Overview
- First volume to consider how narrative is integral to healthy, normative development during adolescence
- Examines the links between narrative and broader contextual factors and outcomes
- A must-have resource for anyone conducting research on adolescence or working with adolescents to ensure healthy development and outcomes
- Explores the burgeoning body of research in the field of narrative and development processes in a variety of contexts, including personal, social, and cultural
- Details the theories used to derive hypotheses and methods in this field of research
- Synthesizes the latest research on narrative in adolescence
- Offers both qualitative and quantitative work and spans different cultures, historical contexts, and both normative and pathological issues for adolescent development
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development (ARAD)
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“This book focuses on understanding the life stories of adolescents and the relationship to developmental maturity. … It is intended for researchers, clinicians, and graduate students in developmental, clinical, child, and school psychology as well as allied mental health and education fields. … great need to understand teenagers and help them as they grow into adulthood. … The international authorship gives readers a chance to understand youth from all over the world. Clinicians working with teenagers will find this of great help.” (Gary B. Kanuik, Doody’s Review Service, May, 2010)
“Narrative Development in Adolescence: Creating the Storied Self, edited by Kate McLean and Monisha Pasupathi, represents the emergence of a new field within the world of narrative psychology–adolescent narrative development. … It is an essential resource for researchers, clinicians and anyone conducting research or working with adolescents and who seek to ensure their healthy development and successful transition to adulthood.” (Prathiba Nagabhushan, Journal of Youth Adolescence, Vol. 40, 2011)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kate C. McLean is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto. She completed her Ph.D in Developmental Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2004.
Monisha Pasupathi is an associate professor of developmental psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Utah. She completed her Ph.D. in Personality Psychology at Stanford University in 1997, and subsequently served as a post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany, until 1999.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Narrative Development in Adolescence
Book Subtitle: Creating the Storied Self
Editors: Kate C. McLean, Monisha Pasupathi
Series Title: Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-89825-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-89824-7Published: 01 December 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-1516-9Published: 04 October 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-89825-4Published: 11 November 2009
Series ISSN: 2195-089X
Series E-ISSN: 2195-0903
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIII, 237
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Developmental Psychology, Child and School Psychology, Education, general