Girls at Risk

Anna-Karin Andershed, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer in psychology at Örebro University, Sweden. Her current research interests are adjustment and socialization processes from a life-span perspective with a special focus on girls and women, the development of antisocial behavior and aggression, structured assessment of risk and protective factors, and interventions, where she combines basic and applied research. She is the PI of two large scale longitudinal projects – the IDA program and the SOFIA study, and has developed an instrument for structured assessment of children with or at risk for normbreaking behavior, ESTER-assessment. She is also currently the Head of the School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences at Örebro University.

• Chapter 1. Girls at Risk in their own Right; Anna-Karin Andershed.- Chapter 2. Adolescent and Adult Implications of Girls’ Pubertal Timing; Therése Skoog.- Chapter 3. Eating Disorders and Self-Esteem; Elisabeth Welch, Ata Ghaderi; Chapter 4. Prevention of Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescent Girls; Britt-Marie Treutiger, Lene Lindberg.- Chapter 5. Understanding Violence in Girls With Substance Misuse Problems; Bonamy R. Oliver, Sheilagh Hodgins.- Chapter 6. Life-Span Continuity in Female Aggression and Violence; Anna-Karin Andershed, Debra J. Pepler.- Chapter 7. A Life Course Perspective on Girls’ Criminality; Marie Torstensson Levander, Frida Andersson, Sten Levander.- Chapter 8. What Works For Girls With Conduct Problems?; Pia Enebrink.- Chapter 9. The Trouble With “Troubled Girls”; Margareta Hydén, Carolina Øverlien.

From the reviews: "Examining the lives of at-risk girls is an important undertaking. Anna-karin Andershed takes on this challenge in her edited volume, Girls at Risk: Swedish Longitudinal Research on Adjustment. In it, she includes a collection of studies conducted by scholars who focus on girls' involvement in aggression and violent behavior. The target audience includes researchers, clinicians, and other practitioners who work with high-risk females." (Norman A. White, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 58 (45), November, 2013)