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From award-winning author Tara L. Kuther comes Adolescence in Context, a topically oriented text that connects learners to the science that shapes our understanding of today′s teenagers and young adults. The book is organized around three core themes: the centrality of context, the importance of research, and the applied value of developmental science. The text presents classic research, current research, and foundational theories, which Kuther frames in real-life contexts such as gender, race and ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Students will come away with an understanding of the book's themes and material that they will immediately be able to apply to their own lives and future careers.

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A broad, accessible text that includes features that appeal to today's diverse college students. --Robert S. Weisskirch Accessible adolescent psych text that make deliberate effort to include cultural, critical and biological perspectives. --Kathryn E. Frazier The text does a nice job of discussion adolescent development within context. It integrates multiple developmental processes within the topic (e.g., how impulsiveness relates to media consumption). It's a good level for undergraduate and perhaps master's students. --Melinda A. Gonzales-Backen, Ph.D. This book is geared to the adolescent and helps them to understand the many facets of being an adolescent. It is engaging, contains unbiased and timely information. --Celeste Uthe-Burrow, Ed.D Topics are well organized. Research is presented fairly and both sides are represented. --Susan L. O'Donnell

"""A broad, accessible text that includes features that appeal to today′s diverse college students."" --Robert S. Weisskirch ""Accessible adolescent psych text that make deliberate effort to include cultural, critical and biological perspectives."" --Kathryn E. Frazier ""The text does a nice job of discussion adolescent development within context. It integrates multiple developmental processes within the topic (e.g., how impulsiveness relates to media consumption). It′s a good level for undergraduate and perhaps master′s students."" --Melinda A. Gonzales-Backen, Ph.D. ""This book is geared to the adolescent and helps them to understand the many facets of being an adolescent. It is engaging, contains unbiased and timely information."" --Celeste Uthe-Burrow, Ed.D ""Topics are well organized. Research is presented fairly and both sides are represented."" --Susan L. O′Donnell"

Topics are well organized. Research is presented fairly and both sides are represented. --Susan L. O'Donnell This book is geared to the adolescent and helps them to understand the many facets of being an adolescent. It is engaging, contains unbiased and timely information. --Celeste Uthe-Burrow, Ed.D The text does a nice job of discussion adolescent development within context. It integrates multiple developmental processes within the topic (e.g., how impulsiveness relates to media consumption). It's a good level for undergraduate and perhaps master's students. --Melinda A. Gonzales-Backen, Ph.D. Accessible adolescent psych text that make deliberate effort to include cultural, critical and biological perspectives. --Kathryn E. Frazier A broad, accessible text that includes features that appeal to today's diverse college students. --Robert S. Weisskirch

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Tara L. Kuther is professor of developmental psychology at Western Connecticut State University, where she has taught courses in child, adolescent, and adult development for nearly three decades. Dr. Kuther earned her MA and PhD in developmental psychology from Fordham University. She is a Fellow of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (American Psychological Association, Division 2), has served in various capacities in the Society for the Teaching of Psychology and the Society for Research on Adolescence, and is the former chair of the Teaching Committee for the Society for Research in Child Development. Dr Kuther is author of the award-winning Lifespan Development: Lives in Context as well as Lifespan Development in Context: A Topical Approach, Child and Adolescent Development in Context, and Adolescence in Context. Dr. Kuther is coauthor of Careers in Psychology: Opportunities in a Changing World (with Robert Morgan). Her research interests include social cognition and risky activity in adolescence and adulthood.

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