Vincent Guilamo-Ramos is professor of social work at New York University and the principal investigator of numerous NIH and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded research studies focused on urban minority youth and the prevention of adolescent problem behavior. James Jaccard is professor of psychology at Florida International University and a widely published expert on parent-adolescent communication. Patricia Dittus is a health scientist in the Division of Adolescent and School Health at the CDC. Her research focuses on effective parenting interventions aimed at reducing adolescent risk behaviors.

• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction, by Vincent Guilamo-Ramos and James Jaccard Part I: Contemporary Issues in Parental Monitoring 1. Parental Monitoring: A Critical Examination of the Research, by Hakan Stattin, Margaret Kerr, and Lauree Tilton-Weaver 2. Developmental and Interactional Antecedents of Monitoring in Early Adolescence, by Robert D. Laird, Matthew M. Marrero, and Jennifer K. Sherwood 3. Impediments to Parental Monitoring in the After-School Hours: A Qualitative Analysis, by Deborah Belle and Brenda Phillips 4: Cross-Cultural Analysis of Parental Monitoring and Adolescent Problem Behavior: Theoretical Challenges of Model Replication When East Meets West, by Sonia Venkatraman and Thomas J. Dishion 5. When Is Parenting Over? Examining Parental Monitoring and High-risk Alcohol Consumption in Young Adult College Students, by Rob Turrisi and Anne E. Ray 6. From Research to Practice: Development and Scaling Up of ImPACT, by a Parental Monitoring Intervention for African American Parents of Adolescents, by Jennifer S. Galbraith and Bonita Stanton 7. A Three-Process System of Parental Monitoring, by James Jaccard, by Vincent Guilamo-Ramos Part II. Expert Perspectives on Parental Monitoring List of Contributors Index