Childhood and Adolescence Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Applications

Distinguished authors detail cross-cultural issues affecting youngsters, from parenting practices to gender role socialization, and risk and resilience in childhood. The text presents challenges to existing beliefs on childhood development, offers current research on childrearing and socialization practices in diverse cultures, and examines social and educational policies as they relate to children and adolescents. Socialization practices within families, communities and educational settings are included. This volume, including both field-based and experiemental research, will appeal to practitioners, scholars and students in the fields of child psychology, cross-cultural psychology, anthropology, sociology, child and family studies and social work.Gielen, Uwe P. is the author of 'Childhood and Adolescence Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Applications', published 2004 under ISBN 9781567506617 and ISBN 1567506615.