Adolescents and war [[electronic resource] ] : how youth deal with political violence / / edited by Brian K. Barber

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (345 pages)
• Disciplina: 303.60835
• Soggetto topico: Youth and war - Psychological aspects; Youth and violence - Psychological aspects; Political violence - Psychological aspects; Violence - Psychological aspects; War - Psychological aspects
• Altri autori: BarberBrian K. <1954->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Glimpsing the complexity of youth and political violence / Brian K. Barber -- An overview of the empirical literature on adolescents and political violence / Brian K. Barber and Julie Mikles Schluterman -- War, military violence, and aggressive development: child, family and social preconditions / Raija-Leena Punamäki -- Growing up in Israel : lessons on understanding the effects of political violence on children / Michelle Slone -- Youth soldiering : an integrated framework for understanding psychosocial impact / Michael Wessells and Kathleen Kostelny -- Young people's perceptions of political violence : the case of northern Ireland / Orla Muldoon, Clare Cassidy, and Nichola McCullough -- Measuring adolescent perceived support amidst war and disaster : the multi-sector social support inventory / Christopher M. Layne ... [et al.] -- The effects of wartime violence on young Bosnians' postwar behaviors : policy contours for the reconstruction period / Robert J. McCouch -- Positive and negative psychosocial functioning after political conflict : examining adolescents of the first Palestinian intifada / Brian K. Barber and Joseph A. Olsen -- Mozambican child soldier life outcome study / Neil Boothby, Jennifer Crawford, and Agostinho Mamade -- Tasting the world : life after wartime for Bosnian teens in Chicago / Stevan Weine ... [et al.] -- Making sense and no sense of war : issues of identity and meaning in adolescents' experience with political conflict / Brian K. Barber -- Conclusion: Moving forward with research on adolescents and political violence / Brian K. Barber.
• Sommario/riassunto: Hundreds of thousands of children are forced or legally recruited combatants in no fewer than 70 warring parties across the world. In addition to these child soldiers, thousands of youth voluntarily participate in politically related conflict. Why, how, and in what capacities are such large numbers of teenagers involved in war and how are they affected? Adolescents and War brings together world experts in an evidence-based volume to thoroughly understand and document the intricacies of youth who have had substantial involvement in political violence. Contributors argue that the assumption that
• Titolo autorizzato: Adolescents and war
• ISBN: 1-282-05379-5; 0-19-971110-0; 9786612053795
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792241403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II