Overview
Understanding Girls' Problem Behavior presents an overview of recent studies by leading researchers into key aspects of the development of problem behavior in girls. Integrates interdisciplinary research into girls’ problem behaviors (e.g. aggression, antisocial behavior, rule breaking) Unique in seeking to understand girls' problem behaviors in their own right Follows the maturing girl from adolescence to adulthood, concluding at the point where she herself becomes a parent and forms new relationships Gives attention to the critical contexts of problem behavior development—society and neighborhood, as well as family and peer contexts
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Author: Margaret Kerr (Orebro University, Sweden) , Håkan Stattin (Orebro University, Sweden) , Rutger C. M. E. Engels (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands) , Geertjan Overbeek (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:
Width: 17.50cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 25.20cm
Weight: 0.576kg
ISBN: 9780470666326
ISBN 10: 0470666323
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 31 December 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
About the Editors ix List of Contributors xi Acknowledgements xv Introduction: Girls’ Problem Behavior: From the What to the Why 1 Geertjan Overbeek and Anna-Karin Andershed PART 1: MATURITY AND HEALTH 9 1 A Contextual Amplification Hypothesis: Pubertal Timing and Girls’ Emotional and Behavioral Problems 11 Xiaojia Ge, Misaki N. Natsuaki, Run Jin, and Michael C. Biehl 2 Fits and Misfits: How Adolescents’ Representations of Maturity Relate To Their Adjustment 31 Lauree C. Tilton-Weaver, Fumiko Kakihara, Sheila K. Marshall, and Nancy L. Galambos 3 Physical Health in Adolescent Girls with Antisocial Behavior 69 Kathleen Pajer, Andrea Lourie, and Lisa Leininger PART 2: CO-OCCURRING PROBLEMS 95 4 Using Girls’ Voices and Words to Study Their Problems 97 Joanne Belknap, Emily Gaarder, Kristi Holsinger, Cathy McDaniels Wilson, and Bonnie Cady 5 Developmental Comorbidity of Depression and Conduct Problems in Girls 117 Kate Keenan, Xin Feng, Dara Babinski, Alison Hipwell, Amanda Hinze, Rolf Loeber, and Magda Stouthamer-Loeber PART 3: GIRLS’ PROBLEM BEHAVIOR AND RELATIONSHIPS 139 6 Deviancy Training in a Sample of High-Risk Adolescent Girls in The Netherlands 141 Annika K. E. de Haan, Geertjan Overbeek, Karin S. Nijhof, and Rutger C. M. E. Engels 7 Girls’ Aggressive Behavior Problems: A Focus on Relationships 165 Debra Pepler, Jennifer Connolly, Wendy Craig, and Depeng Jiang 8 Attachment and Aggression: From Paradox to Principles of Intervention to Reduce Risk of Violence in Teens 185 Marlene M. Moretti and Ingrid Obsuth 9 The Transfer of Developmental and Health Risk from Women with Histories of Aggressive Behavior to Their Children: Recent Results from the Concordia Longitudinal Project 207 Lisa A. Serbin, Dale M. Stack, Michele Hubert, Alex E. Schwartzman, and Jane Ledingham Index 231
Reviews
This volume offers a valuable international perspective on understanding key aspects of girls' behavior problems - more prevalent than usually believed, but studied less than that of boys. (Booknews, 1 June 2011)
Author Information
Margaret Kerr is Professor of Psychology at Örebro University, Sweden. Håkan Stattin is Professor of Psychology at Uppsala and Örebro Universities, Sweden. Rutger C.M.E. Engels is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Geertjan Overbeek is Associate Professor at the Department of Developmental Psychology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Anna-Karin Andershed is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Örebro University, Sweden.
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