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Savitz-Romer, Mandy; Bouffard, Suzanne M. – Harvard Education Press, 2012
How can an understanding of adolescent development inform strategies and practices for supporting first-generation college goers? In "Ready, Willing, and Able," Mandy Savitz-Romer and Suzanne Bouffard focus on the developmental tasks and competencies that young people need to develop in order to plan for and succeed in higher education. These…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Developmental Tasks, Adolescents, Access to Education
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Rush, Christina Mitchell; Akos, Patrick – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2007
Children and adolescents of deployed soldiers require preventive and sometimes remedial service from school counselors, because deployment taxes coping skills and exacerbates normal developmental challenges. This article reviews the cultural and developmental context for children with deployed caregivers and outlines a ten session, hybrid…
Descriptors: Parents, Caregivers, Adolescents, School Counselors
Frey, Sherman – 1973
The relationship between grade point average, grade level, age, sex, social class, and self-concept as defined by Havighurst's Developmental Tasks for Youth was investigated. Subjects were 280 adolescents ranging in age from 13 through 18 and coming from a variety of social classes. Each subject completed a Self-Concept Scale for Adolescents,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Age Differences, Developmental Tasks