Adolescents embody the best hopes of American society. Their vital role in shaping our future lends particular significance to their success in negotiating the passage from childhood to adulthood, while their intensity and visibility often make them barometers of social change. It is all the more remarkable, then, that this critical period has only recently captured the full attention of researchers.
At the Threshold presents the long-awaited findings of the Carnegie Foundation study on adolescence. It offers a comprehensive overview of what investigators are learning about normal development and provides an interdisciplinary synthesis of research into the biological, social, and psychological changes occurring during this key stage in the life span. While focusing on the contexts of adolescent life-social and ethnic, family and school, leisure and work-it also addresses how researchers are doing in the effort to understand the intersection of processes that initiate and sustain adolescent development and to characterize the extraordinary changes that occur during these years.
Contrary to popular belief, large numbers of young people continue to mature into productive members of society. At the Threshold seeks to allow professionals and nonprofessionals alike important access to the reality of normal adolescent experience. The authors recognize that only if we begin to understand and clearly articulate the parameters of successful adolescent development can we hope to intervene with those individuals whose lives seem aimed toward unsatisfactory futures.
By:
S. Shirley Feldman,
Glen R. Elliott
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 35mm
Weight: 798g
ISBN: 9780674050365
ISBN 10: 0674050363
Pages: 656
Publication Date: 01 January 1993
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
1. Capturing the Adolescent Experience Glen R. Elliott and S. Shirley Feldman PART 1: BASIC FOUNDATIONS 2. The Role of Pubertal Processes Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Edward O. Reiter 3. Adolescent Thinking Daniel P. Keating PART 2: CONTEXTS 4. Historical Perspectives John Modell and Madeline Goodman 5. Challenges in Studying Minority Youth Margaret Beale Spencer and Sanford M. Dornbusch 6. Coming of Age in a Changing Family System Frank F. Furstenburg 7. Peer Groups and Peer Cultures B. Brandford Brown 8. Schools and the Adolescent Doris R. Entwisle 9. Leisure, Work, and the Mass Media Gary Alan Fine, Jeylan T. Mortimer, and Donald F. Roberts PART 3: PSYCHOSOICAL ISSUES 10. Autonomy, Conflict, and Harmony in the Family Relationship Laurence Steinberg 11. Friendship and Peer Relations Ritch C. Savin-Williams and Thomas J. Berndt 12. Motivation and Achievement Valanne L. Henderson and Carol S. Dweck 13. Sexuality Herant Katchadourian 14. Self and Identity Development Susan Harter 15. Stress, Coping. And Adaptation Stuart T. Hauser and Mary Kay Bowlds 16. Problems Behaviors Joan McCord 17. Adolescent Health Susan G. Millstein and Iris F. Litt 18. Youth in Relation to Social Institutions Judith Torney-Purta 19. Progress and Promise of Research on Adolescence S. Shirley Feldman and Glen R. Elliot Reference Contributors Index
S. Shirley Feldman is Professor of Human Biology and Senior Research Scientist in Child Psychiatry at Stanford University and Deputy Director of the Stanford Center for the Study of Families, Children, and Youth. Glen R. Elliott is Associate Professor and Director of Child and Adolescent Psychology, University of California, San Francisco.
Reviews for At the Threshold: The Developing Adolescent
An impressive and useful volume that will have a major impact on the field. -- Dale A. Blyth, Executive Secretary, Society for Research on Adolescence, and Director, American Medical Association Center for Adolescent Health Analysis
