ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT: Challenges and Opportunities for Research, Programs, and Policies
Abstract
The basic process of adolescent development involves changing relations between the individual and the multiple levels of the context within which the young person is embedded. Variation in the substance and timing of these relations promotes diversity in adolescence and represents sources of risk or protective factors across this life period. The key risk factors of the contemporary American adolescent period are discussed. Behavioral risks involve drug, alcohol, and substance use and abuse; unsafe sex, teenage pregnancy, and teenage parenting; school underachievement, failure, and dropout; and delinquency, crime, and violence. Poverty among youth exacerbates these risks. The features of youth programs effective in preventing the actualization of risk or in promoting positive adolescent development are discussed, as are the characteristics of public policies that may enhance the life chances of the diverse youth of America and the world.
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Adolescence is a life stage during which issues of acceptance and rejection are especially salient.
“Adolescence is a life stage during which issues of acceptance and rejection are especially salient (Cauce, Mason, Gonzales, Hiraga, & Liu, 1994;Lerner & Galambos, 1998).”
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- Authors
- Lerner, R. M., & Galambos, N. L.
- Affiliations
- Boston College (US)
- University of Victoria (CA)
- Venue
- Annual Review of Psychology
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 1998-02
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 413-446
- ISSN
- 0066-4308 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-2085
- OpenAlex
- W2102151574
- Cited by
- 515
- References
- 169
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- FWCI
- 15.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Annual Review of Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Youth Development and Social Support
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Adolescent Health and Behaviors
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- adolescent development, risk factors, protective factors, substance use, adolescent alcohol use, adolescent pregnancy, school dropout, academic underachievement, juvenile delinquency, low-income youth, youth programs, prevention programs, youth policy, developmental context
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Psychology, Adolescent, Female, Growth, Health Policy, Health Promotion, Humans, Juvenile Delinquency, Personality Development, Poverty, Pregnancy, Pregnancy in Adolescence, Risk Factors, Risk-Taking, United States, Adolescent Health Services, Substance-Related Disorders
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