Adolescence: A Developmental Transition

by Douglas C. Kimmel and Irving B. Weiner

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Featuring a topically organized introduction to adolescence, this text combines research (from psychology, sociology, anthropology, medicine and biology), theory and practical knowledge. Its approach is multidisciplinary, emphasizing behavioural problems. The book offers balanced critiques of major theoretical and empirical perspectives. Interviews with adolescents provide a sense of reality and individuality via the case study approach. Detailed coverage is provided of loneliness, shyness, bicultural environments, growing up in divorced or reconstituted families, concerns related to homosexuality, contraception, pregnancy, and much more.
  • ISBN10 089859572X
  • ISBN13 9780898595727
  • Publish Date July 1985
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 19 October 2003
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Imprint Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 632
  • Language English