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Adolescent Development: The Essential Readings

ISBN: 978-0-631-21743-5

December 1999

Wiley-Blackwell

360 pages

Description
Adolescent Development: The Essential Readings provides students with a selection of some of the key articles by key researchers in this fast growing area of developmental psychology.
About the Author
The editor is Professor of Family Relations and Human Development at the University of Guelph, Canada. he is a fellow of both the American Psychological Society and American Psychological Association and is co-editor of the forthcoming Blackwell Handbook of Adolescence.
Features

  • Adolescent Development guides the reader throughout the maze of issues that emerge in the transition from childhood to adulthood.

  • Each article is introduced by the editor, and contextualized within the wider debate of developmental psychology and the area of adolescence in particular.

  • The individual studies represent some of the most compelling current science that focuses on adolescence.

  • The readings will stimulate thoughts about the study of adolescence and push forward the reader's understanding of ideas of adolescence.