This unique book includes 18 cases written by undergraduates or recent graduates representing a cultural and topically diverse perspective. These eighteen cases represent a fascinating cross-section of contemporary adolescence. The cases cover a variety of issues, including family and peer relationships, eating disorders, self image, and illness. For psychologists and educators interested in adolescent development and psychology.

Adolescent Portraits: Identity, Relationships, and Challenges (4th Edition)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Smulyan, Lisa

Powers, Sally I.

Kilkenny, Robert

Garrod, Andrew C.

Psychology & Counseling

Allyn&Bacon

Adolescent Portraits is a compelling anthology of first-person accounts written by college students, which illustrate the contemporary theories and research that surround adolescent development today. These real-life cases represent a fascinating, diverse cross-section of contemporary adolescence and cover a variety of issues, including family and peer relationships, eating disorders, self image, illness, and disabilities.

Adolescent Portraits: Identity, Relationships, and Challenges (5th Edition)

Mental Health

Adolescent Portraits is a compelling anthology of first-person accounts written by college students which illustrate the contemporary theories and research that surround adolescent development today. These real-life cases represent a fascinating, diverse cross-section of contemporary adolescence and cover a variety of issues, including family and peer relationships, eating disorders, self image, illness, and disabilities.

Adolescent Portraits: Identity, Relationships, and Challenges (6th Edition)

Pearson

Balancing Acts: Woman Principals at Work (Suny Series in Women in Education)

Offers surprising insights into the complex worlds of women principals.

Balancing Acts: Women Principals at Work (Suny Series in Women in Education)

Politics & Social Sciences

Women's Studies

State Univ of New York Pr

Offers surprising insights into the complex worlds of women principals. Balancing Acts uses life history and ethnography to examine the lives and work of three female elementary school principals and highlights their daily use of personal and professional skills. Smulyan examines the principals' personal backgrounds and their effect on their work within the community they serve, their school, and the historical and social structures that frame their actions and interactions. What emerges is a fascinating personal view of the dilemmas, decisions, and consequences faced by the female principalship.