Adolescent Portraits Identity and Challenges | Psychology

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Adolescent Portraits introduces contemporary theories and research that surround adolescent development today through eighteen first-person accounts written by young adults. The case study approach of the book illustrates the complexity of the individual experience and the interactions among an individual’s needs ideas relationships and context. Each case taken alone helps us begin to know one more adolescent and his or her experience; taken together the cases provide a rich overview of the wide diverse and complex range of adolescent experiences. This edition also includes three follow-up essays written five or more years after their original memoir. The authors of these follow-ups reflect…