Browsing by Author "Payne, Monica A."
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“All Gas and No Brakes!”: Helpful metaphor or harmful stereotype?
(Sage, 2012)In this essay, I consider the concurrent emergence of a new generic metaphor for the adolescent condition and suggest that, given the familiar notions of a poorly controlled (or even totally out-of-control) state of being ... -
Are all teenagers emotionally illiterate? Charting a neuroscientific storying of normative deficit
(Routledge, 2012)Defining ‘emotional illiteracy’ is a task located within the broader context of expert (and subsequently public) assumptions regarding the normally expectable competencies of the age group concerned. In the late 1990s a ... -
Limitations unlimited: Interrogating some finer points of the 'scientific study' of adolescence
(Taylor & Francis, 2001)Radical epistemological critiques of developmental and social psychology are nothing new, and major methodological debates are now common even within the mainstream literature. Yet a considerable amount of research continues ... -
"Not right in the head": How should teachers assess new talk about teenagers?
(Faculty of Education, University of Waikato., 2011)Recently in New Zealand the Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor has warned of changing circumstances creating a "powder keg" during adolescence, another top government advisor is reported as claiming young people's ... -
Support and self-care: professional reflections of six New Zealand high school counselors
(Routledge, 2008)In many Western societies there is increasing demand for counselling; in turn, heightened levels of support needs have been identified for counsellors themselves. Despite calls for practitioners to adopt a more proactive ...
