Understanding Girls' Problem Behavior
How Girls' Delinquency Develops in the Context of Maturity and Health, Co-occurring Problems, and Relationships
1st Edition
Published on 8. November 2010
256 pages
978-0-470-97744-6 (ISBN)
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Understanding Girls' Problem Behavior presents an overviewof recent studies by leading researchers into key aspects of thedevelopment of problem behavior in girls.
* Integrates interdisciplinary research into girls' problembehaviors (e.g. aggression, antisocial behavior, rulebreaking)
* Unique in seeking to understand girls' problem behaviorsin their own right
* Follows the maturing girl from adolescence to adulthood,concluding at the point where she herself becomes a parent andforms new relationships
* Gives attention to the critical contexts of problem behaviordevelopment--society and neighborhood, as well asfamily and peer contexts
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"This volume offers a valuable international perspective on understanding key aspects of girls' behavior problems - more prevalent than usually believed, but studied less than that of boys." (Booknews, 1 June 2011)More details
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How Girls' Delinquency Develops in the Context of Maturity and Health, Co-occurring Problems, and Relationships
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Persons
Margaret Kerr is Professor of Psychology at ÖrebroUniversity, Sweden.
Håkan Stattin is Professor of Psychology at Uppsalaand Örebro Universities, Sweden.
Rutger C.M.E. Engels is Professor of DevelopmentalPsychopathology, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Geertjan Overbeek is Associate Professor at theDepartment of Developmental Psychology, Utrecht University, TheNetherlands.
Anna-Karin Andershed is Assistant Professor of Psychologyat Örebro University, Sweden.
Content
About the Editors ix
List of Contributors xi
Acknowledgements xv
Introduction: Girls' Problem Behavior: From the What to the Why 1
Geertjan Overbeek and Anna-Karin Andershed
PART 1: MATURITY AND HEALTH 9
1 A Contextual Amplification Hypothesis: Pubertal Timing and Girls' Emotional and Behavioral Problems 11
Xiaojia Ge, Misaki N. Natsuaki, Run Jin, and Michael C. Biehl
2 Fits and Misfits: How Adolescents' Representations of Maturity Relate To Their Adjustment 31
Lauree C. Tilton-Weaver, Fumiko Kakihara, Sheila K. Marshall, and Nancy L. Galambos
3 Physical Health in Adolescent Girls with Antisocial Behavior 69
Kathleen Pajer, Andrea Lourie, and Lisa Leininger
PART 2: CO-OCCURRING PROBLEMS 95
4 Using Girls' Voices and Words to Study Their Problems 97
Joanne Belknap, Emily Gaarder, Kristi Holsinger, Cathy McDaniels Wilson, and Bonnie Cady
5 Developmental Comorbidity of Depression and Conduct Problems in Girls 117
Kate Keenan, Xin Feng, Dara Babinski, Alison Hipwell, Amanda Hinze, Rolf Loeber, and Magda Stouthamer-Loeber
PART 3: GIRLS' PROBLEM BEHAVIOR AND RELATIONSHIPS 139
6 Deviancy Training in a Sample of High-Risk Adolescent Girls in The Netherlands 141
Annika K. E. de Haan, Geertjan Overbeek, Karin S. Nijhof, and Rutger C. M. E. Engels
7 Girls' Aggressive Behavior Problems: A Focus on Relationships 165
Debra Pepler, Jennifer Connolly, Wendy Craig, and Depeng Jiang
8 Attachment and Aggression: From Paradox to Principles of Intervention to Reduce Risk of Violence in Teens 185
Marlene M. Moretti and Ingrid Obsuth
9 The Transfer of Developmental and Health Risk from Women with Histories of Aggressive Behavior to Their Children: Recent Results from the Concordia Longitudinal Project 207
Lisa A. Serbin, Dale M. Stack, Michele Hubert, Alex E. Schwartzman, and Jane Ledingham
Index 231
