Families with Adolescents - Bridging the Gaps Between Theory, Research, and Practice

The second edition of this book offers an expanded and updated blueprint for more consistently improved practice, emphasizing family process and structure instead of only individual developmental stages. Its chapters deftly summarize the recent knowledge base about families with adolescents and explains how to apply these results across mental health and social services disciplines. The new edition clearly illustrates family concerns and theoretical perspectives through real-world vignettes and cogent use of family assessment measures. Chapters offer a broad understanding of how diversity in all its forms - including race/ethnicity, culture, religion, and sexual orientation - has created a much more nuanced understanding of how families with adolescents are able to function within their environment. Both major challenges to families and communities form the backdrop of the second edition's focus on forecasting in which the theoretical, empirical, and intervention literatures necessarily move in service to the health and well-being of families with adolescents.
Featured topics include:

• Central concepts of family development, family systems, ecological, attachment, and social learning theories in relation to families with adolescents.
• Influence of the family on adolescent problem behavior, mental health concerns, substance use issues, educational attainment, and social competence outcomes.
• Selected studies on parenting behaviors, conflict resolution, and other major aspects of families with adolescents.
• Application topics in family-based intervention and prevention programs.
• Integrating theory, research, and applications to create a 'triple threat' model.
Diversity issues surrounding race/ethnicity, culture, religion, and sexual orientation.

Families with Adolescents, Second Edition, is an essential resource for researchers, professors, and graduate and advanced undergraduate students as well as professionals and other mental health clinicians, practitioners, and therapists in clinical child and developmental psychology, family studies, human development, sociology, social work, education, and all allied disciplines.



Stephen M. Gavazzi, Ph.D., is Professor, Department of Human Sciences, and Director of CHRR at The Ohio State University. During the past 30 years at Ohio State, Dr. Gavazzi has established a research program that identifies the impact of family dynamics on youth development, psychopathology, and problem behavior. This work has been supported by more than $5 million in grants from a wide variety of federal, state, and private sources. He also is a trained Family Therapist, thus bringing an applied clinical perspective to his work. Dr. Gavazzi has been involved in the development and evaluation of a number of family-based programming efforts, including a multifamily psychoeducational group for families containing children with mood disorders, as well as a strength-based program for families who have adolescents involved in some aspect of the juvenile court. Notably, he provided leadership in the development of the Global Risk Assessment Device, a web-based instrument designed to generate information that assists professionals in making appropriate service referrals for at-risk youth and their families.
 

Dr. Ji-Young Lim, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Child and Family Studies at Kyungpook National University in South Korea. Dr. Lim embarked on a rewarding and impactful professional journey with a Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Science (HDFS) from The Ohio State University, where she also minored in Quantitative Psychology. Her career began as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Family Studies and Social Work at Miami University. Over the past 17 years, Dr. Lim has diligently employed diverse quantitative research methods to delve into various facets of children and adolescents within diverse family contexts. Notably, she played a significant role in validating the Korean Version of Rothbart's Temperament scales, a project funded by the Korea Research Foundation. Her research efforts have shed light on child and adolescent development within multicultural families in South Korea. Dr. Lim's dedication to rigorous scholarship is evident through her extensive publication record, which boasts over 100 papers published in peer-reviewed journals.