Front Cover -- The Adolescent Experience -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One: Welcome to the Study of Adolescence -- Chapter 1. Welcome to the Study of Adolescence -- A Historical Overview of Adolescence -- Developmental Contextualism -- North America's Multiculturalism -- A Preventive/Early Intervention Focus -- What Is Adolescence? -- Some Final Reflections -- Major Points to Remember -- Chapter 2. Theories and Research Methods -- Theories of Adolescent Behavior and Development -- Individuality and Relatedness -- Research Methods and the Scientific Process -- Summary -- Major Points to Remember -- Part Two: Patterns of Adolescent Development -- Chapter 3. Intellectual and Cognitive Development -- The Meaning of Intelligence -- Developmental Patterns in General Intellectual Growth -- Stages in Cognitive Development -- Intelligence and Social Information Processing -- Intellectual Differences and Diverse Youths -- A Critical Habit of Mind -- Social Intelligence: Beyond Academic IQ? -- Conclusion -- Major Points to Remember -- Chapter 4. Identity Development and Self-Concept -- Identity Development -- Self-Concept -- Summary -- Major Points to Remember -- Chapter 5. Gender Differences and Sex-Role Development -- The Movement toward Role Sharing -- Conceptualizing Gender Differences -- Theories of Sex-Role Development -- Correlates of Sex Roles -- Sex Roles and Personality -- Ethnicity and the Masculine Sex-Role Orientation -- The Influence of Society on Sex Roles -- Conclusion -- Major Points to Remember -- Chapter 6. Physical Growth and Sexual Development -- Physical and Biological Aspects of Puberty -- The Hormonal Basis of Puberty -- Body Development -- Sociocultural Aspects of Puberty -- Adolescent Sexuality: Two Perspectives -- Dating -- Contemporary Sexual Behavior -- Summary -- Major Points to Remember.

Part Three: Influences on Adolescent Development -- Chapter 7. The Family -- A Portrait of Family Relations -- Family Changes -- Diverse Families and Their Adolescents -- Summary -- Major Points to Remember -- Chapter 8. Peer, Leisure, and Work Experiences -- Peer Groups -- Developmental Changes in Influence and Involvement -- Peer Relations among Ethnic and Racial Minority Adolescents -- Adolescents, Peer Groups, and Their Use of Leisure Time -- Adolescents and Work -- Summary -- Major Points to Remember -- Chapter 9. Education -- The Development of the U.S. School System -- The Social Fabric of the School -- School and Family Influences on Learning -- Twenty-Five Years Later: A Nation at Risk and the Bell Curve -- And Then There Was Project 2000... Well Kind of -- Summary -- Positive Effects of Schooling -- Education, Careers, and the Future -- Truancy, Dropping Out, and School Violence -- School Contexts and Ethnic and Racially Diverse Youth -- Some Alternatives to the Present Educational System -- Summary -- Major Points to Remember -- Part Four: Dealing with Issues of Concern: Prevention and Treatment -- Chapter 10. Helping Adolescents: Intervention and Prevention -- Cardinal Rules -- Treatment and Rehabilitation -- Categories of Therapy -- Therapy Locations, the Medical Model, and Genes -- Schools of Therapy -- Diversity and Multiculturalism in the Therapeutic Setting: Psychotherapy with Ethnically Diverse Groups -- The Need for Therapeutic Multicultural Sensitivity -- Does Therapy Work? -- Primary Prevention and Its Technology -- Does Prevention Work? -- The Promise of Prevention in Working with Adolescents -- Summary -- Major Points to Remember -- Chapter 11. Adolescent Sexuality: Issues for Concern -- Adolescent Pregnancy -- Contraception -- Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- Summary -- Major Points to Remember.

Chapter 12. Substance Use and Abuse in Adolescence -- Historical Overview -- Alcohol -- Tobacco, Marijuana, Inhalants, Steroids, LSD, Stimulants, Barbiturates, Cocaine, and Heroin -- Implications for Treatment and Prevention -- Summary -- Major Points to Remember -- Chapter 13. Crime and Delinquency -- Historical Overview -- Perspectives on the Causes of Delinquency -- The Juvenile Court -- Violent Crime and Adolescence -- Can Delinquency Be Treated or Prevented? -- Summary -- Major Points to Remember -- Chapter 14. Eating Disorders -- Food (Not So) Glorious Food -- Theoretical Perspectives on Eating Disorders -- Anorexia Nervosa -- Bulimia -- Eating Disorders and Diverse Youth -- Implications for Treatment and Prevention -- Summary -- Major Points to Remember -- Chapter 15. Depression and Suicide in Adolescence -- Depression -- Suicide -- Summary -- Major Points to Remember -- Part Five: Parting Thoughts -- Chapter 16. Of Time and Soothsaying -- The Future and Adolescent Issues -- Summary -- References -- Photo Credits -- Index.