Although most individuals pass through adolescence without excessively high levels of
“storm and stress,“many do experience difficulty. Why? Is there something unique about this …

Abstract GS Hall's (1904) view that adolescence is a period of heightened “storm and stress”
is reconsidered in light of contemporary research. The author provides a brief history of the …

In recent decades, the lives of people in their late teens and twenties have changed so
dramatically that a new stage of life has developed. In his provocative work, Jeffrey Jensen …

This article examines the most important ideas to have emerged from the last 25 years of
research on adolescent development in the family context and suggests some directions for …

Parental monitoring has been conceptualized as tracking and surveillance but
operationalized as knowledge of daily activities. This study tested the tracking and …

In this chapter we review theoretical and empirical advances in research on adolescent
development in interpersonal and societal contexts. First, we identify several trends in …

The family's transition out of middle childhood brings with it a new set of issues and
concerns for parents and children that arise when the interpersonal equilibrium established …

This book provides an in-depth examination of adolescents' social development in the
context of the family. Grounded in social domain theory, the book draws on the author's …

Objective: This article offers a developmental perspective on college drinking by focusing on
broad developmental themes during adolescence and the transition to young adulthood …

Despite the fact that most people become parents and everyone who has ever lived has had
parents, parenting remains a mystifying subject about which almost everyone has opinions …