Developmental Science of Adolescence

Richard M. Lerner is the Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science and the Director of the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development at Tufts University, USA.Anne C. Petersen is the Founder and President of Global Philanthropy Alliance and Research Professor in the Center for Human Growth and Development at the University of Michigan, USA.Rainer K. Silbereisen is a Research Professor of Developmental Psychology and the Director of the Center for Applied Developmental Science (CADS) at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany.Jeanne Brooks-Gunn is the Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child Development and the Director of the National Center for Children and Families at Teachers College and the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, USA.

• The book consists of autobiographical chapters by the following leading developmental scientists: Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Robert Wm. Blum, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, B. Bradford Brown, Marlis Buchmann, John Bynner, John Coleman, Rand D. Conger, James E. Côté, William Damon, Sanford M. Dornbusch, Nancy Eisenberg, Glen H. Elder, Jr., David P. Farrington, Helmut Fend, Andrew J. Fuligni, Frank F. Furstenberg, Beatrix A. Hamburg, Stephen F. Hamilton, Karen Hein, Klaus Hurrelmann, Richard Jessor, Daniel P. Keating, Reed W. Larson, Richard M. Lerner, Iris F. Litt, David Magnusson, Rolf Oerter, Daniel Offer, Augusto Palmonari, Anne C. Petersen, Lea Pulkkinen, Jean E. Rhodes, Linda M. Richter, Hans-Dieter Rösler, Michael Rutter, Ritch C. Savin-Williams, John Schulenberg, Lonnie R. Sherrod, Rainer K. Silbereisen, Judith G. Smetana, Margaret Beale Spencer, Laurence Steinberg, Elizabeth J. Susman, Richard E. Tremblay, Suman Verma, and Bruna Zani.

"...[T]he historiographical format of The Developmental Science of Adolescence could bea useful approach to apply also in other fields. Certainly this chock-full volume makes forthought-provoking reading..." --Sherry Lynn Hatcher, PsycCRITIQUES