by major physical and emotional changes that alter a young person’s relationships and patterns of interaction with others. The transition into adolescence begins the move toward independence from parents and the need to establish one’s own values, personal and sexual identity, and the skills and competencies needed to compete in adult society. Independence requires young people to renegotiate family rules and degree of supervision by parents, a process that can generate conflict and withdrawal from parents. At the same time, social networks expand, and relationships with peers and adults in new social contexts equal or exceed in importance the relationships with parents. The criteria for success and acceptance among peers and adults change. Adapting to all of these changes in relationships, social contexts, status, and performance criteria can generate great stress, feelings of rejection, and anger at perceived or real failure. Young people may be attracted to violent behaviour as a way of asserting their independence of the adult world and its rules, as a way of gaining the attention and respect of peers, as a way of compensating for limited personal competencies, or as a response to restricted opportunities for success at school or in the community. Good relationships with parents during childhood will help in a successful transition to adolescence, but they do not guarantee it. This new book presents new research in the field.
Preface; Screening Drug Use among Adolescents in Brazil; Core Human Values, Risk Factors and Health Risk Behaviours: New Evidence for Advancing Risk Reduction Strategies among Adolescents; Prevention and Risk Reduction among Adolescents (Prevention and Risk Reduction among Adolescents: A 16 year Community-Research Partnership); Military-Style Residential Treatment for Disruptive Adolescents (Military-Style Residential Treatment for Disruptive Adolescents: A Critical Review and Look to the Future; Anger Expressive Behaviours and its Inhibitory Factors in Japanese Junior High School Students: From the Aspect to Narcissism and Norms; Value Similarity in Adolescent Friendships (Value Similarity in Adolescent Friendships); The Role of Social Coping Mechanisms in Adolescent Health Behaviour; Depressive Phenomenology among Hispanic American Adolescents; Understanding Sexual Behaviour of Adolescents: Contributions to Sexual Health Promotion and HIV/AIDS Prevention; Aggression and Violent Behaviour Among Korean Adolescents: Personal Factors, Path Model, and Gender Differences; Intra-Familial Sexual Abuse (Incest) among Korean Adolescents.
