Adolescence in the 21st century : constants and challenges

• Other Authors: Spielhagen, Frances R., 1946- (Editor), Schwartz, Paul D. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2014.
• Subjects: Adolescence > History > 21st century.; Adolescent development > History > 21st century.; Adolescent psychology > History > 21st century.; Family & Relationships > Life Stages > Adolescence.; Funding of education and student finance.; Teenagers: advice for parents.; Age groups: adolescents.; Relating to adolescence, teenage years.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806613083
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-62396-498-6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 245 pages) : illustrations

What is wrong with young people today? This question has captured the concerns of the older generation about the habits and attitudes of the adolescents in their midst. The assumption is that there is indeed something wrong with young people. Even Plato must have rolled his eyes, as he relates his d...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword: Adolescence in the 21st century / David Elkind
• Preface / Frances R. Spielhagen, and Paul D. Schwartz
• Part I. Examining the adolescent in the 21st century / Frances R. Spielhagen, and Paul D. Schwartz
• Chapter 1. Seeking the right fit: From training bras to self-identity as adolescents search for self / Susan Riemer Sacks
• Chapter 2. "talk to me...": Communication between mothers and young adolescent daughters / Debra A. Hrelic
• Chapter 3. Parental religiosity and adolescent educational attainment: The role of non-cognitive skills / Gregory M. Eirich
• Chapter 4. Adolescent literacy development and the new literacies: Challenges and possibilities / J. David Gallagher
• Chapter 5. Socio-psychological problems among youth in Russia in the new millennium / Olga E. Lomakina and Tatiana I. Gustomyasova
• Part II. Constants: Purpose, agency, and motivation / Frances R. Spielhagen
• Chapter 6. Service-learning as a tool for developing emerging adults into productive employees and citizens / Moira Tolan
• Chapter 7. Doing social justice: The myti program and inner city students / Rosaria Caporrimo and David Kerner
• Chapter 8. Adolescents with autism spectrum disorder / Irene Van Riper
• Chapter 9. Education of peacemakers: Raising college students' awareness of and respect for the 'other' / Diane Bliss and Margaret Murphy
• Part III. Challenges: Emerging adulthood / Paul D. Schwartz
• Chapter 10. The challenge of acceptance: Digitalk and language as conformity and resistance / Kristen Hawley Turner
• Chapter 11. Homeless adolescent mothers: Engaging strengths emergent in parenthood / Marina Mazur, Alexandra Jordan, Aurelie Athan, Lisa Miller
• Chapter 12. Prenatal cocaine exposure--two decades later: A case study / Rae Fallon
• Chapter 13. My body, my biography: The use of narratives of self-injury as a path to wholeness / Susan A. Conte
• Chapter 14. Music and emotion regulation among emerging adults / Janice C. Stapley.