Karen Grover Duffy

Annual Editions: Adolescent Psychology 04/05

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This updated, 4th edition, is a collection of public press articles covering definitions of adolescence; biological and psychological aspects of puberty; cognitive growth and education; identity and socioemotional development; family relationships; peers and youth culture; teenage sexuality; and problem behaviors and interventions. Additional support is available at our our student website, Dushkin Online (www.dushkin.com/online/).

Produktdetails

• Annual Editions: Adolescent Ps
• Verlag: Dushkin Publishing
• Revised
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 274mm x 209mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780072949490
• ISBN-10: 007294949X
• Artikelnr.: 21262924

Inhaltsangabe

UNIT 1. Perspectives and Adolescence 1. Harnessing the Energies of Youth, Isaac C. Lamba, UN Chronicle, September/November 2002 This special United Nations report addresses global concerns about children and youth. Political agendas around the world as well as wars, epidemics, and other issues that affect youth are discussed. The conclusion is that children need to be listened to to ensure their participation in their futures. 2. On (not)
Coloring in the Outline
(Transformations from Youth Through Relationships), Linda C. Powell, Journal of Social Issues, Spring 2003 This article is the introductory article for a series on adolescents, particularly the violence and injustice they perceive. Through youthful
voices
the authors discuss certain themes such as the centrality of schools and the interactive roles of justice and development. 3. The Future of Adolescence: Lengthening Ladders to Adulthood, Reed Larson, The Futurist, November/December 2002 Adolescence is the threshold to adulthood. Are today
s adolescents prepared to become adults? The Study Group on Adolescence in the 21st Century says
yes
. In fact, many adolescents rise to the challenge despite increased risks and greater demands on them than past generations. UNIT 2. Puberty and Biology 4. Developmental Markers in Adolescence: Implications for Studies of Pubertal Processes, Lorah D. Dorn, Ronald E. Dahl, Douglas E. Williamson, Boris Birmaher, David Axelson, James Perel, Stacy D. Stull, and Neal D. Ryan, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, October 2003 Studies of puberty are inconsistent because of differences in the measures of samples used. Various studies show that early, late, or average maturation might be best. The present study that (longitudinally) followed both boys and girls suggests that no single measure best captures the biological or psychosocial maturation processes of puberty. 5. Early Puberty, Fathering Magazine, February 27, 2003 Early or late puberty can be difficult on adolescents. How to determine the beginning of puberty remains an important question because of the sexualization of childhood in America. How parents can cope better with their changing adolescent is also discussed in this article. 6. Adolescent Neurodevelopment and Psychopathology, Elaine F. Walker, Current Directions in Psychological Science, February 2002 Adolescence is a high-risk period for the onset of psychopathology such as schizophrenia. Adolescent hormone production and its subsequent influence on brain development offers one plausible mechanism for the onset of psychopathology during adolescence. 7. Why do Kids Eat Healthful Food? Perceived Benefits of and Barriers to Healthful Eating and Physical Activity Among Children and Adolescents, Jennifer A. O
Dea, Journal of the American Dietetic Association, April 2003 Students up to the age of 17 were interviewed to discover what they perceive as the benefits of physical activity and good diet. Students identified fitness, better sports performance, and enhanced endurance among other benefits. The researchers also elicited information on barriers to a better lifestyle and suggest that schools and parents can intervene to do more. 8. Body Image: How Do You See Yourself?, Kathiann M. Kowalski, Current Health 2, March 2003 Kowalski defines and elaborates upon the concept of body image. She also discusses why body image is important to adolescents. She places much blame on the media for adolescents
worrying too much about weight and appearance. UNIT 3. Cognitive Growth and Education Part A. School Issues 9. Are Students Failing School or Are Schools Failing Students? Class Cutting in High School, R. Kirk Fallis and Susan Opotow, Journal of Social Issues, Spring 2003 Boredom may lead to class cutting, school alienation, and even violence. Rather than treating each individual case with punishment, schools need to see these phenomena in a systemic manner. Then and only then will student concerns be taken into account and decreases in cutting classes and dropping out of school be witnessed. The authors include data from the study to support their viewpoints. 10. Sense of Belonging to School: Can Schools Make a Difference?, Xin Ma, Journal of Educational Research, July/August 2003 Recent waves of school violence by disenchanted youth have piqued interest in the roles of schools and of student membership in the educational community. When schools and teachers emphasize a sense of belonging by and for students, schools become better learning environments. 11. Challenges and Suggestions for Safe Schools, Katherine T. Bucher and M. Lee Manning, The Clearing House, January/February 2003 School violence includes
but is not limited töactual violence, bullying, sexual harassment, extortion, threats, and other forms of intimidation. All of these behaviors harm schools and students. The intensity of violence has also increased as evidenced from data presented by Bucher and Manning. In the face of all of this, administrators are being asked to make schools safer. Eight suggestions for making schools safer are shared. 12. Best Practices in Transition Programs, Nicole M. Deschenes and Hewitt B. Clark, The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter, June 2001 The Individuals with Disabilities Act provides a national mandate to help high school students with disabilities. Such students may face more difficulty with independence, emotions, and personal behaviors than other students. Studies reveal that many of these students do not successfully transition to adulthood. Schools need to do more to accommodate their needs. 13. Technology in the Classroom: How it is Changing (and Not Changing) Learning., School Planning and Management, March 2002 Because schools are so media-oriented and interactive due to new technologies, school administrators wonder whether the traditional classroom will disappear. According to this article, no traditional schools will be with us a long time. Much can be done to increase the comfort level of teachers and students with the new technologies. Part B. Measuring and Explaining Academic Performance 14. The New Cheating Epidemic, Anne Marie Chaker, Redbook, April 2003 Cheating in high school and middle school is on the increase, and parents and teachers wonder what to do about it. Why cheating occurs and how to curb it are central themes in this article. 15. Television Viewing and Academic Achievement Revisited, Franklin T. Thompson and William P. Austin, Education, Fall 2003 The authors review the literature on the way television viewing affects school performance. Several findings in the literature are fairly robust, but whether viewing negative programming causes poor academic achievement or poor achievement causes negative TV watching remains to be seen. 16. Studies Reveal Strengths, Weaknesses in Improving Rates of High School Graduation and College Completion for Low-Income and Minority Students, Bill Hemmer, The Americäs Intelligence Wire, October 24, 2003 Americans consider a college degree crucial to a good future and a good career. Many students, however, do not transition well or at all from public school to college. A large number of such students are minority students. What schools can do to plug the leak in this educational pipeline is the focus of this article. 17. Girls Rule, Jodi Wilgoren, The New York Times Upfront, March 5, 2001 Girls perform better than boys in school and enroll in college in larger numbers than do boys. Girls also outdistance boys on many standardized tests. Why girls academically surpass boys and how schools can make these situations more equitable are discussed in this article. UNIT 4. Identity and Socioemotional Development 18. Introduction: Identity Development Through Adulthood, Jane Kroger, Identity, January 2, 2002 Erikson
s theory of identity formation in adolescence has inspired thousands of psychological writings. Many authorities have elaborated further on Erikson
s theory. This review of adolescent identity development provides an excellent introduction to the main topic of this unit
identity. 19. Coming of Age in a Multicultural World: Globalization and Adolescent Cultural Identity Formation, Lene Arnett Jensen, Applied Developmental Science, July 1, 2003 Adolescents are growing up in an increasingly diverse world, thus causing the development of multicultural identities. How cultural identity forms, and the advantages and disadvantages of such an identity, are revealed by Jensen. 20. The Dynamics of Self-Esteem: A Growth-Curve Analysis, Scott A. Baldwin and John P. Hoffmann, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, April 2002 Is self-esteem in adolescence static or dynamic? Does it stay the same or does it change? A study of this subject provides data supporting the position that self-esteem or self-worth is dynamic. Family and life events account for its changeability. 21. Fostering Social-Emotional Learning in the Classroom, Linda K. Elksnin and Nick Elksnin, Education, Fall 2003 Many students face socio-emotional problems in school. Schools, therefore, have become centers for teaching social skills as well as traditional academic subjects. The authors explain first what emotional intelligence is and how it can be fostered in the classroom to help those students who are especially vulnerable to socio-emotional difficulties. 22. Gendered Reminiscence Practices and Self-Definition in Late Adolescence, Avril Thorne and Kate C. McLean, Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, May 2002 Are patterns of threatening events similar for teenage boys and girls? Researchers examined life-threatening events in childhood to determine whether these events are related to self-definition or identity in adolescence. For some memories, the boys and girls responded similarly; for other memories, their rem iniscences were different. UNIT 5. Family Relationships 23. Friends Forever, Karen Fanning, Scholastic Choices, September 2002 This article reveals research that shows most teens are not in a state of conflict with their parents. On the contrary, polls confirm that many families with adolescent members function well and interact happily with one another. 24. Support Network Eases Problems for Parents and Out-of-Control Teens, Stephanie Dunnewind, Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, January 21, 2003 When teens are out of control, parents feel helpless. This article reviews how support groups function for parents of teens who are using drugs, cutting school, shoplifting, or committing violence. 25. Learning to Chill: Overloaded at School and Overscheduled at Home, Stressed-Out Kids
with Their Parents
Blessing
Are Saying "Enough!", Susan Schindehette, Joanne Fowler, Margaret Nelson, and Jill Westfall, People Weekly, September 23, 2003 Today
s adolescents are busier than ever as they strive to please parents, teachers, and peers. Why today
s youth are so busy and distressed is covered in this article. Some families are saying
enough is enough
. 26. Parent-Adolescent Communication About Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use, Michelle A. Miller-Day, Journal of Adolescent Research, November 2002 Fewer than half of all adolescents engage in conversations about substance use with their parents. When they do communicate about this issue, most youth turn to their mothers. Often the
talk
is nested in other conversations. This approach may not be the best approach; a heart-to-heart discussion solely about illicit drugs and other substances may be better. UNIT 6. Peers and Youth Culture 27. Global Teen Culture
Does It Exist?, Brand Strategy, January 2003 Teenagers live in a shrinking world. While some of their interests
such as rap music and video games
seem particularly unique to this age group and especially to American youth, more teens around the world are seeking the same youth culture as well as products related to it. Marketers, in fact, are hoping to penetrate the teen consumer marketplace in multiple countries with the same universal products. 28. New Research Explores Effects of Rap Music on Adolescents, The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter, June 2003 Is rap music good or bad? In other words, what influence do the titillating words of rap music have on youths and their peer culture? Several studies are highlighted in this report. The music that adolescents listen to has both bad and good effects in that it helps form the communal environment they share with one another. 29. Close Online Relationships in a National Sample of Adolescents, Janis Wolak, Kimberly J. Mitchell, and David Finkelhor, Adolescence, Fall 2002 This excellent research article discusses the number of teens online as well as whether the teens have met face-to-face with their online associates. This article also elucidates who the associates are and whether these internet contacts have resulted in good or bad experiences for the teens. UNIT 7. Teenage Sexuality 30. The Sex Lives of Teenagers, Lynn Ponton, The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter, October 2001 The author suggests that all teens have sex lives, even if only through fantasy. Ponton discusses teen attitudes toward sex, the culture of teen sexuality, and the impact of risk-taking, and provides a list of questions and topics for adults concerned about teens
sex lives. 31. Know Sexual Identity, Homosexual Adjustment Issues Before Counseling GLBT Youth, Arthur Lipkin, The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter, December 1999 Gay, lesbian, and other adolsecents who are not exclusively heterosexual often feel harassed and stigmatized and therefore experience adjustment problems. Given this, they sometimes turn to an adult
teacher, parent, or counselor
who may not have the skill to assist them. How to help such teens is central to this article. 32. What to Tell Kids About Sex, Kay S. Hymowitz, Public Interest, Fall 2003 Sex education is a controversial subject. Sex education programs have recently morphed into comprehensive sexuality education programs that appear more permissive than earlier programs that emphasized abstinence and conservatism. 33. Q. Should Congress be Giving More Financial Support to Abstinence-Only Sex Education? YES: Abstinence Is Working To Decrease Teen Pregnancy and Is Building Character Among Our Nation
s Youth, Kathleen Tsubata, Insight on the News, November 10, 2003 There are many forces that promote sexuality to teens in this day of HIV. Only abstinence education programs can keep our youth out of harms way. 34. Q. Should Congress Be Giving More Financial Support to Abstinence-Only Sex Education? NO: Withholding Information About Contraception and Teaching Only Abstinence puts Sexually Active Teens at Risk, Cory Richards, Insight on the News, November 10, 2003 This article presents the opposite viewpoint from the previous article. Abstinence programs do not appear to be working. Can it be that we are ignoring the fact that teens are already sexually active and therefore facing associated risks? UNIT 8. Problem Behaviors and Interventions 35. Understanding Adolescent Suicide: A Psychosocial Interpretation of Developmental and Contextual Factors, Pedro R. Portes, Daya S. Sandhu, and Robert Longwell-Grice, Adolescence, Winter 2002 Why adolescent suicide occurs is unknown, although several risk factors have been identified. Perhaps the failure to construct a healthy identity leads to suicide. Portes and his associates explore this idea using Erikson
s theory of identity development. 36. More than Moody: Recognizing and Treating Adolescent Depression, Harold S. Koplewicz, The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter, December 2002 Depression in adults was often misdiagnosed and mistreated in the past. Today, professionals are more aware that adolescents can also suffer from depression. Depression may be a viable explanation for teen violence. 37. Aggression and Antisocial Behavior in Youth, Daniel F. Connor, The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter, September 2002 Violence and aggression in adolescents and children is all too common. The causes are complex and diverse. This article raises the issue of psychopathology as the root cause of such violence. 38. Ecstasy: It
s the Rave, Dixie Dennis and Michael Ballard, The High School Journal, April/May 2002 Use of the drug Ecstasy
which is on the rise
results in physiological and psychological change. High school staff must be aware of this growing trend and recognize both the protective and risk factors among their students. 39. Prevention of Eating Disorders: Tips for Parents: From Anorexia Nervosa and Related Eating Disorders, Inc., The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter, March 2002 We live in a
thin
obsessed world. Eating disorders are striking American teens with alarming frequency. It is much easier to prevent such disorders than it is to cure them. This job usually falls to parents. 40. The Effects of Terrorism on Teens, Perceptions of Dying: The New World is Riskier Than Ever, Bonnie L. Halpern-Felsher and Susan G. Millstein, Journal of Adolescent Health, May 2002 After September 11, 2001, American adults became acutely aware of the risks of dying. The same held true for adolescents. This study shows that fear of terrorist activities heightened fear of other death-related risks in teens. Thus, the researchers found a generalization effect that makes the world seem riskier than ever to our adolescents.