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| Contents Features | |
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| Preface | |
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| Adolescence | |
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| Adolescents in Social Context | |
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| Approaches to Studying Adolescence | |
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| The Changing Face of American Adolescence | |
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| Our Society in Revolution | |
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| The Prolongation of Adolescence | |
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| The Revolution in Information Technology | |
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| The Internet | |
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| Potential Hazards of Internet Use | |
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| The Revolution in the Workplace | |
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| Multiple Jobholders and Overtime Work | |
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| Working Women | |
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| Adolescent Employment | |
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| Advertising and Consumption | |
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| The Education Revolution | |
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| Educational Attainment | |
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| Embracing the New Technology | |
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| Innovations in Career Education | |
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| The Family Revolution | |
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| Changes in Marriage and Parenthood | |
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| Changes in Family Dynamics | |
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| The Sexual Revolution | |
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| Positive Effects of the Sexual Revolution | |
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| Negative Effects of the Sexual Revolution | |
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| The Violence Revolution 17 | |
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| Violent Crime | |
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| Violence in Society | |
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| Violence in the Home | |
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| Violent Deaths | |
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| A Caveat to Understanding Adolescence | |
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| Adolescents in Theoretical Context | |
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| Biological Views of Adolescence | |
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| G. Stanley Hall: Sturm und Drang | |
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| Arnold Gesell: Spiral Growth Patterns | |
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| Psychoanalytical and Psychosocial Views of Adolescence | |
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| Sigmund Freud: Individuation | |
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| Anna Freud: Defense Mechanisms | |
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| Erik Erikson: Ego Identity | |
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| Cognitive Views of Adolescence | |
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| Jean Piaget: Adaptation and Equilibrium | |
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| Robert Selman: Social Cognition | |
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| Lev Vygotsky: Social Influences on Cognition | |
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| Social-Cognitive Learning View of Adolescence | |
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| Albert Bandura: Social Learning Theory | |
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| Social-Cognitive Theory | |
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| The Impact of Culture on Adolescents | |
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| Robert Havighurst: Developmental Tasks | |
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| Kurt Lewin: Field Theory | |
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| Urie Bronfenbrenner: An Ecological Model | |
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| Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: Anthropological Views | |
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| Adolescent Diversity: Socioeconomic Status and Ethnicity | |
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| Adolescents of Low Socioeconomic Status | |
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| Limitations of Low Socioeconomic Status | |
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| Cycle of Poverty and Deprivation | |
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| Minority Adolescents | |
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| African American Adolescents | |
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| Latino Adolescents | |
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| Native American Adolescents | |
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| Asian-American Adolescents | |
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| Immigrants and Refugees | |
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| Southeast Asian Refugee Experience | |
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| Physical | |
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| Body Issues: Sexual Maturation and Physical Growth | |
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| Biochemical Basis of Puberty | |
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| The Hypothalamus | |
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| The Pituitary Gland | |
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| The Gonads | |
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| The Adrenal Glands | |
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| Sex Hormone Regulation in Males | |
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| Sex Hormone Regulation in Females | |
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| Maturation and Functions of Male Sex Organs | |
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| Spermatogenesis | |
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| The Developing Penis | |
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| The Cowpers Glands 81 | |
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| Nocturnal Emissions | |
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| Maturation and Functions of Female Sex Organs | |
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| The Developing Vagina | |
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| Changes in the Vulva and Uterus | |
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| Ovarian Changes | |
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| Menarche and the Menstrual Cycle | |
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| Menstrual Concerns | |
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| Development of Secondary Sexual Characteristics | |
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| Males | |
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| Females | |
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| Results of Sexual Maturation | |
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| Growth in Height and Weight | |
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| Growth Trends | |
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| Determinants of Height | |
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| Other Physical Changes | |
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| Body Issues: Health-Related Behaviors and Attitudes | |
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| Health Status | |
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| Mortality | |
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| Health Decisions | |
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| Adolescent Health in the Third World | |
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| Body Image | |
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| Physical Attractiveness | |
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| Body Types and Ideals | |