Encyclopedia of Adolescence
Encyclopedia of Adolescence

Author: Roger J.R. Levesque

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2014-07-08

Total Pages: 3161

ISBN-13: 1441916954

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The Encyclopedia of Adolescence breaks new ground as an important central resource for the study of adolescence. Comprehensive in breath and textbook in depth, the Encyclopedia of Adolescence – with entries presented in easy-to-access A to Z format – serves as a reference repository of knowledge in the field as well as a frequently updated conduit of new knowledge long before such information trickles down from research to standard textbooks. By making full use of Springer’s print and online flexibility, the Encyclopedia is at the forefront of efforts to advance the field by pushing and creating new boundaries and areas of study that further our understanding of adolescents and their place in society. Substantively, the Encyclopedia draws from four major areas of research relating to adolescence. The first broad area includes research relating to "Self, Identity and Development in Adolescence". This area covers research relating to identity, from early adolescence through emerging adulthood; basic aspects of development (e.g., biological, cognitive, social); and foundational developmental theories. In addition, this area focuses on various types of identity: gender, sexual, civic, moral, political, racial, spiritual, religious, and so forth. The second broad area centers on "Adolescents’ Social and Personal Relationships". This area of research examines the nature and influence of a variety of important relationships, including family, peer, friends, sexual and romantic as well as significant nonparental adults. The third area examines "Adolescents in Social Institutions". This area of research centers on the influence and nature of important institutions that serve as the socializing contexts for adolescents. These major institutions include schools, religious groups, justice systems, medical fields, cultural contexts, media, legal systems, economic structures, and youth organizations. "Adolescent Mental Health" constitutes the last major area of research. This broad area of research focuses on the wide variety of human thoughts, actions, and behaviors relating to mental health, from psychopathology to thriving. Major topic examples include deviance, violence, crime, pathology (DSM), normalcy, risk, victimization, disabilities, flow, and positive youth development.

Retrospective Student Experiences
Retrospective Student Experiences

Author: Julie M. Shaw

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13:

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Home lives filled with stressors such as poverty, mental illness, substance abuse, and homelessness are some of the often-unrecognized realities students in schools across America face. These realities often put high-school students at risk for underperforming. Many current political policies are not suited to deal with the issues these students present, even though many of these policies provide guidelines for specific preventive measures, often in the form of student support programs embedded within high schools. However, little is known of the students' own perceptions of the intersection between their stressful home lives and high-school success. This study proposes to consider the experiences and stories of former high school students reflecting on their chronically stressful home environments and their experiences with supportive programs in high school. Understanding students' own perceptions will inform future practice within high schools. The findings of this study may be significant in redesigning student assistance programs across the state to provide supports that allow students to achieve academically and personally to their fullest potential. This phenomenological study is based on a conceptual framework with three main streams: struggles of students living with chronic stress, student support programs, and policy considerations. It also seeks to answer the following central question and three related sub-questions: 1. Central Question: How do former high-school students describe their chronically stressful home environments during high school, and how did the high school and supportive programming they may or may not have received at the time influence their home, social, or academic experiences? 2. Sub-Questions: a. What specific characteristics of high school do former high-school students identify as successfully supporting their ability to manage their chronically stressful environments? b. How did these characteristics allow for greater success during their high-school years? c. How do former high-school students who endured chronically stressful home environments describe their personal interactions with and attitudes toward school-facilitated services and support programs while in high school?

Handbook of Children in the Legal System
Handbook of Children in the Legal System

Author: Ginger C. Calloway

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-08-26

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 042967421X

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This handbook brings together the relevant literature on children and their developmental characteristics, the legal venues in which they may appear, and the systemic issues practitioners must consider to provide a thorough guide to working with children in the legal system. Featuring contributions from leading mental health and legal experts, chapters start with an overview and history of the juvenile justice system along with discussion of critical developmental areas imperative to consider for work with children, and idiosyncratic issues that arise. The book ends with a case presentation section that illustrates the varied roles and venues in which children appear in the legal system. An extended bibliography provides additional resources and literature to investigate specific topics in greater length. This accessible and useable guide is designed to appeal to a broad range of people encountering children in the legal system, including social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, attorneys, and judges. It will also benefit professions such as law enforcement as well as probation officers, child protective workers, school personnel, and medical personnel.

Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 and Families, Parents, and Children
Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 and Families, Parents, and Children

Author: Marc H. Bornstein

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-12-13

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1000338215

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With specially commissioned introductions from international experts, the Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 series draws together previously published chapters on key themes in psychological science that engage with people’s unprecedented experience of the pandemic. This volume collects chapters that address prominent issues and challenges presented by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic to families, parents, and children. A new introduction from Marc H. Bornstein reviews how disasters are known to impact families, parents, and children and explores traditional and novel responsibilities of parents and their effects on child growth and development. It examines parenting at this time, detailing consequences for home life and economies that the pandemic has triggered; considers child discipline and abuse during the pandemic; and makes recommendations that will support families in terms of multilevel interventions at family, community, and national and international levels. The selected chapters elucidate key themes including children’s worry, stress and parenting, positive parenting programs, barriers which constrain population-level impact of prevention programs, and the importance of culturally adapting evidence-based family intervention programs. Featuring theory and research on key topics germane to the global pandemic, the Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 series offers thought-provoking reading for professionals, students, academics, policy makers, and parents concerned with the psychological consequences of COVID-19 for individuals, families, and society.