This text offers a blend of current research, theory, clinical perspectives, and topics that reflect modern adolescent life. Each chapter features adolescents discussing their opinions, hopes, concerns, and everyday issues. Adopting an ecological-interactional approach, the book provides coverage to the links between different domains of adolescent development: family, peer group, school, and community. The text emphasizes individual, gender, and cultural differences in development, while challenging stereotypical views of adolescents and cultural myths about adolescent development.