Adolescent vulnerabilities and opportunities developmental and constructivist perspectives

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Amsel, Eric (-), Smetana, Judith G., 1951-
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : CUP 2011.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Jean Piaget Symposium series ; 38.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798116606719
Table of 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.