The First Compendium of Social Network Research Focusing on Children and Young Adult: Social Networks of Children, Adolescents, and College Students - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0898599792 ISBN 13: 9780898599794

Publisher: Psychology Press, 1988

Synopsis

Research on adult personal-social networks has contributed greatly to an understanding of mental health, illness, and responses to stress. Fueled by this successful research and a growing concern for today's youth, the contributors to this volume have conducted investigations into the functioning and structures of the social networks of toddlers, school-age children, adolescents, and college students.

The editors of this volume move beyond vague generalizations about characteristic and behavior acquisition through socialization in childhood by applying a longitudinal perspective to the sampling of child, adolescent, and young-adult network research. Social Networks of Children, Adolescents, and College Students unites several major empirical studies of children's social networks, investigating the acquisition of specific behaviors from particular groups of individuals under certain conditions.

Topics covered include:

* the effects of social networks on child development and disorder

* the relationship between social networks and coping with stress the role of friends or groups in positive socialization

* Of special interest to practitioners, researchers, and advanced students are:

* comparative data on children from other cultural groups and non-mainstream American youths descriptions and evaluations of methodologies

* introductory materials by the editors commenting on the field and the research extensive bibliographies

About this title

About the Author

John Antrobus has written exclusively for the stage, screen, television and radio. In autumn 2002 the BBC released the cassette of the radio series that John wrote for Spike, in fact Spike's last radio series. The Milligan Papers.

Review

Social Networks is an important contribution which deserves attention. Happily for both reader and reviewer, the Editors have done their job with exemplary skill and acumen. Social Networks is a significant contribution to the literature that researchers, students, and clinicians alike will find equally valuable. [It] is likely to become a valued link in the network of understanding and knowledge about children, adolescents, and their multiple social worlds.
—Child and Family Behavior Therapy

About this edition

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0898599792
• ISBN 13: 9780898599794
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Salzinger Suzanne, Antrobus John, Hammer Muriel