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This book paints a portrait of adolescent psychology in 4 major regions: Africa/the Middle East, Asia, the Americas, and Europe. Featuring 24 revised and updated chapters from the International Encyclopedia of Adolescence (2007), readers are introduced to the way the majority of the world's adolescents actually live. Most contributors are indigenous to the country they review. As a whole the book paints an engaging panorama of adolescent life around the world, broadening students' cultural perspective. All chapters follow the same template to make it easier to compare topics across countries: Background (including demographics, ethnic diversity, and political system), Period of Adolescence, Beliefs, Gender, the Self, Family Relationships, Friends and Peers/Youth Culture, Love and Sexuality, Health Risk Behavior, Education, Work, Media, Politics and Military, and Unique Issues. Each chapter contains a map and photos and a list of references and suggested readings. The introductory chapter explains why the countries were selected and introduces the book's common themes. The section on Africa and the Middle East introduces students to teen life in Cameroon, one of the few places left where adolescents go through formal puberty rituals. In addition, readers learn about adolescent life in Ethiopia, Israel, Morocco, Nigeria, and Sudan. Next we travel to Asia -- China, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Here readers see how economic growth in India and China is creating opportunities for young people. In The Americas, readers are introduced to life in Argentina, Canada, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and the United States. -- Book Description.

Children and adolescents facing mental health issues and disabilities require early identification and intervention for a brighter future. However, there is a pressing need for comprehensive resources that bring together the latest research, evidence-based practices, and multidisciplinary perspectives to address the diverse challenges in this field. This is where the Handbook of Research on Child and Adolescent Psychology Practices and Interventions steps in to offer an invaluable solution. This groundbreaking handbook aims to fill the gap in knowledge by presenting a wide range of topics, from affective disorders to global crises in child and adolescent mental health. With contributions from leading experts, practitioners, and researchers, the book offers multidimensional insights and evidence-based strategies to empower mental health practitioners, academicians, researchers, and students. The book not only emphasizes the importance of early screening, identification, assessment, diagnosis, and intervention, but also highlights the vital role of parents, caregivers, and teachers in the sustainable rehabilitation of children and adolescents. By equipping readers with drill practices and cognitive training programs tailored to the plasticity of young brains, this book lays the groundwork for positively changing the storyline of mental health issues and disabilities, even for the youngest patients. With its comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach, the Handbook of Research on Child and Adolescent Psychology Practices and Interventions serves as a cogent solution to the challenges faced in the field. By providing a wealth of evidence-based practices, cutting-edge research, and practical insights, this book empowers professionals and organizations to make a lasting impact on the mental well-being of children and adolescents. It is a must-have resource for anyone committed to improving the lives of young individuals and lessening the burden on caregivers

"The Handbook of Research on Child and Adolescent Psychology Practices and Interventions offers a crucial solution to the pressing need for comprehensive resources in the field of child and adolescent mental health. Edited by esteemed scholar Sanjeev Gupta from the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, this groundbreaking handbook brings together the latest research, evidence-based practices, and multidisciplinary perspectives to address the diverse challenges faced by children and adolescents. From affective disorders to global crises in mental health, the book covers a wide range of topics, providing multidimensional insights and empowering strategies for mental health practitioners, academicians, researchers, and students"--

"The Handbook of Research on Child and Adolescent Psychology Practices and Interventions offers a crucial solution to the pressing need for comprehensive resources in the field of child and adolescent mental health. Edited by esteemed scholar Sanjeev Gupta from the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, this groundbreaking handbook brings together the latest research, evidence-based practices, and multidisciplinary perspectives to address the diverse challenges faced by children and adolescents. From affective disorders to global crises in mental health, the book covers a wide range of topics, providing multidimensional insights and empowering strategies for mental health practitioners, academicians, researchers, and students.With a strong emphasis on early identification and intervention, the handbook highlights the vital role of parents, caregivers, and teachers in the sustainable rehabilitation of young individuals. It equips readers with drill practices and cognitive training programs tailored to the plasticity of young brains, setting the stage for positive changes in the natural history of mental health issues and disabilities, starting from the earliest weeks or months of life. By offering evidence-based practices, cutting-edge research, and practical insights, this comprehensive and multidisciplinary resource empowers professionals and organizations to make a lasting impact on the mental well-being of children and adolescents, ultimately reducing the burden on caregivers. The Handbook of Research on Child and Adolescent Psychology Practices and Interventions is an essential tool for anyone dedicated to improving the lives of young individuals and advancing the field of child and adolescent mental health."--

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The relevance of child and adolescent psychology to social work -- Key learning outcomes -- Introduction -- The importance of child and adolescent psychology to social work -- Relationship-based practice in working with children and families -- The role of psychological knowledge in social work practice -- Inter-agency working -- Book outline -- Summary -- Further resources -- 2 Emotional development and attachment -- Key learning outcomes -- Introduction -- Theoretical perspectives on emotional development -- Nature and nurture in emotional development -- Voice of the child: Les -- Emotional development and attachment -- Theoretical perspectives on attachment: Attachment theory -- Voice of the child: Kerry, ex-foster child -- What is attachment and how is it developed? -- How is the quality of attachment relationship measured? -- Voice of the child: Kerry, ex-foster child -- Attachment and influences on attachments across the lifespan -- Influences of early attachments through the lifespan -- Childhood -- Adolescence -- Romantic relationships -- Attachment continuity -- Attachment and culture -- Interconnectedness of developmental dimensions: Emotional development and disabled children -- Summary -- Further resources -- 3 Cognitive development -- Key learning outcomes -- Introduction -- Theoretical perspectives in understanding cognitive development -- Piaget's stage theory of cognitive development -- Vygotsky's socio-cultural theory -- Parents and carers with learning disabilities -- Summary -- Further resources -- 4 Social development: From childhood to adolescence -- Key learning outcomes -- Introduction -- Adolescence: 'Storm and stress'? -- Brain and cognitive development -- Attachment in adolescence: From parents to peers -- Cross-cultural perspectives on adolescence.

AbstractA public discourse of "youth crisis" emerged in 1930s Egypt, partly as a response to the widespread student demonstrations of 1935 and 1936 that ushered in the figure of youth as an insurgent subject of politics. The fear of youth as unbridled political and sexual subjects foreshadowed the emergence of a discourse of adolescent psychology. By the mid-1940s, "adolescence" had been transformed into a discrete category of analysis within the newly consolidated disciplinary space of psychology and was reconfigured as a psychological stage of social adjustment, sexual repression, and existential anomie. Adolescence—perceived as both a collective temporality and a depoliticized individual interiority—became a volatile stage linked to a psychoanalytic notion of sexuality as libidinal raw energy, displacing other collective temporalities and geographies. New discursive formations, for example, of a psychology centered on unconscious sexual impulses and a cavernous interiority, and new social types, such as the "juvenile delinquent," coalesced around the figure of adolescence in postwar Egypt.

As our world becomes increasingly permeable, and as human populations are rapidly converging and transitioning within a global interconnectedness, it is vital that we look to, and learn from, those most adept at the adaptation, creation, and contesting of culture: adolescents. This text is designed to bridge critical gaps in the understanding of the daily lives, identity development, and experiences of adolescents in diverse cultures around the world. Cultural context is predictive of developmental uniqueness; comparisons provide insights into how social structures and relationships influence