Thriving in Childhood and Adolescence / J-B CAD Single Issue Child & Adolescent Development Bd.132 (PDF)

Opening with a discussion on the need to integrate self-regulationprocesses and to create a life-span oriented framework of theseprocesses, this volume explores several perspectives in the currentscholarship. Chapter contributors examine theoretical conceptsincluding
* Vygotsky/Luria Insights in the Development of ExecutiveFunctions
* Self-Regulation and Academic Achievement in Elementary SchoolChildren
* Influences of Children?s and Adolescents? Action-ControlProcesses on School Achievement, Peer Relationships, and Copingwith Challenging Life Events
* Intentional Self-Regulation, Ecological Assets, and Thriving inAdolescence: A Developmental Systems Model
* and a Life-Span, Relational, Public Health Model of Self-Regulation: Impact on Individual and Community Health
The volume concludes with New Directions for Child andAdolescent Development series editor-in-chief Reed W.Larson discussing the challenges reported by youth working on arts,technology, and social justice projects in organized programs andhow they learn to address them.

This is the 133nd volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly reportseries New Directions for Child and AdolescentDevelopment. The mission of this series is to providescientific and scholarly presentations on cutting edge issues andconcepts in the field of child and adolescent development. Eachvolume focuses on a specific new direction or research topic, andis edited by an expert or experts on that topic.