This textbook provides an engaging guide to psychosocial theories of child and adolescents' wellbeing, demonstrating how psychology and sociology can be used to address key contemporary issues for those working with children and adolescents. It begins with an examination of the socially constructed nature of 'childhood' and 'adolescence', and impact of cultural context on the conditions for 'well-being', before outlining core psychological and sociological theories of childhood and adolescence. It adopts a psychosocial approach to illustrate the influence of social context on biologically based development in relation to topics including attachment, learning, play, parenting, family life, deviance, medicalisation, long-term conditions, vulnerability, and resilience.
Through encouraging analysis of a practice-oriented case study and offering reflective questions it provides a robust introduction to how psychosocial perspectives may be applied within health, social care, and education contexts. It offers students of Social Work, Nursing, Education, Psychology and Child and Adolescent Studies the critical and theoretical tools to evaluate the interlocking psychosocial factors influencing the lives of those who will be in their care.


About the Author
Jennifer M. Waite-Jones is Visiting Lecturer in Health and Developmental Psychology, at the School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, UK, where she is particularly concerned with the application of psychology and sociology to child and family health.
Alison M. Rodriguez is Lecturer Child and Family Health at the School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, UK. Alison is a chartered Psychologist and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy with extensive teaching, research and supervision experience in health and critical health psychology.



Book Information
ISBN 9783030993535
Author Jennifer M. Waite-Jones
Format Paperback
Page Count 270
Imprint Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG