Adolescent vulnerabilities and opportunities : developmental and constructivist perspectives / edited by Eric Amsel, Judith Smetana.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Amsel, Eric, editor.

Smetana, Judith G., 1951- editor.

Series:

Jean Piaget Symposium series ; 38.

Interdisciplinary approaches to knowledge and development : the Jean Piaget symposium series ; 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adolescent psychology.

Adolescence.

Constructivism (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 209 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Adolescent Vulnerabilities & Opportunities

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Summary:

This book explores the central importance of adolescents' own activities in their development. This focus harkens back to Jean Piaget's genetic epistemology and provides a theoretically coherent vision of what makes adolescence a distinctive period of development, with unique opportunities and vulnerabilities. An interdisciplinary and international group of contributors explore how adolescents integrate neurological, cognitive, personal, interpersonal and social systems aspects of development into more organized systems.

Contents:

1. Constructivist processes in adolescent development, Eric Amsel and Judith Smetana

Part I. Biological and Cognitive Perspective

2. Structural brain magnetic resonance imaging of typically developing children and adolescents, Jay N. Giedd, Armin Raznahan, Nancy R. Lee, Catherine Weddle, Maria Liverpool, Michael Stockman, Elizabeth M. Wells, Liv Clasen, Jonathan Blumenthal, Rhoshel K. Lenroot, and Francois Lalonde

3. Adolescent risk taking: a social neuroscience perspective, Laurence Steinberg

4. What are the cognitive skills adolescents need for life in the twenty-first century?, Deanna Kuhn and Amanda Holman

5. Hypothetical thinking in adolescence: its nature, development, and applications, Eric Amsel

Part II. Social and Contextual Perspective

6. Testing, testing: everyday storytelling and the construction of adolescent identity, Avril Thorne and Lauren A. Shapiro

7. Adolescents' social reasoning and relationships with parents: conflicts and coordinations within and across domains, Judith G. Smetana

8. Representations, process and development: a new look at friendship in early adolescence, William M. Bukowski, Melissa Simard, Marie Eve Dubois, and Luz Stella Lopez

9. Schools, peers, and the big picture of adolescent development, Robert Crosnoe

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781139042819 (e-book)

9781107423602 (pbk.)

1-139-12451-X

1-107-22522-1

1-283-29600-4

1-139-12286-X

9786613296009

1-139-11712-2

1-139-12778-0

1-139-11276-7

1-139-04281-5

1-139-11495-6

OCLC:

769341768