The Prevention and Intervention Topic Network wants to provide a community and support for scholars and practitioners interested in prevention of mental health disorders and intervention topics among emerging adults.
Author: SSEA
Psychotherapy
The Psychotherapy TN is a forum dedicated to aspects of the clinical practice (psychotherapy) for emerging adults (or their families). We wish to create a discussion about the theory and practice of Psychotherapy and consultation with emerging adults and their families. The TN will provide an opportunity to share information, views, and therapeutic experience among the members and develop new ideas on psychotherapy for emerging adults and their families. In addition, we, the TN, will assist in collaboration on projects, research, and dissemination that improves clinical outcomes while establishing bridges and synchrony between SSEA-rich research on EA and clinical practice.
Religion and Spirituality
Student Affairs
The Student Affairs topic network provides a community for scholars, researchers, and practitioners of student affairs. We look forward to connecting with you to support professional interests and explore potential opportunities for collaboration.
Work and Career
The Work and Career topic network is focused on work and career development in its broad sense, encompassing emerging adults’ transition to and engagement in educational and occupational roles, along with the connections between these roles and other aspects of life. This focus includes emerging adults who have entered the workforce and those who have not yet entered the workforce.
Young Adult Development at the School-to-Work Transition
International Pathways and Processes
The Romantic Lives of Emerging Adults
Getting from I to We
A New Lens on Emerging Adulthood
A New Lens on Emerging Adulthood: Fluidity as the Path to Settling Down
The Life Story, Domains of Identity, and Personality Development in Emerging Adulthood
Integrating Narrative and Traditional Approaches
The Experience of Emerging Adulthood Among Street-Involved Youth
This volume utilizes the emergent adulthood framework to further our understanding of marginalized youth in contemporary societies. Using data from a longitudinal study named Risky Business, the authors outline the fundamental characteristics of emerging adulthood through the lens of stories of street-involved youth. These stories inform an understanding of the powerfulness of emerging adulthood theory as a “process;” in particular, they illustrate emerging adults’ view of adulthood as comprised of a) accepting responsibility for oneself, b) making independent decisions, and c) becoming financially independent. Further, street-involved youth experience and practice emerging adulthood, and then adulthood, unusually early and under unusual[…]
