Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Share Understanding Adolescents for Helping Professionals -- Chapter 1: Understanding Adolescent Development -- Chapter Overview -- Applied Questions to Think About -- What Is Development? -- Nature Versus Nurture -- Quantitative Growth Versus Qualitative Growth -- Early Versus Late Experiences -- Why Do We Study Adolescent Development? -- The Study of Adolescent Development: Past, Present, and Future -- What was Thought about Children? -- What was Thought about Adolescents? -- Present and Future -- Review of Chapter 1: Understanding Adolescent Development -- Chapter 2: Adolescent Developmental Theories -- Chapter Overview -- Applied Questions to Think About -- Intrapsychic Theories -- Psychodynamic Theories -- Post-Freudian Theories -- Humanistic Theory -- Cognitive Theories -- Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory -- Vygotsky's Social-Cultural Theory -- Information-Processing Theory -- Behavioral and Environmental Theories -- Behavioral Theory -- Social Cognitive Theory -- Ecological Theory -- Biological Theories -- Evolutionary Theory -- Ethological Theory -- Evolutionary Psychology -- Integrative Theories -- The Lifespan Theory -- Review of Chapter 2: Adolescent Developmental Theories -- Chapter 3: Research and Practice in Adolescent Development -- Chapter Overview -- Applied Questions to Think About -- The Importance of Research-Based Practice -- The Research Method -- Research Design -- Collecting Data -- Reviewing Results -- Sharing the Results with Others -- Evaluating the Science and Ethics of Research -- Careers in Adolescent Development -- Review of Chapter 3: Research and Practice in Adolescent Development -- Chapter 4: The Process of Puberty -- Chapter Overview -- Applied Questions to Think About -- The Beginning of Puberty -- The Timing of Puberty.

Off-Time Puberty -- Review of Chapter 4: The Process of Puberty -- Chapter 5: Body and Brain Development -- Chapter Overview -- Applied Questions to Think About -- External and Internal Physical Changes -- The Brain -- Review of Chapter 5: Body and Brain Development -- Chapter 6: Health and Nutrition -- Chapter Overview -- Applied Questions to Think About -- Overall Health -- Sleep -- Diet and Nutrition -- Review of Chapter 6: Health and Nutrition -- Chapter 7: Cognition, Thinking, and School -- Chapter Overview -- Applied Questions to Think About -- Piaget's Formal Operational Stage -- Hypothetical-Deductive Reasoning -- Abstract and Complex Thinking -- Thinking in Context -- Social Cognition -- Decision Making -- Educating Adolescents -- Learning at School -- Learning at Work -- Review of Chapter 7: Cognition, Thinking, and School -- Chapter 8: Psychosocial Development -- Chapter Overview -- Applied Questions to Think About -- Interacting Forces -- Understanding the Self -- Identity -- Identity Achievement and Confusion -- Marcia's Identity Statuses -- Identity Throughout Life -- Emotions -- Mood Swings -- Types of Emotions -- Review of Chapter 8: Psychosocial Development -- Chapter 9: The Social Network and the Modern World -- Chapter Overview -- Applied Questions to Think About -- Family -- Parents -- Siblings -- Grandparents -- Divorce -- Friends and Enemies -- Friends -- Peer Groups -- Relational Victimization -- Dating and Love -- Dating -- Early Sexual Activity -- Dating Violence -- TV and the Media -- Technology -- Cyberbullying -- Review of Chapter 9: The Social Network and the Modern World -- Chapter 10: Adolescent Problems -- Chapter Overview -- Applied Questions to Think About -- Externalizing Problems -- Substance Abuse -- Risky Sexual Behavior -- Other Risky Behaviors -- Internalizing Problems -- Depressive Moods -- Depression.

Suicide -- Eating Disorders -- Review of Chapter 10: Adolescent Problems -- Book Summary -- References -- Index.