Description:
Traditionally the subject of adolescent development has been explored using a stage based approach, with the potential pitfalls and upsets of adolescence often focussed upon. In this book the authors draw on a wealth of research to examine the period of development from adolescence to adulthood using a dynamic system approach; examining realistic, multi-variable explanations to the transitions and consequent transformations that occur in young people as they face this time of their life.
The book considers the social institutions, interactions, contexts and relationships that interact and influence each other in normal positive development.
Review Quotes:
"Overall, this book is an important contribution to the ongoing debate about how to study human development. It provides a corrective to psychology's neglect of processes and traditional emphasis on linear causality." - PsycCRITIQUES, February 2016 (Vol. 61, No. 6)
"Each chapter of this book contributes evidence for why dynamic systems are a more adequate way to approach developmental changes in adolescents. In addition, the authors advocate for a more positive view of adolescent behaviors that are normally seen as negative... Overall, the book has an eye-opening perspective that hopefully will make social science researchers think twice before continuing to use their traditional methods."-- Emilia Rodriguez, Adolescent Research Review