Understanding Girls' Problem Behavior: How Girls' Delinquency Develops in the Context of Maturity and Health, Co-occurring Problems, and Relationships (Hot Topics in Developmental Research - A Series of Three Edited Volumes, #8) (Hot Topics in Developmental Research)

Margaret Kerr (Editor), Hakan Stattin (Editor), Rutger C. M. E. Engels (Editor), Geertjan Overbeek (Editor), Anna-Karin Andershed (Editor), and Håkan Stattin (Editor)

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Understanding Girls' Problem Behavior presents an overview of recent studies by leading researchers into key aspects of the development of problem behavior in girls.

  • Integrates interdisciplinary research into girls’ problem behaviors (e.g. aggression, antisocial behavior, rule breaking)
  • Unique in seeking to understand girls' problem behaviors in their own right
  • Follows the maturing girl from adolescence to adulthood, concluding at the point where she herself becomes a parent and forms new relationships
  • Gives attention to the critical contexts of problem behavior development—society and neighborhood, as well as family and peer contexts
  • ISBN13 9781119996071
  • Publish Date 23 May 2011 (first published 29 November 2010)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Imprint Standards Information Network