Adolescent Stress: Causes and Consequences

by Mary Colten

Overview

Adolescent Stress concentrates on a range of major problems—those of a normal developmental nature as well as those of poor adaptation—identified in adolescents.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780202304212
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	12/31/1991
Series:	Social Institutions and Social Change Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	342
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1490L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

1: Introduction: Adolescent Stress, Social Relationships, and Mental Health; I: Editors’ Overview Development , Stress and Relationships; 2: Anger, Worry, and Hurt in Early Adolescence: An Enlarging World of Negative Emotions; Conflict and Adaptation in Adolescence: Adolescent-Parent Conflict; 4: Psychosocial Stress during Adolescence: Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Processes; II: Editors’ Overview Sources of Variation in Stress and Stress Responses; 5: Coping with Adolescence; 6: Stressful Events and Their Correlates among Adolescents of Diverse Backgrounds; 7: How Stressful Is the Transition to Adolescence for Girls?; III: Editors’ Overview Youth at High Risk: The Social Situation and Mental Health of Adolescents Under Adversity; 8: The Patterning of Distress and Disorder in a Community Sample of High School Aged Youth; 9: Minority Youths at High Risk: Gay Males and Runaways; 10: Childhood Victimization: Risk Factor for Delinquency; 11: Psychoactive Substance Use and Adolescent Pregnancy: Compounded Risk among Inner City Adolescent Mothers; 12: Stress in Mentally Retarded Children and Adolescents; IV: Editors’ Overview Strategies for Intervention; 13: A Multilevel Action-Research Perspective on Stress-Related Interventions; 14: Social Support in Adolescence

Editorial Reviews

"The book is a delight to read, offering students of adolescent development a rich and comprehensive view of state-of-the-art research about adolescent stress and adaptation. . . . [T]his volume surely does provide clear expression of important questions that we should be asking and some of the very best ways that we should be pursuing their answers." —Contemporary Psychology "Resulting from a multidisciplinary conference in 1987, this collection is an attempt to integrate theory and research on stress and adolescent development. The studies described are generally carefully designed and executed, and treat both internal and external variables critical to understanding this age. . . . The volume is intended for advanced scholars of adolescence and for those who would design ambitious studies of this developmental stage. . . . [T]he editors' introductions to each section are clear and helpful. Chapter end notes.” —F. J. Peirce, Choice “There is much to recommend this volume. It presents diverse perspectives from various disciplines and, collectively, the volume sensitizes the reader to the complexity of stress and its study, and to the salience of sex, race, and cultural differences in understanding stress development and its consequences. . . . By far the major contribution of the book was provided by the editors, who did much more than merely compile a set of rather diffuse papers. The lengthy introduction sets the background of the various approaches to the study of adolescent stress, but then plows important new theoretical ground. . . . The vision the editors present is refreshing, stimulating, and ambitious, and sets a high standard.” —Brian K. Barber, Journal of Marriage and Family

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