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| Contents Features | p. xi |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Adolescence | |
| Adolescents in Social Context | p. 1 |
| Approaches to Studying Adolescence | p. 3 |
| The Changing Face of American Adolescence | p. 4 |
| Our Society in Revolution | p. 4 |
| The Prolongation of Adolescence | p. 7 |
| The Revolution in Information Technology | p. 7 |
| The Internet | ... MORE |
| Potential Hazards of Internet Use | p. 8 |
| The Revolution in the Workplace | p. 9 |
| Multiple Jobholders and Overtime Work | p. 9 |
| Working Women | p. 10 |
| Adolescent Employment | p. 10 |
| Advertising and Consumption | p. 11 |
| The Education Revolution | p. 11 |
| Educational Attainment | p. 11 |
| Embracing the New Technology | p. 11 |
| Innovations in Career Education | p. 12 |
| The Family Revolution | p. 12 |
| Changes in Marriage and Parenthood | p. 12 |
| Changes in Family Dynamics | p. 14 |
| The Sexual Revolution | p. 16 |
| Positive Effects of the Sexual Revolution | p. 16 |
| Negative Effects of the Sexual Revolution | p. 16 |
| The Violence Revolution 17 | |
| Violent Crime | p. 18 |
| Violence in Society | p. 18 |
| Violence in the Home | p. 19 |
| Violent Deaths | p. 19 |
| A Caveat to Understanding Adolescence | p. 19 |
| Adolescents in Theoretical Context | p. 24 |
| Biological Views of Adolescence | p. 26 |
| G. Stanley Hall: Sturm und Drang | p. 26 |
| Arnold Gesell: Spiral Growth Patterns | p. 27 |
| Psychoanalytical and Psychosocial Views of Adolescence | p. 27 |
| Sigmund Freud: Individuation | p. 27 |
| Anna Freud: Defense Mechanisms | p. 29 |
| Erik Erikson: Ego Identity | p. 30 |
| Cognitive Views of Adolescence | p. 32 |
| Jean Piaget: Adaptation and Equilibrium | p. 32 |
| Robert Selman: Social Cognition | p. 34 |
| Lev Vygotsky: Social Influences on Cognition | p. 36 |
| Social-Cognitive Learning View of Adolescence | p. 37 |
| Albert Bandura: Social Learning Theory | p. 37 |
| Social-Cognitive Theory | p. 38 |
| The Impact of Culture on Adolescents | p. 38 |
| Robert Havighurst: Developmental Tasks | p. 38 |
| Kurt Lewin: Field Theory | p. 40 |
| Urie Bronfenbrenner: An Ecological Model | p. 41 |
| Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: Anthropological Views | p. 42 |
| Adolescent Diversity: Socioeconomic Status and Ethnicity | p. 48 |
| Adolescents of Low Socioeconomic Status | p. 50 |
| Limitations of Low Socioeconomic Status | p. 51 |
| Cycle of Poverty and Deprivation | p. 51 |
| Minority Adolescents | p. 55 |
| African American Adolescents | p. 56 |
| Latino Adolescents | p. 60 |
| Native American Adolescents | p. 64 |
| Asian-American Adolescents | p. 67 |
| Immigrants and Refugees | p. 68 |
| Southeast Asian Refugee Experience | p. 69 |
| Physical | |
| Body Issues: Sexual Maturation and Physical Growth | p. 74 |
| Biochemical Basis of Puberty | p. 76 |
| The Hypothalamus | p. 76 |
| The Pituitary Gland | p. 76 |
| The Gonads | p. 77 |
| The Adrenal Glands | p. 78 |
| Sex Hormone Regulation in Males | p. 78 |
| Sex Hormone Regulation in Females | p. 78 |
| Maturation and Functions of Male Sex Organs | p. 79 |
| Spermatogenesis | p. 80 |
| The Developing Penis | p. 80 |
| The Cowpers Glands 81 | |
| Nocturnal Emissions | p. 82 |
| Maturation and Functions of Female Sex Organs | p. 82 |
| The Developing Vagina | p. 82 |
| Changes in the Vulva and Uterus | p. 82 |
| Ovarian Changes | p. 82 |
| Menarche and the Menstrual Cycle | p. 82 |
| Menstrual Concerns | p. 86 |
| Development of Secondary Sexual Characteristics | p. 87 |
| Males | p. 88 |
| Females | p. 88 |
| Results of Sexual Maturation | p. 90 |
| Growth in Height and Weight | p. 90 |
| Growth Trends | p. 91 |
| Determinants of Height | p. 91 |
| Other Physical Changes | p. 91 |
| Body Issues: Health-Related Behaviors and Attitudes | p. 94 |
| Health Status | p. 96 |
| Mortality | p. 96 |
| Health Decisions | p. 96 |
| Adolescent Health in the Third World | p. 98 |
| Body Image | p. 98 |
| Physical Attractiveness | p. 98 |
| Body Types and Ideals | p. 99 |
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