Troubled Youth, Troubled Families: Understanding Families at Risk for Adolescent Maltreatment

by Cynthia Schellenbach (Editor)

Overview

The 1970s witnessed a growing concern and awareness regarding child abuse, an awareness which gradually extended to include the maltreatment of adolescents. In the 1980s a number of intervention projects dealing with this particular problem were started. Troubled Youth, Troubled Families is one of the first full-length reports to deal with adolescent abuse.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780202360409
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	01/01/2008
Pages:	370
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

1: Destructive Family Relations in Adolescence; 1: An Introduction to Troubled Youth in Troubled Families; 2: Child Abuse and Juvenile Delinquency: What are The Links?; 3: The Adolescent Runaway; II: Studying Troubled Youth and Troubled Families; 4: Methodological Considerations in Studying Troubled Youth and Troubled Families; 5: Defining High Risk; 6: Characteristics of High-Risk Families: Parental and Adolescent Perspectives; III: Challenges to Adolescent Development; 7: Social Competence in Adolescence; 8: Behavior Problems in Adolescence; 9: Socioeconomic Stress and Family Functioning in Adolescence; 10: Adolescents in Stepfamilies; IV: The Prospects for IV Troubled Youth and Troubled Families; 11: Prospects for Intervention with Troubled Youth and Troubled Families; 12: Conclusion: The Prognosis for Troubled Youth in Troubled Families

Editorial Reviews

The bulk of the research on parental maltreatment of youth has focused on physical violence directed toward children. Troubled Youth, Troubled Families makes an important contribution to this area both by focusing on the understudied topic of adolescent abuse and by attempting to provide a systematic analysis of potential association between victimization and subsequent antisocial behavior. . . . The superb hypotheses generated by this study should be of interest to life course and family scholars as well as criminologists.” —Candace Kruttschnitt, Contemporary Sociology

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