This book describes situations of stress among Israeli young people and examines their patterns of coping with these situations . It further discusses their willingness to seek help such situations and the type of help they expect to receive m formal and informal sources . Severalof the chapters also forward the perceptions of the significant adults in their lives , among them teachers and educational counselors . The book employs a variety of methodologies to examine stress experienced by these young people and the coping mechanisms they employ . Some of these methodologies are quantitative in nature and use statistics to describe types of stress and coping mechanisms and to examine how these correlate with the individual , social and cultural characteristics the population of young people . Others represent a range genres within the qualitative research paradigm , including henomenological studies , discourseanalysis , and critical selfstudy . Some of the studies in this book combine...
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