Adolescent Drinking and Family Life |
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| Author:
| Lowe, Geoff
Foxcroft, David R.
Sibley, D. |
| ISBN: | 978-3-7186-5413-0 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1993 |
| Publisher: | Gordon & Breach Publishing Group
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| Imprint: | Harwood Academic Publishers |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $90.00 |
Book Description:
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A major feature of this approach is the interaction of ideas from family life psychology and human geography. The authors present a typology of domestic regimes illustrated by case studies of boundary enforcement and transgression. The general theme of boundary transgression, applied here to both the psychosocial environment and built form, represents an interesting new theoretical perspective. The integration of these two fields is an innovation which should stimulate further...
More DescriptionA major feature of this approach is the interaction of ideas from family life psychology and human geography. The authors present a typology of domestic regimes illustrated by case studies of boundary enforcement and transgression. The general theme of boundary transgression, applied here to both the psychosocial environment and built form, represents an interesting new theoretical perspective. The integration of these two fields is an innovation which should stimulate further interdisciplinary work in adolescence and addiction research. Adolescent Drinking and Family Lifewill be invaluable to researchers and practitioners in adolescence, family dynamics, and alcohol as well as any social scientist with an interest in the link between behaviour and the home environment. This new approach has important implications for health education and for interventions concerned with adolescent alcohol use. This highly illustrated and tabulated book portrays teenage drinking, not as a symptom of pa