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Adolescence, risk and resilience: against the odds
- Editors:
- COLEMAN John, HAGELL Ann, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- John Wiley and Sons
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 205p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
This book considers a range of disadvantages that may impact on adolescents and suggests ways to overcome them. It is about demonstrating a positive approach to young people and their circumstances and shows how the concepts of risk and resilience are related. Contributors examine: the nature of risk and resilience in adolescence; the role of the family; growing up in substitute care; sex and risk; mental health and mental disorders; young disabled people; anti-social behaviour; social exclusion, risk and young adulthood.