Developmental Psychology Arena

America's Teenagers--Myths and Realities

Media Images, Schooling, and the Social Costs of Careless Indifference

• By Sharon L. Nichols, Thomas L. Good

The media's presentation suggests that American teenage culture today is the most violent, sexual, and amoral youth culture in history. In this book, Nichols and...

Published April 1st 2004 by Routledge.

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Television and Child Development

• By Judith Van Evra

Television continues to play a major role in the lives of most children and adolescents, but current research also reflects the explosive growth in new...

Published March 30th 2004 by Routledge.

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Coming of Age in U.S. High Schools

Economic, Kinship, Religious, and Political Crosscurrents

• By Annette B. Hemmings

Coming of Age in U.S. High Schools: Economic, Kinship, Religious, and Political Crosscurrents takes readers into the lives of urban and suburban adolescents for a...

Published February 1st 2004 by Routledge.

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Bullying in American Schools

A Social-Ecological Perspective on Prevention and Intervention

• Edited by Dorothy L. Espelage, Susan M. Swearer

Much of our knowledge about bullying behaviors comes from research conducted over the past several decades in Europe, Australia, and Canada. Until the past decade,...

Published November 1st 2003 by Psychology Press.

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Adolescent Psychiatry, V. 27

Annals of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry

• Edited by Lois T. Flaherty

Volume 27 of Adolescent Psychiatry focuses on trauma and violence among adolescents, and attends especially to the psychological, biological, and social impact of trauma on...

Published September 1st 2003 by Routledge.

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Adolescent Romantic Relations and Sexual Behavior

Theory, Research, and Practical Implications

• Edited by Paul Florsheim

Developmental and clinical researchers have only just discovered the phenomenon of adolescent romance as a topic of serious scientific inquiry. This discovery may be related...

Published June 1st 2003 by Psychology Press.

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The Faces of Televisual Media

Teaching, Violence, Selling To Children

• Edited by Edward L. Palmer, Brian M. Young

This collection offers original, state-of-the-art contributions from leading authorities in children's televisual media. International researchers from communication and psychology provide readers with ready access to...

Published June 1st 2003 by Routledge.

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Linking Child Maltreatment and Juvenile Delinquency

Causes, Correlates, and Consequences:a Special Issue of Children's Services

• Edited by Jodi A. Quas, Bette L. Bottoms, Narina Nunez

The articles in this special issue contain outstanding examples of recent research and theory linking the fields of child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency. The authors--all...

Published December 1st 2002 by Psychology Press.

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Goals, Goal Structures, and Patterns of Adaptive Learning

• Edited by Carol Midgley

Achievement goal theory has emerged as one of the preeminent approaches to motivation. Goals, Goal Structures, and Patterns of Adaptive Learning presents the findings of...

Published April 1st 2002 by Routledge.

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Adolescent Psychiatry, V. 26

Annals of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry

• Edited by Lois T. Flaherty

Volume 26 of The Annals begins with essays that address the challenge of maintaining human connections in a biological century; Philip Katz focuses on the...

Published April 1st 2002 by Routledge.

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