Overview
- Takes a broad approach to describing girls’ development and problems – as children, teenagers, and as adult women
- Provides a longitudinal, research-into-practice perspective on girls’ development, from childhood to adulthood, with an emphasis on adolescence
- Offers high-quality empirical longitudinal studies by well-known authors within their respective fields
- Describes girls’ life situations in a Scandinavian country with a reputation of gender equality and high standard of living
Part of the book series: Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development (ARAD)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Until recently, boys and men provided the template by which problem behaviors in girls and women were measured. With the shift to studying female development and adjustment through female perspectives comes a need for knowledge of trajectories of at-risk girls’ behavior as they mature. Girls at Risk: Swedish Longitudinal Research on Adjustment fills this gap accessibly and compassionately. Its lifespan approach relates the pathologies of adolescence to later outcomes as girls grow up to have relationships, raise families, and take on adult roles in society.
Coverage is balanced between internalizing behaviors, traditionally considered to be more common among females, and externalizing ones, more common among males. The book's detailed review of findings includes several major longitudinal studies of normative and clinical populations, and the possibility of early maturation as a risk factor for pathology is discussed in depth. Contributors not only emphasize "what works" in intervention and prevention but also identify emerging issues in assessment and treatment. An especially powerful concluding chapter raises serious questions about how individuals in the healing professions perceive their mission, and their clients. Although the studies are from one country—Sweden—the situations, and their potential for successful intervention, transcend national boundaries, including:
• Adolescent and adult implications of pubertal timing.
• Eating disorders and self-esteem.
• Prevention of depressive symptoms.
• Understanding violence in girls with substance problems.
• Lifespan continuity in female aggression and violence.
• A life-course perspective in girls' criminality.
With insights beyond the beaten path, Girls at Risk provides a wealth of information for researchers, clinicians and related professionals, and graduate students in child and school psychology; psychiatry; education;social work; psychotherapy and counseling; and public health.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“Examining the lives of at-risk girls is an important undertaking. Anna-karin Andershed takes on this challenge in her edited volume, Girls at Risk: Swedish Longitudinal Research on Adjustment. In it, she includes a collection of studies conducted by scholars who focus on girls’ involvement in aggression and violent behavior. The target audience includes researchers, clinicians, and other practitioners who work with high-risk females.” (Norman A. White, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 58 (45), November, 2013)Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Anna-Karin Andershed, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer in psychology at Örebro University, Sweden. Her current research interests are adjustment and socialization processes from a life-span perspective with a special focus on girls and women, the development of antisocial behavior and aggression, structured assessment of risk and protective factors, and interventions, where she combines basic and applied research. She is the PI of two large scale longitudinal projects – the IDA program and the SOFIA study, and has developed an instrument for structured assessment of children with or at risk for normbreaking behavior, ESTER-assessment. She is also currently the Head of the School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences at Örebro University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Girls at Risk
Book Subtitle: Swedish Longitudinal Research on Adjustment
Editors: Anna-Karin Andershed
Series Title: Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4130-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-4129-8Published: 04 August 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-0211-8Published: 19 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-4130-4Published: 04 August 2012
Series ISSN: 2195-089X
Series E-ISSN: 2195-0903
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 190
Topics: Child and School Psychology, Psychiatry, Education, general, Social Work, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Medicine/Public Health, general