Description: "Frydenberg's text provides a complete picture of what we know about adolescents' coping abilities and challenges as well as the contexts in which they must cope. ... Her unique multi-dimensional classification of stress and coping strategies allows for a comprehensive approach to the prevention of youths' dysfunctions. ... [She] successfully has provided researchers and service providers with a starting point in studies, services and programs that promise a hopeful future for youth fromall communities." - Anand Desai, Indiana University, USA, in theJournal of Youth and Adolescence The book is a rich resource of theory, research and practical common sense. Examination of adolescence through a focus on coping enables topics of real interest and importance to be considered, so what we have in this book is, essentially, a new and creative way to look at adolescence. This is a scholarly work of significance, and the author is to be congratulated on the depth and breadth of her research and scholarship. - Susan Moore, Professor of Psychology, Swinburne University of Technology Dr. Frydenberg has written a comprehensive book that will enable mental health professionals to create assessment-to-interventions links for youth to learn and practice coping. The comprehensiveness, integrative nature, and scientific base of this book are impressive, distinctive features. - Sandra L. Christenson, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota "Erica Frydenberg's book on Adolescent Coping: Advances in Theory, Research and Practice provides an exceptionally clear and useful summary of the extensive scholarship on this topic. Its contents will be of interest to a wide range of persons interested in adolescents, including practitioners and scholars." - Thomas Oakland, Professor, University of Florida and President, International Foundation for Children's Education

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