Child and Adolescent Development for Medical Learners: Adolescent Identity Development

Grammatical development in adolescent first-language learners*

Studies of first-language acquisition in adolescence are very rare and depend primarily on comprehension measures to evaluate grammatical knowledge. These studies have led to the general conclusion that grammatical development in adolescence is severely impaired and performance is highly variable both within and across individuals. This article is the first to present longitudinal production da...

Child and adolescent health and development.

Child and Adolescent Health and Development

Child and adolescent psychiatry: the need for training and development.

In the last few decades, it has been continuously stressed that the significance that mental disorders have for patients and society should be acknowledged. This is due to both the elevated frequency of such disorders and the social and economic burden they represent.1,2 Generalised acceptance of the fact that there are elevated pre-adult rates of these pathologies has been especially slow. Chi...

Adolescent development.

This chapter identifies the most robust conclusions and ideas about adolescent development and psychological functioning that have emerged since Petersen's 1988 review. We begin with a discussion of topics that have dominated recent research, including adolescent problem behavior, parent-adolescent relations, puberty, the development of the self, and peer relations. We then identify and examine...