Adolescent identities
Subtitle: a collection of readings
By: edited by Deborah L. Browning.
Contributors: Browning, Deborah L.
Series: Relational perspectives book series -- v. 37.
Publisher: Analytic Press; Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9780881634617
Subjects: Identity (Psychology) in adolescence
Description: Adolescent Identities consists of six sections, arranged by concentric circles of influence, from the most exterior, identifiable, and potentially overt and conscious, to the most internal, private, and potentially unconscious concerns. Opening papers are drawn from sociology, European history, and cross-cultural anthropology, and address the question of whether and how adolescence can be considered a stage in development. The second section explores how visible or potentially knowable minority statuses--based on race, ethnicity, same-sex attractions, and teen pregnancy--are experienced and how this interacts with individual identity processes. Moving closer to the adolescent's interpersonal world, the third section presents papers about intimate relationships between adolescents and about the conscious preoccupations of adolescents when they are alone. Excerpts of Erik Erikson's most important contributions on identity formation and adolescence are offered in the fourth section. Papers on the most internal, private, and potentially unconscious conflicts comprise the fifth section. The book concludes with a section of papers on "failed solutions" to the challenge of adolescent identity consolidation: homelessness, drug abuse, eating disorders, and suicide.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Identifying adolescence. Coming of age in a multicultural world : globalization and adolescent cultural identity formation / Lene Arnett Jensen ; Historical descriptions and prescriptions for adolescence / Barbara Hanawalt ; A cross-cultural approach to adolescence / Alice Schlegel; title: Identity and diversity in the cultural milieu. Ethnic identity exploration in emerging adulthood / Jean S. Phinney ; Refusing and resisting sexual identity labels / Ritch Savin-Williams ; Identity and marginality : issues in the treatment of biracial adolescents / Jewelle Taylor Gibbs ; Constructing failure, narrating success : rethinking the "problem" of teen pregnancy / Katherine Schultz; title: Adolescent identity formation and the relational world. Exit-voice dilemmas in adolescent development / Carol Gilligan ; Adolescents' relatedness and identity formation : a narrative study / Hanoch Flum and Michal Lavi-Yudelevitch ; A relational perspective on adolescent boys' identity development / Judy Y. Chu ; Adolescent thinking / Barbel Inhelder and Jean Piaget; title: Erik Erikson and psychosocial identity. The problem of ego identity / Erik Erikson ; Ego and actuality (on Dora) / Erik Erikson; title: Adolescent identity formation and the internal world. Personality changes in female adolescents / Karen Horney ; On adolescence / Jeanne Lampl-De Groot ; Son and father / Peter Blos, Sr.; title: Challenges to identity coherence and maintenance. From home to street : understanding young people's transitions into homelessness / Justeen Hyde ; Self-destructiveness in adolescence / Joseph Noshpitz ; A changing female identity / Richard Gordon ; Psychodynamic approaches to youth suicide / Robert King.