Predatory Priests, Silenced Victims
The sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church captured headlines and mobilized public outrage in January 2002. But much of the commentary that immediately followed was reductionistic, focusing on single "causes" of clerical abuse such as mandatory celibacy, homosexuality, sexual repressiveness or sexual permissiveness, anti-Catholicism, and a decadent secular culture. Predatory Priests, Silenced Victims: The Sexual Abuse Crisis and the Catholic Church, a collection of groundbreaking articles...
Dieser Band vereinigt Aufsatze, die sich mit dem Phanomen des Psycho-Somatischen Zirkels und den entsprechend komplexen Krankheitserscheinungen befassen. Carmen Obernosterer beschaftigt sich mit dem rapiden Anstieg der Bulimia nervosa und zeigt auf, dass ein rein symptomologischer Behandlungsansatz scheitern muss. Die Studie -Coping with Cancer- von Dominik Stuckler befasst sich mit Krankheitsbewaltigungsstrategien von Mammakarzinompatientinnen. Der Beitrag von Karl Baier unterzieht die korperli...
Diese Studie befasst sich mit einem Grundthema der Psychologie, der Dynamik von Annaherung und Vermeidung. Die momentane theoretische Orientierung postuliert, dass lediglich ein Hemmungssystem das Verhalten bei der Konfrontation mit unbekannten Objekten, seien sie sozialer oder nicht sozialer Art, reguliert. In der Arbeit wird der Frage nachgegangen, ob zwischen der Gehemmtheit in sozialen Situationen und der Gehemmtheit im Umgang mit unbekannten Objekten unterschieden werden muss. Durch die Ana...
Offers advice to help parents guide teenage girls to recognize and reject perfectionist messages that lead to self-doubt, unfulfilling relationships, and fears of failure, and teach them self-compassion, how to take healthy risks, and the importance of finding support.
In recent years, dating and romantic partners have been recognized as important peer relations within adolescence and research in this area is just emerging. Peer groups and peer pressure are more well established areas of research into adolescence, with recent studies focusing on peer groups and anti-social behaviour. The book will be the first in a series of three that examines the latest research in key areas of developmental psychology, edited by Rutger Engels and Hakan Stattin. This volume...
Exploring the role of imagination in trauma recovery, the author shares the arresting dreams and stories of traumatized adolescents. Describing the impact of trauma on adolescent health and development, the author provides promising research into the use of breathing skills, HRV Biofeedback, and dream work to promote healthy breathing, emotion regulation, and restorative dreaming. Research suggests that these interventions can decrease post-traumatic distress and assist in the creation of meanin...
Children and Crime offers a multidisciplinary and research-based approach to the study of child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency. Connie M. Tang first examines children as victims of maltreatment, exploring how developmental trauma and societal factors influence children’s behavior and psyche. Topics covered include child neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and psychological abuse. Later chapters address how children come into conflict with the law and discuss gang membership and substan...
Children today are digital natives, growing up in an age where social media and online communication is the norm. This book is an indispensable guide for parents who may feel they are struggling to keep up, addressing the issues that young people and their families face in the world of modern technology. Suzie Hayman, a parenting counsellor, and John Coleman, a distinguished psychologist, use their combined expertise to explore the challenges and possibilities of being constantly connected, help...
Adolescence in Pacific Island Societies
A ground-breaking comparative study of adolescence, Adolescence in Pacific Island Societies examines how biology, culture, and adolescence interact in the rapidly changing Pacific Islands, and question the relationship of social change and adolescent experience.
The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence
by Professor Richard O Straub
An in-depth exploration of the relationship between adolescent risk-taking and peer group culture, based on extensive interviews with teens themselves, this elegantly written book shows that taking risks is a natural and necessary part of growing up. The author proposes that risks are declarations of the self, worn like badges of autonomy, or defiance, or group membership. With a broad interpretive approach locating human action within the symbolic forms, communicative practices, and shared idio...
Stress. Fatigue. Depression. Sleeping problems. Issues with focus and concentration. Headaches. Substance abuse. These are all very common problems that teenagers have to deal with. It turns out that rather than just sending kids to therapy or giving them some prescriptions for medication, there are many alternative therapies available that have evidence-based track records of success. This book presents therapies based around the five senses—including aromatherapy, yoga, sound/music therapy—to...
Adolescence now lasts longer than ever before. And as world-renowned expert on adolescent psychology Dr. Laurence Steinberg argues, this makes these years the key period in determining individuals' life outcomes, demanding that we change the way we parent, educate, and understand young people. In Age of Opportunity, Steinberg leads readers through a host of new findings - including groundbreaking original research - that reveal what the new timetable of adolescence means for parenting 13-year-ol...
The result of a study that followed hundreds of teen-aged girls for three years, this book reveals the subtleties, the complexities, and the realities of girls’ ideas about their shapes, eating habits, and physical ideals. Nichter uses an engaging narrative style to explore the influence of peers, family, and media on girls’ sense of self.
A Dynamic Systems Approach to Adolescent Development (Studies in Adolescent Development)
The dynamic systems approach is a rapidly expanding advancement in the study of developmental research, particularly in the domain of adolescent development. It provides a unique way of examining the subject, and this innovative study of developmental processes helps social scientists to translate dynamic systems conceptualizations into clear empirical research that readers will be able to implement themselves. The first part of this edited book discusses techniques that describe and assess sp...
Narcissism and Machiavellianism in Youth
Narcissism and Machiavellianism in Youth highlights how knowledge of both narcissism and Machiavellianism may influence problematic youth social interactions as well as youth adaptation to developmental contexts such as peer relationships. The book brings together for the first time scholars who have empirically examined the emotional, social, and behavioral correlates of these constructs in youth.