Connecting topical processes in development to guide students in making topical connections across different aspects of adolescent development.

Connecting research to what we know about development to provide students with the best and most recent theory and research in the world today about adolescence and emerging adulthood.

Connecting development to the real world to help students understand ways to apply content about adolescence and emerging adulthood to the real world and improve the lives of youth. The goal is to motivate them to think deeply about their own personal journeys of youth and better understand who they were, are, and will be.