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Title: Young People and Mental Health by Peter Aggleton, Jane Hurry, Ian Warwick ISBN: 0-471-97678-4 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 14 March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $50.00

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Summary: Young people and mental health
Comment: This book is edited by the director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit at the Institute of Education affiliated with the University of London and two researchers from the same institution. There are 12 chapters written by 16 authors from the field of education, psychology, psychiatry, social work, health and social policy research. Adolescence (age 12-20 years) is a fairly new invention of the twentieth century, because prior to this period children moved very rapidly from childhood into adult roles and functions. In many developing countries today teenagers have no time for adolescence, since they have to help in the rearing of their siblings, make a living and take on other responsibilities that are usually left for adulthood. Earlier researchers described the period of adolescence as a time of a very tumultuous stage of development marked with stress and conflicts in the family. Recent research (in the 1990s) with 6,000 adolescents from ten countries have found, to the contrary, that about 80% of teenagers do not experience turmoil or psychological problems, but are coping well through this period. On the other hand there is an observed increase in the prevalence of most mental health problems, when a child enters adolescence. Alcohol and drug abuse starts at about 14 years of age, anorexia nervosa at about 16 years, suicide together with anxiety and depression at 15 years and homelessness at about 16 years. These facts provides many challenges for the adolescents, the family and society. In this book the nature, cause, effect and intervention is discussed in a reader friendly way and the text can therefore be recommended for youth workers in the field of health, education and social work.

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