Adulthood Books

New and Published Books

1. Family-Centered Treatment With Struggling Young Adults

   A Clinician’s Guide to the Transition From Adolescence to Autonomy

   By Brad Sachs

   Family-Centered Treatment With Struggling Young Adults is an indispensible guidebook to the unique set of problems and opportunities that families face when young adults are experiencing difficulty pulling anchor and setting sail. Renowned clinician Brad Sachs, PhD, provides both a conceptual...

   Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge
2. Handbook of Research on Adult Learning and Development

   Edited by M Cecil Smith, Nancy DeFrates-Densch, Assistant Editor

   The time is right for this comprehensive, state-of-the-art Handbook that analyzes, integrates, and summarizes theoretical advances and research findings on adult development and learning - a rapidly growing field reflecting demographic shifts toward an aging population in Western societies....

   Published November 6th 2008 by Routledge
3. Adulthood

   By Evie Bentley

   Series: Routledge Modular Psychology

   Adulthood is an accessible text which deals with the vital area of adult psychological development. It combines detailed accounts of the main theories and evidence on the psychology of adulthood with thorough discussion and commentary, presented in a concise and friendly form. The book's approach...

   Published January 14th 2007 by Routledge
4. The Baby Boomers Grow Up

   Contemporary Perspectives on Midlife

   Edited by Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Sherry L. Willis

   The goal of this volume is to examine development in middle age from the perspective of baby boomers -- a unique cohort in the United States defined as those individuals born from 1946 to 1962. This is the largest cohort ever to enter middle age in Western society, and they currently represent...

   Published July 13th 2006 by Psychology Press
5. The Transition to Adulthood and Family Relations

   An Intergenerational Approach

   By Eugenia Scabini, Elena Marta, Margherita Lanz

   Series: Studies in Adolescent Development

   This book explores the development of a new path of transition between adolescence and adulthood in recent generations. Whereas traditionally the transition into adulthood was marked by a clear and irreversible change in condition, we are now seeing a continuance in the role and...

   Published March 15th 2006 by Psychology Press