Ethical and Policy Applications of Life Span Development: Antibullying Legislation and retitled as Applying Developmental Science: Antibullying Legislation
Updated and streamlined coverage of Parent–Child Relationships and Siblings
Updated coverage of Cultural Influences on Development: China’s One-Child Policy
Updated and streamlined coverage of Same-Sex Parented Families, Single-Parent Families, and Cohabiting Families
Updated and retitled as Divorce and Divorcing Families
Updated coverage of Stepfamilies and retitled as Blended Famlies
Updated and rewrote coverage of Common Fears and Anxiety, retitling it as School Refusal
Updated and reorganized Child Sexual Abuse
Updated and rewrote coverage of Resilience
Updated and rewrote Lives in Context: Exposure to War and Terrorism and Children’s Development
Chapter 11
Updated and integrated Popular Views of Adolescence: Storm and Stress into Is Adolescence a Period of Storm and Stress?
Updated and streamlined coverage of Adolescent Moodiness
Updated and reorganized coverage of Puberty into Changes in Body Size and Shape, Sexual Characteristics, and Sexual Maturation
New Cultural Influences on Development: Menarche Rituals of the !Xoo
Updated coverage of Psychosocial Effects of Early and Late Puberty and revised to Psychosocial Effects of Pubertal Timing, expanding coverage of context
Updated Puberty and Sleep Patterns
Updated and rewrote Nutrition and Development
Updated Brain Development in Adolescence and expanded to include the dual-systems model
Updated Socioemotional Perception
Updated and rewrote Risk Taking
Updated Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental Theory and Information Processing Theory
Updated and streamlined Implications of Adolescent Thinking
Updated, revised, and retitled Ethical and Policy Applications of Lifespan Development: Legal Implications of Adolescent Decision Making as Applying Developmental Science: Legal Implications of Adolescent Decision Making
New Lives in Context: Volunteer Work and Social Responsibility
Updated coverage of School Transitions
Updated and expanded Applying Developmental Science: School Dropout and integrated it into the text
Chapter 12
Updated and streamlined coverage of Self-Concept and Self-Esteem
Updated and rewrote coverage of Identity, including Identity Statuses, Influences on Identity Development, Outcomes Associated With Identity Development, and Ethnic Identity
New Cultural Influences on Development: Cultural Views of Gender
Updated and rewrote coverage of Parent–Adolescent Conflict
Updated and differentiated Parenting Style and Monitoring into separate sections, Parenting and Parental Monitoring
Updated coverage of Friendships and Cliques and Crowds
Updated and reorganized coverage of Peer Conformity
Updated and rewrote coverage of Dating
Updated Sexuality and Influences on Sexual Activity, combined into one section, Sexuality, and expanded to include topics such as ethnic differences, timing, sexting, and risk factors
Updated and rewrote coverage of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Adolescents
Updated and streamlined coverage of Contraceptive Use, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Adolescent Pregnancy
Updated and reorganized Depression and Suicide, Eating Disorders, and Alcohol and Substance Use
Chapter 13
New coverage of Emerging Adulthood: Transition to Adulthood
New Cultural Influences on Development: Emerging Adulthood and Culture
Updated and reorganized Physical Development, retitling it as Physical Changes
New Brain and Biological Influences on Development: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Athletes
Updated coverage of Fertility and Reproductive Capacity
Updated coverage of Overweight and Obesity to include contextual influences on obesity
Updated coverage of Physical Activity
New coverage of Sexual Activity
New coverage of Sexual Coercion
Updated and reorganized coverage of Substance Abuse, including rewritten coverage of Alcohol Use and Abuse and Marijuana
New Applying Developmental Science: Marijuana Legalization
Updated coverage of Epistemic Cognition and reorganized into Postformal Reasoning
New coverage of Evaluating Cognitive-Developmental Approaches to Adult Development
Updated and streamlined coverage of Developmental Impact of Attending College
New coverage of First-Generation College Students
Updated and revised coverage of Nontraditional College Students
Updated and streamlined coverage of The Forgotten Third
Updated and revised Stages of Vocational Development, retitled as Occupational Stages
Updated and expanded Influences on Vocational Choice to include SES and parental influence
New coverage of Transition to Work and Diversity in the Workplace
New coverage of Work and Family
Chapter 14
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