Girls at Risk: Swedish Longitudinal Research on Adjustment

195 Pages·2013·1.39 MB·English

by  Anna-Karin Andershed (auth.)

Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development
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Anna-Karin Andershed
Editor
Girls at Risk
Swedish Longitudinal Research
on Adjustment
Editor
Anna-Karin Andershed
Center for Criminologial Research
Örebro University
Örebro, Sweden
ISBN 978-1-4614-4129-8 ISBN 978-1-4614-4130-4 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-4130-4
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Contents
1 Girls at Risk in Their Own Right ............................................................ 1
Anna-Karin Andershed
2 Adolescent and Adult Implications of Girls’ Pubertal Timing ............. 9
Therése Skoog
3 Eating Disorders and Self-Esteem ........................................................... 35
Elisabeth Welch and Ata Ghaderi
4 Prevention of Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescent Girls ............. 57
Britt-Marie Treutiger and Lene Lindberg
5 Understanding Violence in Girls with Substance
Misuse Problems ....................................................................................... 79
Bonamy R. Oliver and Sheilagh Hodgins
6 Life-Span Continuity in Female Aggression and Violence .................... 105
Anna-Karin Andershed and Debra J. Pepler
7 A Life-Course Perspective on Girls’ Criminality ................................... 119
Frida Andersson, Sten Levander, and Marie Torstensson Levander
8 What Works for Girls with Conduct Problems? .................................... 139
Pia Enebrink
9 The Trouble with “Troubled Girls” ......................................................... 167
Margareta Hydén and Carolina Øverlien
Index ................................................................................................................. 185
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About the Editor

Anna-Karin Andershed, Ph.D ., is a senior lecturer in psychology at Örebro
University, Sweden. Her current research interests are adjustment and socialization
processes from a life-span perspective with a special focus on girls and women, the
development of antisocial behavior and aggression, structured assessment of risk
and protective factors, and interventions, where she combines basic and applied
research. She is co-PI of two large-scale longitudinal projects—the IDA program
and the SOFIA study, and has developed an instrument for structured assessment of
children with or at risk for norm-breaking behavior, ESTER-assessment. She is also
currently the Head of the School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences at
Örebro University.
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Contributors
Anna-Karin Andershed , Ph.D. Center for Criminological Research, School of
Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Örebro University , Örebro , Sweden
Frida Andersson , BSc Department of Criminology , Malmö University , Malmö ,
Sweden
Pia Enebrink , Clinical Psychologist Ph.D. Department of Clinical Neuroscience ,
Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm , Sweden
Ata Ghaderi , Clinical Psychologist, Licensed Psychotherapist, Professor
Department of Psychology , Uppsala University , Uppsala , Sweden
Sheilagh Hodgins , Professor Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London ,
London , UK
Université de Montréal , Montréal , QC , Canada
Maria-Ungdom Research Centre , Stockholm , Sweden
Margareta Hydén , Ph.D. Department of Social and Welfare Studies , Linköping
University , Linköping , Sweden
Sten Levander , Professor Department of Criminology , Malmö University , Malmö ,
Sweden
Lene Lindberg , Associate Professor Division of Applied Public Health,
Department of Public Health Sciences , K arolinska Institutet , Stockholm , Sweden
Bonamy R. Oliver , Ph.D. MRC Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry
Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London , London , UK
Carolina Øverlien , Ph.D. Nasjonalt Kunnskapssenter om Vold og Traumatisk
Stress , Olso , Norway
Debra J. Pepler , Professor Department of Psychology , York University , Toronto ,
Ontario, Canada
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