What's New

New Features:

New Content! Significant revision of material in health and well-being, biological foundations, transitions in development from childhood to adolescence and adolescence to adulthood, and the impact of culture and ethnicity on development.
Expert Consultants were involved in the revision to ensure that Adolescence is the most accurate and current text on the market.
More than 500 21^st century research citations.
Careers in Adolescent Development boxes feature interviews with professionals who describe opportunities in the field.
Learning Goals are stated at the beginning of each chapter to help focus student's study time on the big ideas in the chapter. The chapter review is presented in the context of these goals to reinforce learning.
Unique Cross-linkages are featured within the text of every chapter to refer students back to the primary discussion of key concepts to increase comprehension. This serves as a built-in review for students.
Chapter Maps appear several times throughout the chapter to help students visualize the relationship between concepts and the flow of material.
Free Student CD ROM designed to help students "make the grade" by bringing trademark pedagogical features to life using animations of existing text art, interactive interim/end-of-chapter reviews and providing students with multiple choice questions and feedback specific to the text and chapter.

Proven Features:

Through the Eyes of Adolescents appear one or more times in each chapter, providing a glimpse of the real worlds of teens struggling with issues like Anorexia (Ch. 14) or "Adolescents Who Hate School" (Ch. 7) through their own words.
Key Terms are now defined in the margin of the page on which they first appear making it easier for students to learn new vocabulary.
Key People feature summarizes important researchers and theorists at the end of each chapter to help students connect the people with the theories, concepts, and studies.
Through The Eyes of Psychologists feature quotes and insights from today's top developmental researchers in the field such as Eliot Aronson and James Jones. These passages bring researchers and their subjects to life for students.
Adolescence Resources provides students with brief end of chapter descriptions of recommended books for additional acquiring knowledge and insight about practical applications for helping adolescents reach their full potential.
Thinking Critically inserts appear periodically throughout the chapters to challenge students to expand their personal application of theories and research.

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