Substantial Increase in Material on Emerging Adulthood. Responding to the dramatic increase in research on emerging adulthood (approximately 18- to 25-years of age), every chapter in this edition of Adolescence devotes more space to the new research and thinking about emerging adulthood.
Movement of brain discussion to Chapter 3 and expansion of coverage. Coverage of the brain now opens Chapter 3, The Brain and Cognitive Development, resulting in more attention to this rapidly increasing area of interest in adolescent development.
Integrated and Expanded Coverage of Health and Well-Being. The 12th edition integrates and expands the coverage of health, stress, and coping throughout the text, including new Health and Well-Being interludes in each chapter.
Reduction in Number of Chapters. This 12th edition has been reduced from 15 chapters to 13. Chapters 1 and 2 in now comprise a single chapter (Ch. 1), and the material from Chapter 15, Health, Stress, and Coping, has been integrated and expanded throughout the text rather than relegated to a single chapter.
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