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Journal of Youth and Adolescence

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01-07-2010 | Book Review

Richard Lerner: The Good Teen: Rescuing Adolescence from the Myths of the Storm and Stress Years

The Crown Publishing Group, New York, NY, 2007, pp. 257, ISBN 978-0-307-34757-2

Auteur: Jessica Sue Jackson-McLain

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 7/2010

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Richard Lerner seeks to challenge the societal consensus that adolescents are necessarily troubled. He most recently does so in The Good Teen, by using research results, anecdotes, statistics, and his thirty plus years’ experience of studying adolescence. Lerner presents the perspective that “Most teens – and there are about forty million of them between the ages of ten and nineteen – have an undeserved bad rap” (Lerner 2007, p. 11). Even though academics can benefit from reading The Good Teen, it was written for parents with the hope of initiating a widespread societal transformation in the way adolescence is viewed and the manner in which adolescents are treated. …

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Lerner, R. M. (2007). The good teen: Rescuing adolescence from the myths of the storm and stress years. New York, NY: The Crown Publishing Group.

Lerner, R. M., Lerner, J. V., & Phelps, E. (2008). The positive development of youth technical report: The 4-H study of positive youth development: Report of the findings from the first four waves of data collection. Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development [online]. Available: http://ase.tufts.edu/iaryd/documents/4HStudyAnnualReport2008.pdf. Retrieved 5 Jan 2010.

Titel: Richard Lerner: The Good Teen: Rescuing Adolescence from the Myths of the Storm and Stress Years
The Crown Publishing Group, New York, NY, 2007, pp. 257, ISBN 978-0-307-34757-2
Auteur: Jessica Sue Jackson-McLain
Publicatiedatum: 01-07-2010
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 7/2010
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-010-9504-y

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