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Adolescent Drinking and Family Life, Hardback Book

Adolescent Drinking and Family Life Hardback

Part of the Routledge Library Editions: The Adolescent series

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Originally published in 1993, Adolescent Drinking and Family Life portrays teenage drinking, not as a symptom of pathology, but as a perfectly normal developmental phase within the context of the home environment.

Drinking is predominantly social behaviour and the family is seen as a major agent of socialization.

The authors have therefore explored family dynamics and the influence which the home environment has upon adolescent drinking to come up with a new theoretical model. 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 interdisciplinary work in adolescence and addiction research. Adolescent Drinking and Family Life will be interesting 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 had important implications for health education and for interventions concerned with adolescent alcohol use at the time.

Today it can be read in its historical context.

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