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Families with Adolescents

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This chapter serves as a review of each of the three main parts of this book in terms of coverage of theoretical, research, and application topics concerning the study of families with adolescents. The review of theoretical material focuses on this book’s coverage of where we get our ideas about the families within which adolescents grow and develop. Special attention is given to both the generative and degenerative aspects of theories, as well as discussing the place of theoretical development in family-specific journals. The review of empirical material focuses on this book’s coverage of the actual data that we have, which informs us about the families of adolescents. Issues requiring additional attention that are identified in this chapter include the need to incorporate more qualitative-oriented efforts, as well as greater attention being given to methods that allow multiple family member perspectives to be adequately accounted for in the gathering of family-oriented data. The review of application material focuses on our knowledge base about how to prevent problems in families with adolescents or otherwise how to intervene with adolescents and their families when difficulties arise. The reader’s sensitivity to understanding how families can be viewed from quite different lenses when prevention and intervention efforts reflect activities are seen as something that are done “to” families in contrast to providing services “for families” and “with families.”

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Gavazzi, S.M. (2011). Outlook on Theoretical, Research, and Application Efforts to Date. In: Families with Adolescents. Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8246-9_13

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