Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: A Cultural Approach

This book takes a cultural approach to adolescent development, presenting information from a wide variety of cultures, within the United States and around the world. Covering a wider age range than most books, it discusses adolescents to emerging adults, providing readers with an extensive and lively exploration of how young people change as they develop. History of adolescence in Western cultures biological foundations of puberty cultural, social and psychological responses the puberty cognitive development cultural beliefs and socialization adolescents and gender the self family relationships friends and peers dating, love, and sexuality school work media problems. For psychologists or anyone else interested in adolescent development.