This invaluable resource offers an accessible synthesis of research, theories, and perspectives on the family processes that contribute to development presenting cutting-edge conceptual and empirical work on the key developmental tasks and challenges in the transition between adolescence and adulthood.

Introduction to the Volume. Patricia K. Kerig and Marc S. Schulz ; Section I. SELF-DEVELOPMENT AND REGULATORY PROCESSES ; Introduction to Section I ; Chapter 1. Regulating Emotion in Adolescence: A Cognitive-Mediational Conceptualization, Marc S. Schulz and Richard S. Lazarus ; Chapter 2. Risk and Protective Factors for Suicidality during the Transition to Adulthood: Parenting, Self-Regulatory Processes, and Successful Resolution of Stage-Salient Tasks, Daria Boeninger and Rand D. Conger ; Chapter 3. The Status of Identity: Developments in Identity Status Research, Jane Kroger ; Section II. FRIENDSHIP AND INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS ; Introduction to Section II ; Chapter 4. The Quality of Friendships during Adolescence: Patterns across Context, Culture, and Age, Niobe Way and Lisa R. Silverman ; Chapter 5. The Intergenerational Transmission of Adolescent Romantic Relationships, Shmuel Shulman, Miri Scharf, and Lital Shachar-Shapira ; Chapter 6. Autonomy with Connection: Influences of Parental Psychological Control on Mutuality in Emerging Adults' Close Relationships, Patricia K. Kerig, Julie A. Swanson, and Rose Marie Ward ; Section III. SHIFTS IN FAMILY ROLES AND RELATIONSHIPS ; Introduction to Section III ; Chapter 7. Sociocultural Perspectives on Adolescent Autonomy, Kathleen Boykin McElhaney and Joseph P. Allen ; Chapter 8. "Mama, I'm a Person, Too!": Individuation and Young African-American Mothers' Parenting Competence, Laura D. Pittman, Lauren S. Wakschlag, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn ; Chapter 9. Young Fathers and the Transition to Parenthood: An Interpersonal Analysis of Paternal Outcomes, Paul Florsheim and David R. Moore ; Section IV. LIFE EVENTS AND CHALLENGING CONTEXTS ; Introduction to Section IV ; Chapter 10. Exceptional Outcomes: Using Narratives and Family Observations to Understand Resilience, Stuart T. Hauser, Joseph P. Allen, and Marc S. Schulz ; Chapter 11. Sexual-minority Identity Development in the Family Context, Lisa M. Diamond, Molly R. Butterworth, and Kendrick Allen ; Chapter 12. Resilience and Vulnerability of Mexican Origin Youth and their Families: A Test of a Culturally-Informed Model of Family Economic Stress, Rand D. Conger, Hairong Song, Gary D. Stockdale, Emilio Ferrer, Keith F. Widaman, and Ana M. Cauce ; Chapter 13. Psychiatric hospitalization: The utility of using archival records to understand the lives of adolescent patients, Karin M. Best and Stuart T. Hauser ; Conclusion. Looking Beyond Adolescence: Translating Basic Research into Clinical Practice, Patricia K. Kerig and Marc S. Schulz

"This volume explores current understanding of how adolescent development in the family context sets the stage for adulthood. Contributors (many are members of the NIMH Family Research Consortium) strove to be forward-looking rather than to provide simply a review of past research. A focus on contextual diversity and a framework focusing on developmental psychopathology and appreciation of diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives unite the chaptersEL Summing up: Recommended." -- R.B. Steward Jr., Oakland University

"This volume explores current understanding of how adolescent development in the family context sets the stage for adulthood. Contributors (many are members of the NIMH Family Research Consortium) strove to be forward-looking rather than to provide simply a review of past research. A focus on contextual diversity and a framework focusing on developmental psychopathology and appreciation of diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives unite the chaptersEL Summing up: Recommended." -- R.B. Steward Jr., Oakland University

Selling point: Contributions by leading researchers on adolescence and family processes Selling point: Cutting-edge conceptual and empirical work on topics of keen interest in the current literature, including adolescent romantic relationships and emerging adulthood Selling point: Infused with attention to issues of ethnic, socioeconomic, and cultural diversity Selling point: For researchers, practitioners, and students in social, developmental, and clinical psychology, as well as those in social work, psychiatry, and pediatrics

Patricia Kerig, Ph.D. is a Professor and the Director of Clinical Training in the Department of Psychology at the University of Utah. Her research focuses on developmental psychopathology in the context of the family, and she is the author of a number of works concerning risk and resilience in children and adolescents exposed to family violence, interparental conflict, child maltreatment, and trauma. Marc S. Schulz, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Clinical Developmental Psychology Program at Bryn Mawr College. He directs the Bryn Mawr Emotion and Family Research Center, where he studies couple relationships, emotion processes and change across time in individuals and families. He is also a senior investigator for the Study of Adult Development, a 60-year old longitudinal study at Harvard University. Stuart T. Hauser, MD, Ph.D. was a Professor of Psychiatry at Judge Baker Children's Center and Harvard Medical School.

Selling point: Contributions by leading researchers on adolescence and family processes Selling point: Cutting-edge conceptual and empirical work on topics of keen interest in the current literature, including adolescent romantic relationships and emerging adulthood Selling point: Infused with attention to issues of ethnic, socioeconomic, and cultural diversity Selling point: For researchers, practitioners, and students in social, developmental, and clinical psychology, as well as those in social work, psychiatry, and pediatrics