"This comprehensive book will be of interest to school teachers, school administrators, faculty members, students of teacher training institutes, scholars, academics, student counselors, and NGO personnel, working with children and adolescents. Apart from these, parents and students would also find this book very informative.
There are thirteen chapters in the book covering a wide range of important issues related to this phase. To begin with, the book has chapters that are exclusively invested to provide theoretical framework to the child-adolescent growth and development from multiple perspectives, to be later followed by chapters embedded with insights on various contemporary issues, faced particularly by this population. Findings regarding lack of proper knowledge and understanding about various aspects of reproductive health, role of parenting, academic burden, adolescent mental health, addiction and risk taking behaviors exhibited by adolescents, concerns of social relevance like trafficking and child marriage, are extensively discussed. "