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Book SynopsisKim Dolgin received her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Pennsylvania. She majored in biology and physical anthropology as an undergrad, completed a masters in evolutionary biology, and then went on for a Ph.D. in psychology there. Her first full-time academic position was as an assistant professor at the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota, and it was there that she initially became interested in adolescent psychology. Later, she moved to Ohio Wesleyan University, where she continued to teach Adolescent Psychology, and also taught Child Psychology and Human Sexuality. She ended her teaching career at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, lecturing in both the College of Education and in the College of Science's psychology departments. Her research has spanned diverse topics: from comparative cognition to parent-child, sibling, and friendship relationships, to music perception, to the development of higher-ord
Table of Contents1. The Social Context of Adolescence
2. Adolescents in Theoretical Context
3. Adolescent Diversity
4. Body Issues
5. Cognitive Development
6. Self-Concept, Identity, Ethnicity, and Gender
7. The Development of Moral Values
8. Relationships with Family Members
9. Different Family Patterns
10. Being a Member of the Adolescent Subculture
11. Sexual Behaviors
12. Education and School
13. Work and Vocation
14. Adolescent Stress and Alienation
15. Substance Abuse, Addiction, and Dependency
16. Epilogue
