Blackwell Handbook of Adolescence [Hardcover]

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List of Contributors viii

Introduction by the Editors xxi

Part I: Biological and Genetic Processes 1

1 Behavior Genetics and Adolescent Development: A Review of Recent Literature 3
Joseph Lee Rodgers and David E. Bard

2 Pubertal Processes and Physiological Growth in Adolescence 24
Andrea Bastiani Archibald, Julia A. Graber, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Part II: The Social Context of Adolescence 49

3 Religious Development in Adolescence 51
Geoffrey L. Ream and Ritch C. Savin-Williams

4 The Family Ecology of Adolescence: A Dynamic Systems Perspective on Normative Development 60
Isabela Granic, Thomas J. Dishion, and Tom Hollensteinl30