Originally published in 1996, Adolescence: From Crisis to Coping presented a unique collaborative study of perceived problems and coping strategies of young people from a variety of socio-economic and national backgrounds. It describes the culture-fair research model and explains results in terms of national background, gender and socio-economic, racial and minority status.
Rather than portraying adolescence as a stage of crisis, the study describes this age group as coping with multiple external crises. While adolescents are frequently similar in the issues that concern them, it is significant that their gender and socio-economic backgrounds are often better predictors of their problems and coping strategies than their national backgrounds.
The thirteen nations in which the study was carried out are: Australia, Brazil, China, Greece, India, Israel, Kuwait, Netherlands, Philippines, Russia, Turkey, USA, Venezuela.
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This study makes several contributions to the field: first, drawing on personal statements of more that 5000 subjects, it provides empirical evidence to describe the problems and coping of adolescents; second, a unique outcome is provided by the implications drawn for preparing counsellors and counselling psychologists to assist diverse populations; third, the methodology used grounds the data in the social and cultural milieu of the populations being studied This study has moved us toward the development of a knowledge base and thus a framework for understanding this segment of the worlds population. Thomas J. Labelle, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs and Research, University of West Virginia
Foreword. Preface: The Evolution of a Multinational Study.
Acknowledgements. About the Authors. Part
1. Introduction
1. From Crisis to
Coping: Theories and Helping Practices J. Gibson-Cline, M. Dikaiou and M.
Haritos-Fatouras with B. Shafrir
2. Methodology for a Multinational Study J.
Gibson-Cline, C. Baker and the Energetic Research Team Part
2. Findings: A
Multinational View of Adolescents
3. Results of a Multinational Investigation
The Energetic Research Team Part
3. Findings: From Thirteen National Studies
of Adolescents
4. Australia M. Robertson
5. Brazil I. Guimaraes and E.
Pereira
6. The Peoples Republic of China F. Sun and J. Gibson-Cline
7.
Greece M. Dikaiou, M. Haritos-Fatouras and G. Kiosseoglou
8. India L.
Kashyap
9. Israel B. Shafrir
10. Kuwait Q. Al-Sarraf
11. Netherlands P. De
Weerdt
12. The Philippines G. Velazco
13. Russia N. Talyzina and T. Gabay
with J. Gibson-Cline
14. Turkey S. Arsoy
15. Continental United States G.
Ondis, J. Gibson-Cline, M. Dragoon and C. Jones
16. Venezuela M. Felce Di
Paula and F. Di Paula Part
4. Minority Populations
17. Minority Populations
M. Dikaiou, J. Gibson-Cline, P. De Weerdt, M. Dragoon and C. Jones with M.
Saleh Part
5. Conclusions and Implications for Theory and Practice
18.
Implications for Theory and Practice J. Gibson-Cline, M. Dikaiou, M. Dragoon,
M. Haritos-Fatouras, B. Shafrir, I. Guimaraes, E. Pereira, P. De Weerdt and
L. Kashyap with Q. Al-Sarraf. Appendices. Glossary. References. Author Index.
Subject Index.
Janice Gibson-Cline was Professor Emeritus of Developmental Psychology, University of Pittsburgh. She served as Fulbright Research Professor in Greece and the Philippines, National Academy of Science Exchange Professor in the former Soviet Union and Visiting Research Professor in the Peoples Republic of China.
