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Understanding girls' problem behavior : how girls' delinquency develops in the context of maturity and health, co-occurring problems, and relationships / edited by Margaret Kerr [and others].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Hot topics in developmental researchPublication details: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 235 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780470977453
  • 0470977450
  • 9780470977446
  • 0470977442
  • 128317538X
  • 9781283175388
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Understanding girls' problem behavior.DDC classification:
  • 618.92/89075 22
LOC classification:
  • RJ506.B44 U55 2011
NLM classification:
  • 2011 B-973
  • WS 463
Online resources:
Contents:
Front Matter -- Introduction: Girls' Problem Behavior: From the What to the Why / Geertjan Overbeek, Anna-Karin Andershed -- Maturity and Health. A Contextual Amplification Hypothesis: Pubertal Timing and Girls' Emotional and Behavioral Problems / Xiaojia Ge, Misaki N Natsuaki, Run Jin, Michael C Biehl -- Fits and Misfits: How Adolescents' Representations of Maturity Relate to Their Adjustment / Lauree C Tilton-Weaver, Fumiko Kakihara, Sheila K Marshall, Nancy L Galambos -- Physical Health in Adolescent Girls with Antisocial Behavior / Kathleen Pajer, Andrea Lourie, Lisa Leininger -- Co-Occurring Problems. Using Girls' Voices and Words to Study Their Problems / Joanne Belknap, Emily Gaarder, Kristi Holsinger, Cathy McDaniels Wilson, Bonnie Cady -- Developmental Comorbidity of Depression and Conduct Problems in Girls / Kate Keenan, Xin Feng, Dara Babinski, Alison Hipwell, Amanda Hinze, Rolf Loeber, Magda Stouthamer-Loeber -- Girls' Problem Behavior and Relationships. Deviancy Training in a Sample of High-Risk Adolescent Girls in The Netherlands / Annika K E de Haan, Geertjan Overbeek, Karin S Nijhof, Rutger C M E Engels -- Girls' Aggressive Behavior Problems: A Focus on Relationships / Debra Pepler, Jennifer Connolly, Wendy Craig, Depeng Jiang -- Attachment and Aggression: From Paradox to Principles of Intervention to Reduce Risk of Violence in Teens / Marlene M Moretti, Ingrid Obsuth -- The Transfer of Developmental and Health Risk from Women with Histories of Aggressive Behavior to Their Children: Recent Results from the Concordia Longitudinal Project / Lisa A Serbin, Dale M Stack, Michele Hubert, Alex E Schwartzman, Jane Ledingham -- Index.
Girls' problem behavior : from the what to the why / Geertjan Overbeek & Anna-Karin Andershed -- A contextual amplification hypothesis : pubertal timing and girls' emotional and behavioral problems / Xiaojia Ge [and others] -- Fits and misfits : how adolescents' representations of maturity relate to their adjustment / Lauree C. Tilton-Weaver [and others] -- Physical health in adolescent girls with antisocial behavior / Kathleen Pajer, Andrea Lourie & Lisa Leininger -- Using girls' voices and words to study their problems / Joanne Belknap [and others] -- Developmental comorbidity of depression and conduct problems in girls / Kate Keenan [and others] -- Deviancy training in a sample of high-risk adolescent girls in the Netherlands / Annika K.E. de Haan [and others] -- Girls' aggressive behavior problems : a focus on relationships / Debra Pepler [and others] -- Attachment and aggression : from paradox to principles of intervention to reduce risk of violence in teens / Marlene M. Moretti & Ingrid Obsuth -- The transfer of developmental and health risk from women with histories of aggressive behavior to their children : recent results from the Concordia Longitudinal Project / Lisa A. Serbin [and others].
Summary: Understanding Girls' Problem Behavior presents an overview of recent studies by leading researchers into key aspects of the development of problem behavior in girls.: Integrates interdisciplinary research into girls' problem behaviors (e.g. aggression, antisocial behavior, rule breaking); Unique in seeking to understand girls' problem behaviors in their own right; Follows the maturing girl from adolescence to adulthood, concluding at the point where she herself becomes a parent and forms new relationships; Gives attention to the critical contexts of problem behavior development--society and nei.
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Front Matter -- Introduction: Girls' Problem Behavior: From the What to the Why / Geertjan Overbeek, Anna-Karin Andershed -- Maturity and Health. A Contextual Amplification Hypothesis: Pubertal Timing and Girls' Emotional and Behavioral Problems / Xiaojia Ge, Misaki N Natsuaki, Run Jin, Michael C Biehl -- Fits and Misfits: How Adolescents' Representations of Maturity Relate to Their Adjustment / Lauree C Tilton-Weaver, Fumiko Kakihara, Sheila K Marshall, Nancy L Galambos -- Physical Health in Adolescent Girls with Antisocial Behavior / Kathleen Pajer, Andrea Lourie, Lisa Leininger -- Co-Occurring Problems. Using Girls' Voices and Words to Study Their Problems / Joanne Belknap, Emily Gaarder, Kristi Holsinger, Cathy McDaniels Wilson, Bonnie Cady -- Developmental Comorbidity of Depression and Conduct Problems in Girls / Kate Keenan, Xin Feng, Dara Babinski, Alison Hipwell, Amanda Hinze, Rolf Loeber, Magda Stouthamer-Loeber -- Girls' Problem Behavior and Relationships. Deviancy Training in a Sample of High-Risk Adolescent Girls in The Netherlands / Annika K E de Haan, Geertjan Overbeek, Karin S Nijhof, Rutger C M E Engels -- Girls' Aggressive Behavior Problems: A Focus on Relationships / Debra Pepler, Jennifer Connolly, Wendy Craig, Depeng Jiang -- Attachment and Aggression: From Paradox to Principles of Intervention to Reduce Risk of Violence in Teens / Marlene M Moretti, Ingrid Obsuth -- The Transfer of Developmental and Health Risk from Women with Histories of Aggressive Behavior to Their Children: Recent Results from the Concordia Longitudinal Project / Lisa A Serbin, Dale M Stack, Michele Hubert, Alex E Schwartzman, Jane Ledingham -- Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Girls' problem behavior : from the what to the why / Geertjan Overbeek & Anna-Karin Andershed -- A contextual amplification hypothesis : pubertal timing and girls' emotional and behavioral problems / Xiaojia Ge [and others] -- Fits and misfits : how adolescents' representations of maturity relate to their adjustment / Lauree C. Tilton-Weaver [and others] -- Physical health in adolescent girls with antisocial behavior / Kathleen Pajer, Andrea Lourie & Lisa Leininger -- Using girls' voices and words to study their problems / Joanne Belknap [and others] -- Developmental comorbidity of depression and conduct problems in girls / Kate Keenan [and others] -- Deviancy training in a sample of high-risk adolescent girls in the Netherlands / Annika K.E. de Haan [and others] -- Girls' aggressive behavior problems : a focus on relationships / Debra Pepler [and others] -- Attachment and aggression : from paradox to principles of intervention to reduce risk of violence in teens / Marlene M. Moretti & Ingrid Obsuth -- The transfer of developmental and health risk from women with histories of aggressive behavior to their children : recent results from the Concordia Longitudinal Project / Lisa A. Serbin [and others].

Understanding Girls' Problem Behavior presents an overview of recent studies by leading researchers into key aspects of the development of problem behavior in girls.: Integrates interdisciplinary research into girls' problem behaviors (e.g. aggression, antisocial behavior, rule breaking); Unique in seeking to understand girls' problem behaviors in their own right; Follows the maturing girl from adolescence to adulthood, concluding at the point where she herself becomes a parent and forms new relationships; Gives attention to the critical contexts of problem behavior development--society and nei.

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