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This book explores how socioeconomic adversity impacts adolescent health. Using a life course framework, it examines the neurobiological, physiological, and behavioral pathways linking adversity and health, offering a solid foundation for future research.
This book serves as a valuable supplementary resource for graduate students, instructors, and researchers from various fields who are investigating the impact of family and environmental socioeconomic adversity (ESA) on the physical health of adolescents and young adults. It’s an excellent fit for a variety of courses and disciplines interested in topics such as social epidemiology, adolescent development, social factors affecting health, public health, family and health, medical sociology, and family counseling, as well as longitudinal data studies.
This book presents an integrated theoretical framework based on life course and developmental perspectives. It highlights the continuity of developmental processes and emphasizes adolescence as a particularly vulnerable stage. The chapters explore the neurobiological, physiological, psychological, and behavioral pathways that connect the ESA and health. Each chapter features illustrative examples along with theoretical and methodological insights. Overall, the book offers a deeper understanding of this research area and provides a solid foundation for developing comprehensive, testable longitudinal models.
This book explores the human psyche (‘soul’) and its usefulness in a techno-scientific revolution that is often blind to its subject: the human being. It makes a strong intellectual case for the soul by examining consciousness, synchronicity, suffering, and death.
This guide provides a clinical and forensic approach to personality disorders, comparing the categorical (ICD-10) and dimensional (ICD-11) classifications. With diagnostic and therapeutic guidelines, it will appeal to psychiatrists, psychologists, and students.
A positive link exists between religiosity and well-being. This book brings together in one volume scattered empirical studies on the topic from different Arab, mainly Muslim, countries, exploring the connection to mental health, happiness, and quality of life.
Belief in possession has ancient roots. This book traces its global history and explores how mental health professionals can help a person who believes they are possessed. Featuring interviews with exorcists, this is a fascinating study for believers and sceptics alike.
Modern challenges cause stress and poor health. This book develops the concept of ‘emotional health’ as a bio-psycho-socio-cultural balance, bridging medical treatments with alternative therapies to highlight new solutions to these problems.
This book offers a new perspective on the origins of human sexuality. It reveals that romantic love and exclusive pair-bonds are not our original evolutionary features. Early humans practiced multiple-partner relations until culture restrained their innate sexual nature.
Common perspectives on sexual orientation are inaccurate. This book establishes criteria for a robust theory, evaluates major perspectives, and proposes the first novel theory in decades: a four-component approach that explains many fascinating sexual orientation occurrences.
This book covers the consequences of death for patients and families, including grief and health. It offers a health promotion perspective on palliative care for patients, families, and care workers, stressing the importance of fulfilling patient wishes.
How do we make sense of our world, a world of increasing angst and despair? The essays in this book provide insight from health professionals as they discuss their ideas on compassion, offering you an opportunity to reflect and go forward with a sense of shared humanity.
How do we know if someone else is conscious? This book offers a compelling bioethical analysis of one of neuroscience’s most intriguing topics: states of consciousness, bringing together contributions from international experts in neuroscience, philosophy, law, and ethics.
This book presents a framework linking family economic adversity to later-life health. It details five biopsychosocial pathways, with particular attention to how enduring couple relationships shape these outcomes over the life course and guide future research.
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