Social Networks and Social Support in Childhood and Adolescence

The importance of the family and nonfamily networks and social support relationships of children and adolescents for their development and socialization, for their well-being and health has long been hypothesized. Nonetheless, childhood and adolescence - compared to adulthood and old age - have remained phases of the life cycle that have received little attention from support research. In turn, research on childhood and adolescence has been slow to take up the concepts of social networks and social support. For a long time, they remained unconsidered in concepts of friendship and the peer group. The authors of this volume have tried to overcome these deficits in these original papers, to link together the often uncoordinated and parallel lines of research, and to clarify the status of social support in childhood and adolescence theoretically, empirically, and with reference to practical intervention.

About the author

Dr. phil. habil. Frank Nestmann ist Professor für Beratung und Rehabilitation am Institut für Sozialpädagogik, Sozialarbeit und Wohlfahrtswissenschaften an der TU Dresden. Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte: Neue psychosoziale Beratungskonzepte und die Professionalisierung von Beratung, Soziale Netzwerke und Soziale Unterstützung, Alltägliche Helfer, Sozialpädagogik und Psychiatrie.

Klaus Hurrelmann lehrt in den Bereichen Gesundheits- und Bildungspolitik. Er gehört zu den bekanntesten Kindheits- und Jugendforschern in Deutschland und leitete von 1986 - 98 das Kooperationszentrum 'Health Behavior in School Children' der WHO. Nach langjähriger Tätigkeit an der Universität Bielefeld arbeitet er seit 2009 als Professor of Public Health and Education an der Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.

Product details

• Assisted by: Hurrelmann (Editor), Hurrelmann (Editor), Klaus Hurrelmann (Editor), Fran Nestmann (Editor), Frank Nestmann (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1994
• EAN: 9783110143607
• ISBN: 978-3-11-014360-7
• No. of pages: 441
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 38 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 890 g
• Illustrations: w. figs.
• Series: Prevention and Intervention in Childhood and Adolescence, Special Research Unit 227; Prevention and Intervention in Childhood and Adolescence, Special Research Unit 227; Prävention und Intervention im Kindes- und Jugendalter
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries