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Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Your Evolving Role as a Parent -- Times Have Changed -- Your Role Has Changed -- Adjusting Your Expectations -- Respecting Your Child's Autonomy -- "When I Was Your Age" -- Chapter 2: Growing Together -- To Bite, or Not to Bite -- Handling Your Own Unpleasant Emotions -- Resolving Disputes Constructively -- When You and Your Partner Disagree -- Chapter 3: Mental Health -- Young Adulthood Is a Vulnerable Period -- Common Mental Health Problems -- Getting Help -- Taking Care of Yourself -- Estrangement -- Chapter 4: Education -- Is College Worth It? -- Appropriate Involvement in Your Child's College Education -- Alternatives to Traditional College -- Visits Home from College -- Chapter 5: Finances -- Providing Financial Support -- Purse Strings -- Helping with a Home Purchase -- Discussing Your Personal Finances -- Chapter 6: Romance and Marriage -- Your Child's Sexuality -- Your Child's Choice of a Partner -- The Member of the Wedding -- How Your Child's Intimate Relationship May Change Your Relationship with Them -- Getting Along with Your Child's Partner -- Helping Your Child Handle Conflicts with Their Partner -- Chapter 7: Flourishing or Floundering? -- Is My Child Floundering? -- The Perpetual Student -- Uncertainty About a Career -- Still Single (After All These Years) -- When Your Child Moves Back Home -- Chapter 8: Grandparenthood -- How to Help the New Parents -- Giving Advice About Your Child's Parenting -- You and Your Grandchild -- Chapter 9: Summing Up and Looking Ahead -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Notes -- Index -- Copyright.

This article examines the most important ideas to have emerged from the last 25 years of research on adolescent development in the family context and suggests some directions for the future. Two major sets of questions organize the review. First, how can we best characterize normative family relationships during adolescence, and, more specifically, is adolescence a time of parent Ð child conflict? Second, how do variations in parent – child relationships affect the developing adolescent? The answer to the first question depends on what is meant by conflict and, more importantly, from whom one gathers data. There is a need for a new perspective on the family, one that emphasizes the different viewpoints and stakes that parents and adolescents bring to their relationship with each other. Special attention should be paid to studies of the mental health of parents of adolescents. With regard to the second question, it is argued that there is enough evidence to conclude that adolescents benefit from having parents who are authoritative: warm, firm, and accepting of their needs for psychological autonomy. Therefore, it would seem most beneficial to institute a systematic, large‐scale, multifaceted, and ongoing public health campaign to educate parents about adolescence, one that draws on the collective resources and expertise of health‐care professionals, scientists, governmental agencies, community organizations, schools, religious institutions, and the mass media.

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

"A leading authority draws on new research to explain why the adolescent years are so developmentally crucial, and what we must do to raise happier, more successful kids. Adolescence now lasts longer than ever before. And as world-renowned expert on adolescent psychology Dr. Laurence Steinberg argues, this makes these years the key period in determining individuals' life outcomes, demanding that we change the way we parent, educate, and understand young people. In Age of Opportunity, Steinberg leads readers through a host of new findings -- including groundbreaking original research -- that reveal what the new timetable of adolescence means for parenting 13-year-olds (who may look more mature than they really are) versus 20-somethings (who may not be floundering even when it looks like they are). He also explains how the plasticity of the adolescent brain, rivaling that of years 0 through 3, suggests new strategies for instilling self-control during the teenage years. Packed with useful knowledge, Age of Opportunity is a sweeping book in the tradition of Reviving Ophelia, and an essential guide for parents and educators of teenagers"--

In this article, we review the most important findings to have emerged during the past 10 years in the study of judgment and decision making (JDM) in adolescence and look ahead to possible new directions in this burgeoning area of research. Three inter‐related shifts in research emphasis are of particular importance and serve to organize this review. First, research grounded in normative models of JDM has moved beyond the study of age differences in risk perception and toward a dynamic account of the factors predicting adolescent decisions. Second, the field has seen widespread adoption of dual‐process models of cognitive development that describe 2 relatively independent modes of information processing, typically contrasting an analytic (cold) system with an experiential (hot) one. Finally, there has been an increase in attention to the social, emotional, and self‐regulatory factors that influence JDM. This shift in focus reflects the growing influence of findings from developmental neuroscience, which describe a pattern of structural and functional maturation that may set the stage for a heightened propensity to make risky decisions in adolescence.