1st Edition

Adolescent Stress Causes and Consequences

By Mary Colten Copyright 1991
    342 Pages
    by Routledge

    342 Pages
    by Routledge

    Adolescent Stress concentrates on a range of major problems—those of a normal developmental nature as well as those of poor adaptation—identified in adolescents.

    1: Introduction: Adolescent Stress, Social Relationships, and Mental Health; I: Editors’ Overview Development , Stress and Relationships; 2: Anger, Worry, and Hurt in Early Adolescence: An Enlarging World of Negative Emotions; Conflict and Adaptation in Adolescence: Adolescent-Parent Conflict; 4: Psychosocial Stress during Adolescence: Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Processes; II: Editors’ Overview Sources of Variation in Stress and Stress Responses; 5: Coping with Adolescence; 6: Stressful Events and Their Correlates among Adolescents of Diverse Backgrounds; 7: How Stressful Is the Transition to Adolescence for Girls?; III: Editors’ Overview Youth at High Risk: The Social Situation and Mental Health of Adolescents Under Adversity; 8: The Patterning of Distress and Disorder in a Community Sample of High School Aged Youth; 9: Minority Youths at High Risk: Gay Males and Runaways; 10: Childhood Victimization: Risk Factor for Delinquency; 11: Psychoactive Substance Use and Adolescent Pregnancy: Compounded Risk among Inner City Adolescent Mothers; 12: Stress in Mentally Retarded Children and Adolescents; IV: Editors’ Overview Strategies for Intervention; 13: A Multilevel Action-Research Perspective on Stress-Related Interventions; 14: Social Support in Adolescence

    Biography

    Mary Colten