Helping parents learn what to expect in children ages ten through twenty and discussing circumstances surrounding "problem" behavior, this guide can help make a teenager's development a period of satisfying progress toward adulthood

You and Your Adolescent: A Parents' Guide for Ages 10 to 20

Politics & Social Sciences

Steinberg, Laurence

Levine, Ann

Social Sciences

Harpercollins

A valuable guide for parents raising kids aged 10 to 20, this is "virtually an 'owner's manual' for the parents of teenagers."--The New York Times. The authors offer sound advice and helpful information to instruct parents on how to relate to their adolescents.

You and Your Adolescent: A Parent's Guide for Ages 10 to 20

Parenting & Relationships

Harper Brothers

With the growing problems of teenage pregnancy, AIDS and violence that adolescents have to face, this updated edition of You and Your Adolescent is an important book for parents. 
 Laurence Steinberg and Ann Levine reassure and advise parents, helping them understand family communication, the physical and emotional changes of puberty, intellectual and moral growth, peer pressure, sex, drugs, cigarettes, alcohol and other challenges this period brings. They also provide special advice for single parents, working parents and stepparents. Divided into three periods: 10 to 13, 14 to 17 and 18 to 20, You and Your Adolescent is both easy to read and follow. 
 By taking the mystery out of adolescence, the authors aid parents in making their teenagers development a period of satisfying growth toward adulthood.

You and Your Adolescent Revised Edition: Parent's Guide for Ages 10-20, A

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

William Morrow Paperbacks

Up to date, comprehensive and research based, Adolescence focuses on understanding adolescents' development within the contexts of their environment and social relationships. Professor Steinberg utilizes his expertise as a teacher, researcher and author to produce a text that appeals to professors and students from a variety of disciplines. The fifth edition of Adolescence has been thoroughly updated to reflect current findings in the field of adolescent development. In this edition, the author continues to utilize the effective combination of a friendly writing style, thorough research and a contextual approach that emphasizes adolescence in contemporary society. The text's careful organization ensures maximum teaching flexibility that allows the chapters to work together or stand alone. Ethnicity and minority issues are thoroughly discussed in a way that enables students to see how the adolescent experience is shaped by class and culture. The strong pedagogical framework helps students organize and integrate material. Although Adolescence, 5e is based on solid research and theory, it has a distinctively "real world" feel that emphasizes the reality of being an adolescent in today's society.

Adolescence

Psychology & Counseling

Mcgraw-Hill College

This text on adolescence development has been updated to include the most current research in this discipline, providing a multidisciplinary view of adolescence that is based on coverage of research and theory. Stein berg's recent research deals with adolescents and work and teenage single parents. This third edition emphasizes the contexts of development with regard to adolescence, such as the school setting, peer groups, families, and the workplace. Issues such as eating disorders, scholastic achievement, and adolescent sexuality are covered as well. There are expanded sections on hormonal influences, physical health, information processing, adolescent risk-taking, non college-bound adolescents, the impact of divorce and remarriage, peer crowds, AIDS, and more. The text presents an ecological model that explains the contexts in which young people come of age and how it affects the nature of the adolescent experience. Students from a variety of disciplines including psychology, education, human development, nursing and social work should be interested in this text, which combines research, theory and applications.

A one-term, chronologically organized child development text, fourteen chapters in length, which features the "development in context" approach. Author Larry Steinberg is nationally known for his research in adolescence. The course may be found in departments of psychology, human development, or education. This is a mainstream text, accompanied by a full supplements package.

Childhood

Meyer, Roberta

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

This text provides a guide to adolescent development. Combining research, theory and applications, it emphasizes the contexts of development with regard to adolescence, such as the school setting, peer groups, families and the workplace.

McGraw=Hill

This text focuses on understanding adolescents' development within the contexts of their environment and social relationships. It includes over 800 new studies and more than 100 new references on development within ethnic minority populations.

Reyome, Nancy Dodge

Adolescence, 6e by Laurence Steinberg has been thoroughly updated to reflect current findings in the field of adolescent development. In this edition, the author continues to utilize the effective combination of a friendly writing style, thorough research and a contextual approach that emphasizes adolescence in contemporary society. The text’s careful organization ensures maximum teaching flexibility that allows the chapters to work together or stand alone. Ethnicity and Minority issues are thoroughly discussed in a way that enables students to see how the adolescent experience is shaped by class and culture. The strong pedagogical framework helps students organize and integrate material. Adolescence, 6e is based on solid research and theory, yet it has a distinctively “real world” feel that emphasizes the reality of being an adolescent in today’s society.

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You and Your Adolescent: A Parents' Guide for Ages 10 to 20

You and Your Adolescent: A Parent's Guide for Ages 10 to 20

You and Your Adolescent Revised Edition: Parent's Guide for Ages 10-20, A

Adolescence

Adolescence

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Adolescence

Adolescence

Adolescence

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