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| Table of Contents | |
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| Features | |
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| Preface | |
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| The Social Context of Adolescence | |
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| Approaches To Studying Adolescence | |
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| The Changing Face of American Adolescence | |
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| Our Evolving Society | |
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| CROSS-CULTURAL CONCERNSThe Major Issues Facing the World�s Adolescents | |
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| The Evolving Prolongation of Adolescence | |
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| Evolving Communication and Information Technologies | |
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| The Internet | |
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| Cell Phones | |
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| Evolving World of Work and Consumption | |
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| Longer Workdays | |
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| Working Women | |
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| Adolescent Employment | |
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| Adolescent Consumption | |
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| Evolving Educational Imperatives | |
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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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| Evolving Family Constellations | |
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| Changes in Marriage and Parenthood | |
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| Changes in Family Dynamics | |
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| The Evolving Sexual Landscape | |
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| Positive Effects of the Sexual Revolution | |
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| Negative Effects of the Sexual Revolution | |
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| Evolving Safety Concerns | |
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| Violent Crime | |
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| Violence in Society | |
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| Research Highlight Computer Games | |
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| Violence in the Home | |
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| Violent Deaths | |
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| Understanding Adolescence: Research Methods | |
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| Correlations | |
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| True vs. Quasi-Experiments | |
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| Research Designs that Measure Developmental Change | |
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| Research Highlight | |
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| Teens Who Kill Family Members | |
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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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| 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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| Research Highlight | |
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| Scaffolding in Course-Related Bulletin Boards | |
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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: Ecological Systems Theory | |
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| Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: Anthropological Views | |
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| Personal Issues | |
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| When Do Adolescents Become Adults? | |
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| Research Highlight | |
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| How Troubled Are Adolescents? | |
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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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| Research Highlight | |
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| Those Who Make It | |
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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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| Cross-Cultural Concerns | |
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| An Example of Cross-Cultural Conflict --; Chinese American Adolescent Dating | |
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| Immigrants and Refugees | |
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| Southeast Asian Refugee Experience | |
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| Cross-Cultural Concerns | |
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| Comparison of Traditional Asian Values and Urban Industrial Values | |
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| Body Issues: Physical Growth and Health-Related Behaviors | |
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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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| Personal Issues | |
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| Use of Steroids by Athletes | |
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| The Cowper�s Glands | |
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| Cognitve Develoment: Improvements in Thinking, Reasoning, and Decision Making | |
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| Self-Concept, Identity, Ethnicity, and Gender | |
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| The Development of Moral Values | |
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| Religion | |