Research Catalog

Title

Transition to adulthood [electronic resource] : action, projects, and counseling / Richard A. Young ... [et al.].

Publication

New York : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, c2011.

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Additional Authors

• Young, Richard A.
• SpringerLink (Online service)

Description

ix, 235 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

The transition to adulthood involves, for most individuals, moving from school to work, establishment of long-term relationships, possibly parenting, and a number of other psychosocial transformations. Now more than ever, there is a concern within popular and research literature about children growing up too soon or too late or failing to realize changes associated with being adult. With this in mind, this book intends to answer a series of timely questions in regard to transition to adulthood and propose a wholly new approach to counseling that enables youth to engage fully in their lives and.

Subject

• Adolescent psychology
• Teenagers > Counseling of

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-230) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface; Contents; 1 Transition to Adulthood: Introduction; 2 Transition to Adulthood as Goal-Directed Action; 3 Action and the Practice of Counseling for Transitions; 4 Studying Transition Processes; 5 Relationships; 6 Emotion and the Transition to Adulthood; 7 Identity; 8 Family; 9 Work; 10 Culture; 11 Romantic Relationships; 12 Transition in the Context of Disability; 13 Suicide in the Context of the Transition to Adulthood; 14 Working with Narrative and Interpretation; 15 Using the Self-Confrontation Procedure in Counseling; References; Index.

ISBN

• 9781441962386
• 1441962387
• 9781441962379

OCLC

• 669989608
• SCSB-11999368

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library