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Adolescent Psychology
in Today’s World

Global Perspectives on Risk,
Relationships, and Development

3 VOLUMES | MICHAEL NAKKULA AND
ANDREW J. SCHNEIDER-MUÑOZ, EDITORS

Continually unstable or perpetually poor economic conditions, globalization,
and rapid technological change are just three of the forces affecting a group
1.2 billion strong today, a demographic poised to become our world leaders
and catalysts in the not-too-distant future: the world’s adolescents. Led by
two editors who have been dedicated to studying adolescent development
April 2018, 1,200pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 worldwide for decades, this novel collection of works from contributors in
Print: 978-1-4408-3039-6 more than 40 countries emphasizes how possibilities for healthy mental
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their countries and how these challenges have shaped, and are shaping,
contemporary teenage life today.
S AMPLE T OPICS The set comprehensively addresses issues for adolescents across the globe,
• Africa such as the day-to-day challenges of poverty, inadequate education, violence
• Argentina or war, disease, reproductive matters, globalization and technological
• Bolivia challenges, and more, while also providing a strengths-based focus in the
• Canada volumes, showing how and why some teenagers in each country have
• Europe surmounted the challenges and forged stronger characters to better their
• Hawaii worlds. These stories document more than personal victories, and their
experiences matter to far more than the adolescents themselves. In its State
• Nicaragua
of the World’s Children 2011 report, UNICEF noted that the world community
• Southwest Pacific Region needs to turn its attention to adolescents in need, explaining that focusing
• The Caribbean on this large and potentially powerful group makes economic sense as well
as being a necessary step in working towards achieving human justice. By
FEATURES addressing the risks, challenges, and strengths of teenagers as a group in
countries worldwide, this work serves to break the cycle of poverty, violence,
• Offers a holistic range of topics and breadth of
perspectives by addressing the risks, challenges, discrimination, and death for adolescents.
and strengths of teenagers as a group in countries
worldwide
• Features contributions from scholars who are
from—or have extensive on-the-ground experience
in—the country of focus, paired with a second
author shaping the chapter for an English-speaking
readership
• Includes an extensive bibliography addressing the
study of teen psychology in each country presented
and within the larger region

MICHAEL NAKKULA is chair of the Division of Applied Psychology at the
University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education.
ANDREW J. SCHNEIDER-MUÑOZ, a Harvard-trained child psychologist and
anthropologist, is president of the Association of Child and Youth Care Practice.
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