At the threshold : the developing adolescent / edited by S. Shirley Feldman and Glen R. Elliott.
Contributor(s): Feldman, S. Shirley | Elliott, Glen R.
Material type: BookPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 1990 (1997)Description: x, 642 p. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0674050363 (pbk); 0674050355 (v) (hbk).Subject(s): Adolescence | Adolescent psychology | PubertyDDC classification: 305.235Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 305.235 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00077587 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-627) and index.
Capturing the adolescent experience / Glen R. Elliott and S. Shirley Feldman -- I. Basic Foundations -- The role of pubertal processes / Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Edward O. Reiter -- Adolescent thinking / Daniel P. Keating -- II. Contexts -- Historical perspectives / John Modell and Madeline Goodman -- Challenges in studying minority youth / Margaret Beale Spencer and Sanford M. Dornbusch -- Coming of age in a changing family system / Frank F. Furstenberg -- Peer groups and peer cultures / B. Bradford Brown -- Schools and the adolescent / Doris R. Entwisle -- Leisure, work and the mass media / Gary Alan Fine, Jeylan T. Mortimer and Donald F. Roberts -- III. Psychological issues -- Autonomy, conflict and harmony in the family relationship / Laurence Steinberg -- Friendship and peer relations / Ritch C. Savin-Williams and Thomas J. Berndt -- Motivation and achievement / Valanne L. Henderson and Carol S. Dweck -- Sexuality / Herant Katchadourian -- Self and identity development / Susan Harter -- Stress, coping and adaptation / Stuart T. Hauser and Mary Kay Bowlds -- Problem behaviors / Joan McCord -- Adolescent health / Susan G. Millstein and Iris F. Litt -- Youth in relation to social institutions / Judith Torney-Purta -- Progress and promise of research on adolescence / S. Shirley Feldman and Glen R, Elliott.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 1 Capturing the Adolescent Experience
- Part 1 Basic Foundations
- 2 The Role of Pubertal Processes
- 3 Adolescent Thinking
- Part 2 Contexts
- 4 Historical Perspectives
- 5 Challenges in Studying Minority Youth
- 6 Coming of Age in a Changing Family System
- 7 Peer Groups and Peer Cultures
- 8 Schools and the Adolescent
- 9 Leisure, Work, and the Mass Media
- Part 3 Psychosoical Issues
- 10 Autonomy, Conflict, and Harmony in the Family Relationship
- 11 Friendship and Peer Relations
- 12 Motivation and Achievement
- 13 Sexuality
- 14 Self and Identity Development
- 15 Stress, Coping. And Adaptation
- 16 Problems Behaviors
- 17 Adolescent Health
- 18 Youth in Relation to Social Institutions
- 19 Progress and Promise of Research on Adolescence
- Reference
- Contributors
- Index