Adolescents embody the best hopes of American society. Their vital
role in shaping our future lends particular significance to their
success in negotiating the passage from childhood to adulthood,
while their intensity and visibility often make them barometers of
social change. It is all the more remarkable, then, that this
critical period has only recently captured the full attention of
researchers.
"At the Threshold" presents the long-awaited findings of the
Carnegie Foundation study on adolescence. It offers a comprehensive
overview of what investigators are learning about normal
development and provides an interdisciplinary synthesis of research
into the biological, social, and psychological changes occurring
during this key stage in the life span. While focusing on the
contexts of adolescent life - social and ethnic, family and school,
leisure and work-it also addresses how researchers are doing in the
effort to understand the intersection of processes that initiate
and sustain adolescent development and to characterize the
extraordinary changes that occur during these years.
Contrary to popular belief, large numbers of young people
continue to mature into productive members of society. "At the
Threshold" seeks to allow professionals and nonprofessionals alike
important access to the reality of normal adolescent experience.
The authors recognize that only if we begin to understand and
clearly articulate the parameters of successful adolescent
development can we hope to intervene with those individuals whose
lives seem aimed toward unsatisfactory futures.
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