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This state-of-the-art practitioner resource and course text provides a comprehensive view of adolescent development and spells out effective ways to help teens who are having difficulties. The book illuminates protective and risk factors in the many contexts of adolescents' lives, from individual attributes to family, school, neighborhood, and media influences. An ecological perspective is applied to understanding and addressing specific adolescent challenges, including substance abuse, sexual identity issues, mental health problems, risky sexual behavior, and delinquency. Throughout the text, clear-cut assessment and intervention strategies are illustrated with rich case examples. This book will be important for practitioners and students in social work, clinical child/adolescent and school psychology, psychiatry, family therapy, counseling, and nursing. It will also serve as a text in undergraduate- and graduate-level courses such as social work practice with adolescents, human behavior and the social environment, human development, and adolescent counseling and psychotherapy, and in psychiatric residency programs.

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""This comprehensive text discusses adolescent development through a multisystemic, ecological perspective that addresses the many contexts in which adolescents live. It contains thought-provoking discussions of risk and protective factors, with attention to diversity issues throughout. Solutions to complex problems are illustrated in numerous case examples. This is an excellent text for master's-level courses, including human behavior, practice classes focused on families or adolescents, school social work classes, and field practica. Questions for self-reflective practice make this book a great resource for beginning practitioners."" - Linda Openshaw, Director, Master of Social Work Program, Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA ""Laser and Nicotera's ecological perspective goes above and beyond the risk and protective factors that are typically discussed in books on working with teenagers. In great detail, they provide an approach that addresses family relationships, neighborhood influences, mental health issues, and school crises. Designed for the practitioner, the book provides the tools necessary to be successful in helping struggling adolescents. Case studies and reflection questions allow readers to gain an understanding of effective practice and to consider how to apply these strategies in their own work. This text would work well in our graduate-level course on clinical and diagnostic skills."" - Kelly McGraw, School Psychology Program, Chicago School of Professional Psychology, USA

This comprehensive text discusses adolescent development through a multisystemic, ecological perspective that addresses the many contexts in which adolescents live. It contains thought-provoking discussions of risk and protective factors, with attention to diversity issues throughout. Solutions to complex problems are illustrated in numerous case examples. This is an excellent text for master's-level courses, including human behavior, practice classes focused on families or adolescents, school social work classes, and field practica. Questions for self-reflective practice make this book a great resource for beginning practitioners. - Linda Openshaw, Director, Master of Social Work Program, Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA Laser and Nicotera's ecological perspective goes above and beyond the risk and protective factors that are typically discussed in books on working with teenagers. In great detail, they provide an approach that addresses family relationships, neighborhood influences, mental health issues, and school crises. Designed for the practitioner, the book provides the tools necessary to be successful in helping struggling adolescents. Case studies and reflection questions allow readers to gain an understanding of effective practice and to consider how to apply these strategies in their own work. This text would work well in our graduate-level course on clinical and diagnostic skills. - Kelly McGraw, School Psychology Program, Chicago School of Professional Psychology, USA

"""This comprehensive text discusses adolescent development through a multisystemic, ecological perspective that addresses the many contexts in which adolescents live. It contains thought-provoking discussions of risk and protective factors, with attention to diversity issues throughout. Solutions to complex problems are illustrated in numerous case examples. This is an excellent text for master's-level courses, including human behavior, practice classes focused on families or adolescents, school social work classes, and field practica. Questions for self-reflective practice make this book a great resource for beginning practitioners."" - Linda Openshaw, Director, Master of Social Work Program, Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA ""Laser and Nicotera's ecological perspective goes above and beyond the risk and protective factors that are typically discussed in books on working with teenagers. In great detail, they provide an approach that addresses family relationships, neighborhood influences, mental health issues, and school crises. Designed for the practitioner, the book provides the tools necessary to be successful in helping struggling adolescents. Case studies and reflection questions allow readers to gain an understanding of effective practice and to consider how to apply these strategies in their own work. This text would work well in our graduate-level course on clinical and diagnostic skills."" - Kelly McGraw, School Psychology Program, Chicago School of Professional Psychology, USA"

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Julie Anne Laser, PhD, MSW, LCSW, and Nicole Nicotera, PhD, MSW, LICSW, both at the Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, USA

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