Taking a developmental contextualist perspective, and with a focus on social class, ethnicity and gender, this impressive collection explores how research on adolescent psychosocial development has unfolded from the 1970s to the present.
The contributors examine such topics as: autonomy in adolescence and the detachment debate; sexuality from trends in gender sexual scripts to sexual offences such as date rape; intimacy from individual differences to interpersonal situations; achievement from the school or workplace to social settings; identity, including the role of culture; cognitive behaviours, including education for and constraints on critical thinking; and the interplay of biological and psychological processes.

Psychosocial Development during Adolescence - Gerald R Adams, Raymond Montemayor and Thomas P Gullota
The Legacy of John Hill
Autonomy in Adolescence - Susan B Silverberg and Dawn M Gondoli
A Contextualized Perspective
Adolescent Sexual Development - Edward S Herold and Sheila K Marshall
Adolescence and Intimacy - Judith L Fischer, Joyce Munsch and Shannon M Greene
Identity - James E Coté
A Multidimensional Analysis
Domains of Adolescent Achievement - Sanford M Dornbusch, Melissa R Herman and Jeanne A Morley
Cognitive Socialization in Adolescence - Daniel P Keating and Doris K Sasse
Critical Period for a Critical Habit of Mind
Puberty - Sucheta D Connolly, Roberta L Paikoff and Christy M Buchanan
The Interplay of Biological and Psychosocial Processes in Adolescence
Reflections - Gerald R Adams
On the Past and the Future