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Title Girls at risk : Swedish longitudinal research on adjustment / Anna-Karin Andershed, editor
Published New York, NY : Springer, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Advancing responsible adolescent development
Advancing responsible adolescent development.
Contents Girls at Risk in Their Own Right / Anna-Karin Andershed -- Adolescent and Adult Implications of Girls' Pubertal Timing / Therése Skoog -- Eating Disorders and Self-Esteem / Elisabeth Welch and Ata Ghaderi -- Prevention of Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescent Girls / Britt-Marie Treutiger and Lene Lindberg -- Understanding Violence in Girls with Substance Misuse Problems / Bonamy R. Oliver and Sheilagh Hodgins -- Life-Span Continuity in Female Aggression and Violence / Anna-Karin Andershed and Debra J. Pepler -- A Life-Course Perspective on Girls' Criminality / Frida Andersson, Sten Levander and Marie Torstensson Levander -- What Works for Girls with Conduct Problems? / Pia Enebrink -- The Trouble with "Troubled Girls" / Margareta Hydén and Carolina Øverlien.006m o d
Summary Until recently, boys and men provided the template by which problem behaviors in girls and women were measured. With the shift to studying female development and adjustment through female perspectives comes a need for knowledge of trajectories of at-risk girls' behavior as they mature. Girls at Risk: Swedish Longitudinal Research on Adjustment fills this gap accessibly and compassionately. Its lifespan approach relates the pathologies of adolescence to later outcomes as girls grow up to have relationships, raise families, and take on adult roles in society. Coverage is balanced between internalizing behaviors, traditionally considered to be more common among females, and externalizing ones, more common among males. The book's detailed review of findings includes several major longitudinal studies of normative and clinical populations, and the possibility of early maturation as a risk factor for pathology is discussed in depth. Contributors not only emphasize "what works" in intervention and prevention but also identify emerging issues in assessment and treatment. An especially powerful concluding chapter raises serious questions about how individuals in the healing professions perceive their mission, and their clients. Although the studies are from one country--Sweden--the situations, and their potential for successful intervention, transcend national boundaries, including: - Adolescent and adult implications of pubertal timing. - Eating disorders and self-esteem. - Prevention of depressive symptoms. - Understanding violence in girls with substance problems. - Lifespan continuity in female aggression and violence. - A life-course perspective in girls' criminality. With insights beyond the beaten path, Girls at Risk provides a wealth of information for researchers, ¡clinicians and related¡professionals, and graduate students¡in child and school psychology; psychiatry; education; social work; psychotherapy and counseling; and public health. ¡
Analysis Philosophy (General)
Medicine
Psychiatry
Social work
Applied psychology
Developmental psychology
Child and School Psychology
Psychotherapy and Counseling
Medicine/Public Health, general
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
In Springer eBooks
Subject Teenage girls -- Psychology
Adjustment (Psychology) in adolescence.
Adolescent psychology.
Adaptability (Psychology)
Social adjustment.
Psychology, Adolescent
Adaptation, Psychological
Social Adjustment
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- Adolescence.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- Teenagers.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- Adolescent.
Social adjustment
Adolescent psychology
Adaptability (Psychology)
Adjustment (Psychology) in adolescence
Teenage girls -- Psychology
medicines (material)
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Andershed, Anna-Karin.
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