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By Julie Anne Laser MSW LCSW PhD, Nicole Nicotera MSW PhD, Jeffrey M. Jenson PhD

ISBN-10: 1609180356

ISBN-13: 9781609180355

A cutting-edge practitioner source and path textual content, this booklet presents a entire view of adolescent improvement and spells out potent how one can aid young people who're having problems. The authors light up protecting and hazard elements within the many contexts of teenagers' lives, from person attributes to kin, college, local, and media affects. An ecological point of view is utilized to realizing and addressing particular adolescent demanding situations, together with substance abuse, sexual identification concerns, psychological illnesses, dicy sexual habit, and delinquency. during the ebook, straight forward overview and intervention options are illustrated with wealthy case examples.

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Many of the long-time town residents of Clarkson support this declaration. As a result, the Fugees team has not been able to practice for 3 weeks, and one of the most important games of the season takes place next week. 6 T H EO R E T I C A L F R A M E W O R K A traditional approach to the assessment of Shahir tends toward exploration of the psychological factors that might be influencing Shahir’s current behavioral challenges. These could include behavioral reactions to depressive or anxious thoughts: • If the anniversary of his mother’s death is not far off.

A physician should also be involved since this disorder can result in death in extreme circumstances. Most recently, Internet anorexia blogs have developed that support this disordered thinking by giving young women techniques to further restrict calories. These sites have been extremely destructive to young women with eating disorders. Practitioners should inquire where the adolescent is obtaining information about nutrition. Clients with anorexia The Push–Pull of Adolescent Development 19 who are struggling to control their weight may hide the extent of their weight loss by wearing baggy clothes and lie about the amount of food they are consuming, or the amount of time they are spending exercising.

Therefore, from a neuroscience perspective, cognitive interventions that change the youth’s risk-­t aking behavior will not work because the behavior is a function of an incompletely developed brain. What will work from a neuroscience perspective to reduce risk taking is to change the environment where the youth lives. ), and more organized 18 T H EO R E T I C A L F R A M E W O R K school activities. Additionally, legislative initiatives such as graduated driver’s licenses, disallowing cell phone texting while driving, reducingoff campus privileges to underclassmen, and enforcing curfews have been helpful in decreasing risk-­t aking behavior (Steinberg).

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