Overview
- Provides an accessible guide to psychosocial theories of child and adolescents wellbeing
- Demonstrates how psychology and sociology can address contemporary issues in work with children and adolescents
- Offers a valuable resource to students of Psychology, Social Work, Nursing, Education, and Child and Adolescent Studies
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Psychosocial studies
- Childhood and Youth studies
- Psychology of Childhood
- child and adolescent behaviour
- Developmental well-being
- Attachment theory
- children and gender identity
- psychological determinates of health
- Theory of mind in childhood
- Development of Self Concept
- family systems theories
- social construction of childhood
- Covid 19
- Biopsychosocial approach
- Mental Health Nursing
- Maternal and Child Health
- Deviance in childhood and adolescence
- Resilience in childhood childhood and adolescence
- Life limiting conditions in childhood and adolescence
- Cyber safety
About this book
Through encouraging analysis of a practice-oriented case study and offering reflective questions it provides a robust introduction to how psychosocial perspectives may be applied within health, social care, and education contexts. It offers students of Social Work, Nursing, Education, Psychology and Child and Adolescent Studies the critical and theoretical tools to evaluate the interlocking psychosocial factors influencing the lives of those who will be in their care.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Alison M. Rodriguez is Lecturer Child and Family Health at the School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, UK. Alison is a chartered Psychologist and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy with extensive teaching, research and supervision experience in health and critical health psychology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Psychosocial Approaches to Child and Adolescent Health and Wellbeing
Authors: Jennifer M. Waite-Jones, Alison M. Rodriguez
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99354-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99353-5Published: 08 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-99354-2Published: 07 July 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 270
Number of Illustrations: 276 b/w illustrations
Topics: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Nursing, Clinical Psychology, Social Work, Education, general