基本説明
Illuminates protective and risk factors in the many contexts of adolescents' lives, from individual attributes to family, school, neighborhood, and media influences.
Full Description
A state-of-the-art practitioner resource and course text, this book provides a comprehensive view of adolescent development and spells out effective ways to help teens who are having difficulties. The authors illuminate protective and risk factors in the many contexts of adolescents' lives, from individual attributes to family, school, neighborhood, and media influences. An ecological perspective is applied to understanding and addressing specific adolescent challenges, including substance abuse, sexual identity issues, mental health problems, risky sexual behavior, and delinquency. Throughout the book, clear-cut assessment and intervention strategies are illustrated with rich case examples.
Contents
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Foreword, Jeffrey M. Jenson
_x000D_ I. Theoretical Framework _x000D_ 1. Challenges in Clinical Work with Adolescents: An Overview _x000D_ 2. The Push–Pull of Adolescent Development _x000D_ 3. Resilience in Adolescence _x000D_ II. The Adolescent in Context _x000D_ 4. Internal Assets and Individual Attributes Associated with Healthy Adolescent Outcomes, Tom Luster _x000D_ 5. The Family Environment, Douglas Davies _x000D_ 6. The School Environment _x000D_ 7. The Neighborhood Environment _x000D_ 8. Media Influences _x000D_ 9. Assessment and Intervention at Each Ecological Level: A Case Illustration, Julie Anne Laser, Nicole Nicotera, Tom Luster and Douglas Davies _x000D_ III. Clinical Interventions for Problematic Adolescent Behavior _x000D_ 10. Substance Abuse, Julie Anne Laser, George Stuart Leibowitz, and Nicole Nicotera _x000D_ 11. Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Development _x000D_ 12. Mental Health Issues: Depressive Symptoms, Personality Disorders, Suicidal Behavior, and Self-Injurious Behavior _x000D_ 13. Sexual Behaviors, Sexually Transmitted Diseases including HIV/AIDS, and Pregnancy, Julie Anne Laser, Nicole Nicotera, and Shannon Sainer _x000D_ 14. Delinquency, Julie Anne Laser, George Stuart Leibowitz, and Nicole Nicotera _x000D_ 15. The Joys of Working with Adolescents _x000D_
