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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jerald g bachman”
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  • Smoking, Drinking, and Drug Use in Young Adulthood

    The Impacts of New Freedoms and New Responsibilities

    by Jerald G. Bachman, Katherine N. Wadsworth, Patrick M. O'Malley, Lloyd D. Johnston, John E. Schulenberg ...
    Series series Research Monographs in Adolescence Series
    Why do some young adults substantially change their patterns of smoking, drinking, or illicit drug use after graduating from high school? In this book, the authors show that leaving high school and leaving home create new freedoms that are linked to increases in the use of cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine. They also show that marriage, pregnancy, and parenthood create new ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • The Decline of Substance Use in Young Adulthood

    Changes in Social Activities, Roles, and Beliefs

    by Jerald G. Bachman, Patrick M. O'Malley, John E. Schulenberg, Lloyd D. Johnston, Alison L. Bryant, Alicia C. Merline ...
    Series series Research Monographs in Adolescence Series
    This book is intended as a thoughtful extension to Bachman et al.'s well-received monograph Smoking, Drinking, and Drug Use in Young Adulthood. That volume showed that the new freedoms of young adulthood lead to increases in substance use, while the responsibilities of adulthood--marriage, pregnancy, parenthood--contribute to declines in substance use. The Decline of Substance Use in Young ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Education-Drug Use Connection

    How Successes and Failures in School Relate to Adolescent Smoking, Drinking, Drug Use, and Delinquency

    by Jerald G. Bachman, Patrick M. O'Malley, John E. Schulenberg, Lloyd D. Johnston, Peter Freedman-Doan, Emily E. Messersmith ...
    Does success in school protect teenagers from drug use? Does drug use impair scholastic success? This book tackles a key issue in adolescent development and health - the education-drug use connection. The authors examine the links and likely causal connections between educational experiences, delinquent behavior, and adolescent use of tobacco, alco ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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  • Unfinished Business

    Pressure Points in the Lives of Women

    by Maggie Scarf ...
    “An extraordinary panorama of women’s lives today.”—The New York Times Book ReviewIn detailed, revealing portraits of women from their teens through their sixties, Maggie Scarf explores the core experiences of women’s lives and discovers what can happen when the days and years scurry by, leaving unfinished the tasks that transform us from child to girl to woman.Praise for Unfinished Business“Real ... Read more

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  • BAM! Boys Advocacy and Mentoring

    A Leader’s Guide to Facilitating Strengths-Based Groups for Boys - Helping Boys Make Better Contact by Making Better Contact with Them

    by Peter Mortola, Howard Hiton, Stephen Grant ...
    Series series The Routledge Series on Counseling and Psychotherapy with Boys and Men
    Over the past decade, our understanding of the fundamental differences in child development, behavior, and emotional maturity between boys and girls has increased dramatically, and as a result, many gender-specific interventions and support programs have been developed to meet the needs of parents, teachers, and mental health professionals. However, these all take the form of responses designed to ... Read more

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  • For Parents and Teenagers

    Dissolving the Barrier Between You and Your Teen

    by William Glasser, M.D. ...
    Are you tired of the constant arguments, the slammed doors, and the feeling that you and your teenager are living in two different worlds?If your attempts to control your teen’s behavior only lead to more conflict and disconnection, you are not alone. World-renowned psychiatrist William Glasser, M.D., explains that the problem isn’t you or your child—it’s the outdated “external control psychology” ... Read more

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  • Boys Adrift

    The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men

    by Leonard Sax ...
    American boys are failing to meet their potential—the author of the New York Times bestseller The Collapse of Parenting explains why, and what we can do about it, in this updated edition.A growing proportion of American boys are failing. From kindergarten to college, boys are becoming less resilient and less ambitious, and the gender gap in college attendance and graduation rates ... ... Read more

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  • "What's Happening To Me?"

    The Classic Illustrated Children's Book on Puberty

    by Peter Mayle ...
    For more than twenty years, the internationally bestselling team behind Where Did I Come From? has helped millions of parents and children talk about the facts of life in a straightforward yet lighthearted way that is respectful of young people’s natural intelligence. Warmly and relatably illustrated throughout, What’s Happening to Me? creates a safe space where families can talk about the ... Read more

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  • Getting to 30

    A Parent's Guide to the 20-Something Years

    by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, PhD, Elizabeth Fishel ...
    “This is the book parents have been waiting for”—Michael Thompson, coauthor of Raising Cain. The book that is “helpful, hopeful, and engaging”—Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Ph.D., Columbia University. It is the book that addresses the new reality for parents of kids in their 20s and the issues that everyone in the media is talking about: When will this new generation of 20-somethings leave home, find love, ... Read more

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  • Age Of Opportunity

    Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence

    by Laurence Steinberg ...
    “Simply the best book I have ever read about adolescence. . . . With gentle wisdom, Steinberg guides us through truly novel findings on what happens during adolescence and tells us how, as parents and teachers, we should change our ways.” — Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph. D., author of The Optimistic Child“If you need to understand adolescents—whether your own or anyone else’s—you must read this book . ... Read more

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  • Youth & Drugs and Mental Health

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    by Elsbeth Tucker, MSW ...
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