Psychosocial Development during Adolescence

Taking a developmental contextualist perspective and with a focus on social class ethnicity and gender this impressive collection explores how research on adolescent psychosocial development has unfolded from the 1970s to the present. </p><p></p><p>The contributors examine such topics as: autonomy in adolescence and the detachment debate; sexuality from trends in gender sexual scripts to sexual offences such as date rape; intimacy from individual differences to interpersonal situations; achievement from the school or workplace to social settings; identity including the role of culture; cognitive behaviours including education for and constraints on critical thinking; and the interplay of biological and psychological processes.