Adolescent Portraits: Identity, Relationships, and Challenges . - 4th ed - book review

Adolescence, Spring, 2003

GARROD, Andrew, SMULYAN, Lisa, POWERS, Sally, & KILKENNY, Robert. Adolescent Portraits: Identity, Relationships, and Challenges (4th ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2002. 319pp. $38.00 (p).

These eighteen cases represent a fascinating cross-section of contemporary adolescence. The cases cover a variety of issues, including family and peer relationships, eating disorders, self-image, illness, child abuse, drugs and alcohol, ethnicity, pregnancy and abortion, school, sexuality, and women's identity.