The quarter-life time period: An age of indulgence, crisis or both?

Contemporary Family Therapy

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 233-250

  Atwood, Joan D ^a   Scholtz, Corinne ^b  

^a Marriage and Family Therapists of New York   (United States)

^b NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affluent society; Late adolescent issues; Quarterlife time period; Stage of development; Therapy implications; Typology of quarterlifers

Indexed keywords

EID: 53549092513     PISSN: 08922764     EISSN: 15733335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10591-008-9066-2     Document Type: Article

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