"Adolescence 18e provides extensive learning connections throughout the chapters. In addition to helping students make research and developmental connections, Adolescence shows the important connections between the concepts discussed and the real world"--
About the author -- A note from the author -- Introduction the study of adolescent development -- The fundamental changes of adolescence -- Biological transitions -- Cognitive transitions -- Social transitions -- The contexts of adolescence -- Families -- Peer groups -- Schools -- Work, leisure, and media -- Psychosocial development during adolescence -- Identity -- Autonomy -- Intimacy -- Sexuality -- Achievement -- Psychosocial problems in adolescence -- Glossary -- References -- Credits -- Name index -- Subject index
Abstract This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, "Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies," revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; others describe a term of art from another discipline or interdisciplinary area and show how it might relate to transgender studies. While far from providing a complete picture of the field, these keywords begin to elucidate a conceptual vocabulary for transgender studies. Some of the submissions offer a deep and resilient resistance to the entire project of mapping the field terminologically; some reveal yet-unrealized critical potentials for the field; some take existing terms from canonical thinkers and develop the significance for transgender studies; some offer overviews of well-known methodologies and demonstrate their applicability within transgender studies; some suggest how transgender issues play out in various fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines.