This handbook offers comprehensive coverage of the topics that are relevant to the field of adolescent and young adult development. The APA Handbook of Adolescent and Young Adult Development reviews the many factors that impact youth development across varying themes including biological underpinnings, cognitive and emotive processes, development through social contexts and roles, diversity in adolescence and the transition to adulthood, risk behaviors and psychopathology, positive youth development, intervention and policy, and new directions. The expert co-editors have recruited a new generation of top scholars as chapter authors to ensure that this comprehensive guide is thorough, detailed, and invaluable to readers. The handbook is also integrative and incorporates diversity so that clinicians, graduate students, and researchers can gain further understanding and apply this knowledge to a wider range of the population.

Editorial Board About the Editors Contributors A Note From the Publisher Introduction: Adolescent and Young Adult Development in a Changing World Lisa J. Crockett, Gustavo Carlo, John E. Schulenberg Part I. Biological Underpinnings Chapter 1. Puberty: Foundations, Findings, and the Future Lorah D. Dorn and Adriene M. Beltz Chapter 2. Brain Development During Adolescence and Early Adulthood Amanda E. Guyer, Sarah J. Beard, and Joseph S. Venticinque Chapter 3. Gene–Environment Interplay in Adolescence and Early Adulthood Jenae M. Neiderhiser and Tong Chen Chapter 4. Stress and Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis Activity in Adolescence and Early Adulthood Emma K. Adam, Sarah Collier Villaume, Sara Thomas, Leah D. Doane, and Kathryn Grant Part II. Cognition, Emotion, and Social Cognition Chapter 5. Cognition in Adolescence and the Transition to Adulthood Daniel P. Keating, Michael I. Demidenko, and Dominic P. Kelly Chapter 6. Emotion Regulation Processes as Transdiagnostic in Adolescence and Early Adulthood: A Neurobioecological Systems Framework Jeffrey Liew, Amanda Sheffield Morris, and Kara L. Kerr Chapter 7. Decision Making in Adolescence and Early Adulthood Sarah M. Edelson and Valerie F. Reyna Chapter 8. Moral Cognition in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood Daniel Lapsley, Emily LaPorte, Katheryn Kelley Chapter 9. Fifty Years of Longitudinal Research Into Identity Development in Adolescence and Early Adulthood: An Overview Wim Meeus Chapter 10. When Fairness and Group Loyalty Conflict: Social Exclusion, Prejudice, and Bias in Adolescence and Early Adulthood Kelly Lynn Mulvey, Aline Hitti, and Melanie Killen Part III. Social Contexts of Development Chapter 11. Studying Families as Systems in Adolescence and Early Adulthood Kimberly A. Updegraff and Norma J. Perez-Brena Chapter 12. The Parenting of Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States Andrea Hussong, Allegra Midgette, and W. Andrew Rothenberg Chapter 13. An International Perspective on Parenting and Family Influences on Adolescents and Young Adults Jennifer E. Lansford, Liane Peña Alampay, and Paul Oburu Chapter 14. The Prominence of Peer Interactions, Relationships, and Networks in Adolescence and Early Adulthood René Veenstra and Lydia Laninga-Wijnen Chapter 15. Romantic Relationships in Adolescence and Early Adulthood Jennifer Connolly, Shmuel Shulman, and Katherine Benvenuto Chapter 16. Patterns and Correlates of Sexual Well-Being in Adolescence and Early Adulthood Carolyn T. Halpern Chapter 17. Schooling From Adolescence Through Early Adulthood Aprile D. Benner and Robert Crosnoe Chapter 18. Consequences of Adolescent Employment for Young Adult Development Jeremy Staff, Brittany N. Freelin, and Jeylan T. Mortimer Chapter 19. Socially Networked Lives: How Adolescents and Young Adults Engage With Social Media Marion K. Underwood, Madeleine J. George, and Kaitlyn Burnell Part IV.Diversity in Adolescence and the Transition to Adulthood Chapter 20. Culturally and Contextually Informed Perspectives on Latinx Adolescent and Young Adult Development Rebecca M. B. White, Rajni L. Nair, and Claudia A. Vega Chapter 21. African American and Black Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States: Development in Context Dawn P. Witherspoon, Wei Wei, Tiyobista Maereg, Daphney Chancy, and Saskia Boggs Chapter 22. Development Against the Backdrop of the Model Minority Myth: Strengths and Vulnerabilities Among Asian American Adolescents and Young Adults Tiffany Yip, Milou Haskin, Jillianne Fowle, Mingjun Xie, Yuen Mi Cheon, Pak See Ip, and Shubarna Akhter Chapter 23. Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Stephen T. Russell and Armin A. Dorri Chapter 24. The Promises and Challenges of Using an Intersectional Framework to Study Identity Development During Adolescence and Early Adulthood Margarita Azmitia, Paulette D. Garcia Peraza, Virginia Thomas, Alex A. Ajayi, and Moin Syed Chapter 25. Immigrant Youth Resilience in the Context of Challenging Receiving Societies Frosso Motti-Stefanidi Chapter 26. Rural Youth Development: Theoretical Perspectives, Challenges, and Protective Processes Shauna M. Cooper, Velma McBride Murry, Misha N. Inniss-Thompson, Marketa Burnett, Cecelia Valrie, Catherine M. Gonzalez, Janae Shaheed, Margarett McBride, and Kylie Garber Chapter 27. Challenges of Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood in Latin America Anderson Siqueira Pereira, Felipe Vilanova, Luciana Dutra-Thomé, and Silvia H. Koller Chapter 28. Youth With Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Transition to Adulthood Fred R. Volkmar and Calvin Solomon Chapter 29. The Impact of Protective Custody and Out-of-Home Care on the Health and Development of Adolescents and Young Adults Sarah J. Beal, Miguel Nuñez, and Mary V. Greiner Part V.Challenges to Healthy Development Chapter 30. A Multiple Levels of Analysis Developmental Psychopathology Perspective on Adolescence and Young Adulthood Dante Cicchetti Chapter 31. Internalizing in Adolescents and Young Adults Colleen S. Conley, Lori M. Hilt, and Carol Hundert Gonzales Chapter 32. The Development of Externalizing Across Adolescence and Early Adulthood Hailey L. Dotterer, Heidi B. Westerman, Emma L. Rodgers, and Luke W. Hyde Chapter 33. Substance Use Across Adolescence and Early Adulthood: Prevalence, Causes, Developmental Roots, and Consequences Jennifer L. Maggs, Brian H. Calhoun, and Hannah K. Allen Part VI.Positive Youth Development Chapter 34. Prosocial Behavior During Adolescence and the Transition to Adulthood Laura M. Padilla-Walker and Jolien Van der Graaff Chapter 35. Civic Engagement Across Adolescence and Early Adulthood Laura Wray-Lake and Parissa J. Ballard Chapter 36. Religious Development Across Adolescence and Early Adulthood Sam A. Hardy and Jenae M. Nelson Chapter 37. Hindsight in the 2020s: Looking Back and Forward to Positive Youth Development and Thriving Pamela Ebstyne King and Susan Mangan Chapter 38. Neurobiological Development in Adolescence and Early Adulthood: Implications for Positive Youth Adjustment Eva H. Telzer, Seh-Joo Kwon, and Nathan A. Jorgensen Part VII.Intervention and Policy Chapter 39. The Promise and Challenges of Promotive and Preventive Interventions in Adolescence Joanna J. Kim, Nancy A. Gonzales, Armando A. Pina, and Phillip W. Graham Chapter 40. Youth and the Justice System Colleen Brown, Adam Fine, and Elizabeth Cauffman Chapter 41. Border and Asylum Immigration Policies and Adolescent Development in the United States Silvia Rodriguez Vega and Hirokazu Yoshikawa Chapter 42. Health Care Policy for Adolescents and Young Adults M. Jane Park, Claire D. Brindis, and Charles E. Irwin Jr. Chapter 43. Translating Developmental Science to Policy and Practice Rebekah Levine Coley and Naoka E. Carey Part VIII. Past and Future Science of Adolescence and Early Adulthood Chapter 44. The Development of the Developmental Science of Adolescence: Then, Now, Next—and Necessary Richard M. Lerner, Jacqueline V. Lerner, and Mary H. Buckingham Index