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Sex, Brains, and Video Games
Information and Inspiration for Youth Services Librarians
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Sex, Brains, and Video Games
Information and Inspiration for Youth Services Librarians
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Index
A
Abbas, June, 140
abstinence
benefits of, 59, 63
Teach Safe Relationships Act of 2015 and, 52
access
adolescent brain development and, 89–90
Free Access to Libraries for Minors policy (ALA), 109
to sexual/reproductive health information, 49–55
“Active Shooter Policies in Libraries: ALA Annual 2016” (Sendaula), 172–173
Add Health, 45
addiction
to interactive technologies, 125
to video games, 128–129
adolescence
adolescent development, library and, xii–xiii
brain development in, 79–85
community understandings of, 17
contemporary, new look at, xii
definitions of, 2–3
diverse cultures, libraries’ information climates and, 23–25
information about, librarian use of, xxix–xxxi
phases of, xix
professions invested in, xx–xxii
redefinition of, 92
research literature, xxiii–xxix
Ronald Dahl on, 100–103
sexuality, development of, 33–34
teen brain, change and, 85–90
young adult, use of term, xix–xx
Adolescence (Hall), xv, xvii
adolescence, new
adolescence, definition of, 2–3
adolescents lead unhealthy lives myth, 8–9
demographic details about, 1–2
further reading on, 11–12
healthy communities for, 5–6
ideas about, shifting, 3–4
population of teens, 1
studies about, 2
teenagers are essentially adults myth, 4–5
teens hate their parents myth, 6–8
teens know technology best myth, 9
we can understand teens through media marketed to them myth, 9–11
The Adolescent Brain: A Work in Progress (Weinberger, Elvevag, & Giedd), 110–111
“Adolescent Brains Are Works in Progress” (Spinks), 110
adolescent psychology, xxii
adolescents
See teenagers
“Adolescents and Youth” (Urban Institute), 181
adulthood
teenagers are essentially adults myth, 4–5
young adult literature, support of move to, 22–23
affect, 100–101
Aftab, Parry, 150
age
of adolescence, 2–3
sexual activity and, 44
teenagers are essentially adults myth, 4–5
AIDS
See HIV/AIDS
ALA
See American Library Assoc...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One. The New Adolescence
- Two. Identity and Community
- Three. Sex and Sexualities
- Four. Changing Minds
- Five. Mediating the World
- Six. Working with Teens in Libraries
- Appendix A. Leading and Managing Youth Services
- Appendix B. Essential Reading for Young Adult Librarians
- Index
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