The Adolescent Experience: Edition 4
Oct 1999 · Elsevier
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The Adolescent Experience places the college student at the very heart of the book. The authors engage in a dialogue with the reader that is warm, caring, and often humorous as they write and share material about this time of life. The authors emphasize the role that development and society play in the lives of young people. The book has a solid research basis with a historical and multicultural focus. But most important, the book is practical and applied with the strongest prevention/health promotion material available in any basic undergraduate adolescent psychology text currently on the market.Key Features* Focuses on health promotion and illness prevention* Provides not only a U.S. but also a much needed Canadian perspective to this life stage* Involves students as participants in a long-standing inquiry into the nature of adolescence as they are introduced to the latest research in the field* Provides students with the latest practical information in subject areas like sexuality, drugs and alcohol, suicide and depression, eating disorders, crime, delinquency, and violent behavior* List server links student and/or instructor to authors* Explores the uniqueness of North America's multi-culturalism* Illustrates important concepts using literature and social history to make them tangible to students
About the author
Thomas P. Gullotta is CEO of the Child and Family Agency and is a member of the faculty at Eastern Connecticut State University. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Primary Prevention. He serves as a general series book editor for Advances in Adolescent Development, and is the senior book series editor for Issues in Children's and Families' Lives. In addition, he serves as the monograph series editor for Prevention in Practice. Gullotta holds editorial appointments on the Journal of Early Adolescence, Adolescence, and the Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation. He serves on the Board of the National Mental Health Association and works frequently as a consultant for several branches of the U.S. Federal Government on issues relating to young people and primary prevention. He has published extensively on adolescents and primary prevention.Gerald Adams is the editor of the journal Research in Adolescence and the editor of the book series Advances in Adolescent Development.
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