Understanding Adolescents for Helping Professionals.

Promotes an in-depth understanding of adolescent development that can be immediately applied to effective treatment Adolescence is a distinct and complex stage of development, and successful interventions with this population require an in-depth understanding of the many forces affecting them. This...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Avidan Milevsky PhD, LCPC
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Springer Publishing Company, 2014.
Temas:
Adolescent psychology.
Adolescence.
Adolescents > Psychologie.
adolescence.
Adolescence
Adolescent psychology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Share Understanding Adolescents for Helping Professionals
  • Chapter 1: Understanding Adolescent Development
  • Chapter Overview
  • Applied Questions to Think About
  • What Is Development?
  • Nature Versus Nurture
  • Quantitative Growth Versus Qualitative Growth
  • Early Versus Late Experiences
  • Why Do We Study Adolescent Development?
  • The Study of Adolescent Development: Past, Present, and Future
  • What was Thought about Children?
  • What was Thought about Adolescents?
  • Present and Future.
  • Review of Chapter 1: Understanding Adolescent Development
  • Chapter 2: Adolescent Developmental Theories
  • Chapter Overview
  • Applied Questions to Think About
  • Intrapsychic Theories
  • Psychodynamic Theories
  • Post-Freudian Theories
  • Humanistic Theory
  • Cognitive Theories
  • Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory
  • Vygotsky's Social-Cultural Theory
  • Information-Processing Theory
  • Behavioral and Environmental Theories
  • Behavioral Theory
  • Social Cognitive Theory
  • Ecological Theory
  • Biological Theories
  • Evolutionary Theory
  • Ethological Theory
  • Evolutionary Psychology.
  • Integrative Theories
  • The Lifespan Theory
  • Review of Chapter 2: Adolescent Developmental Theories
  • Chapter 3: Research and Practice in Adolescent Development
  • Chapter Overview
  • Applied Questions to Think About
  • The Importance of Research-Based Practice
  • The Research Method
  • Research Design
  • Collecting Data
  • Reviewing Results
  • Sharing the Results with Others
  • Evaluating the Science and Ethics of Research
  • Careers in Adolescent Development
  • Review of Chapter 3: Research and Practice in Adolescent Development
  • Chapter 4: The Process of Puberty
  • Chapter Overview.
  • Applied Questions to Think About
  • The Beginning of Puberty
  • The Timing of Puberty
  • Off-Time Puberty
  • Review of Chapter 4: The Process of Puberty
  • Chapter 5: Body and Brain Development
  • Chapter Overview
  • Applied Questions to Think About
  • External and Internal Physical Changes
  • The Brain
  • Review of Chapter 5: Body and Brain Development
  • Chapter 6: Health and Nutrition
  • Chapter Overview
  • Applied Questions to Think About
  • Overall Health
  • Sleep
  • Diet and Nutrition
  • Review of Chapter 6: Health and Nutrition
  • Chapter 7: Cognition, Thinking, and School.
  • Chapter Overview
  • Applied Questions to Think About
  • Piaget's Formal Operational Stage
  • Hypothetical-Deductive Reasoning
  • Abstract and Complex Thinking
  • Thinking in Context
  • Social Cognition
  • Decision Making
  • Educating Adolescents
  • Learning at School
  • Learning at Work
  • Review of Chapter 7: Cognition, Thinking, and School
  • Chapter 8: Psychosocial Development
  • Chapter Overview
  • Applied Questions to Think About
  • Interacting Forces
  • Understanding the Self
  • Identity
  • Identity Achievement and Confusion
  • Marcia's Identity Statuses
  • Identity Throughout Life.

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