Girls at Risk Swedish Longitudinal Research on Adjustment /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Andershed, Anna-Karin (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development
• Subjects: Psychology.; Medicine.; Psychiatry.; Education.; Social work.; Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Child and School Psychology.; Education, general.; Social Work.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.; Medicine/Public Health, general.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Girls at Risk in their own Right; Anna-Karin Andershed
• Chapter 2. Adolescent and Adult Implications of Girls’ Pubertal Timing; Therése Skoog
• Chapter 3. Eating Disorders and Self-Esteem; Elisabeth Welch, Ata Ghaderi; Chapter 4. Prevention of Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescent Girls; Britt-Marie Treutiger, Lene Lindberg
• Chapter 5. Understanding Violence in Girls With Substance Misuse Problems; Bonamy R. Oliver, Sheilagh Hodgins
• Chapter 6. Life-Span Continuity in Female Aggression and Violence; Anna-Karin Andershed, Debra J. Pepler
• Chapter 7. A Life Course Perspective on Girls’ Criminality; Marie Torstensson Levander, Frida Andersson, Sten Levander
• Chapter 8. What Works For Girls With Conduct Problems?; Pia Enebrink
• Chapter 9. The Trouble With “Troubled Girls”; Margareta Hydén, Carolina Øverlien.