Foreword: Laurie Chassin (Arizona State University, USA)

List of Contributors

1. Negotiating Developmental Transitions During Adolescence and Young Adulthood: Health Risks and Opportunities
   John Schulenberg (University of Michigan, USA), Jennifer L. Maggs (University of Arizona and University of Michigan, USA), and Klaus Hurrelmann (University of Bielefeld, Germany)

Section I. Sociocultural, Physical, and Cognitive Foundations of Adolescent Transitions

2. Cultural, Historical, and Subcultural Contexts of Adolescence: Implications for Health and Development
   Lisa J. Crockett (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
   
   
3. Social Change and Adolescent Well-Being: Healthy Country, Heathy Teens
   Peter Noack and Barbel Kracke (University of Mannheim, Germany)
   
   
4. Self-Reported Maturational Timing and Adaptation in Adolescence
   Rainer K. Silbereisen (University of Jena, Germany) and Barbel Kracke (University of Mannheim, Germany)
   
   
5. Adolescents' Decisions about Risks: A Cognitive Perspective
   Ruth Beyth-Marom (Open University of Israel, Israel) and Baruch Fischhoff (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Section II. Affiliation Transitions and Health

6. The Family as Health Risk and Opportunity: A Focus on Divorce and Working Families
   Nancy L. Galambos and Marion F. Ehrenberg (University of Victoria, Canada)
   
   
7. Transformations in Peer Relationships at Adolescence: Implications for Health-Related Behavior
   B. Bradford Brown (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), M. Margaret Dolcini (University of California-San Francisco, USA), and Amy Leventhal (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
   
   
8. Sexuality and Developmental Transitions During Adolescence
   Jeanne Brooks-Gunn (Columbia University, USA) and Roberta Paikoff (University of Illinois-Chicago, USA)
   
   
9. Child Bearing During Adolescence: Mental Health Risks and Opportunities
   Cleopatra Howard Caldwell and Toni C. Antonucci (University of Michigan, USA)
   
   
10. Marriage, Divorce, and Parenthood During the Transition to Young Adulthood: Impacts on Drug Use and Abuse
    Jerald G. Bachman, Katherine N. Wadsworth, Patrick M. O'Malley, John Schulenberg, and Lloyd D. Johnston (University of Michigan, USA)

Section III. Achievement Transitions and Health

11. The Association of School Transitions in Early Adolescence with Developmental Trajectories through High School
    Jacquelynne S. Eccles (University of Michigan, USA), Sarah E. Lord (University of Michigan, USA), Robert W. Roeser (University of Michigan, USA), Bonnie L. Barber (University of Arizona, USA), and Debra M. Hernandez Jozefowicz (University of Michigan, USA)
    
    
12. Transitions into Part-Time Work: Health Risks and Opportunities
    Michael D. Finch, Jeylan T. Mortimer, and Seongryeol Ryu (University of Minnesota, USA)
    
    
13. Alcohol Use and Binge Drinking as Goal-Directed Action During the Transition to Post- Secondary Education
    Jennifer L. Maggs (University of Arizona and University of Michigan, USA)
    
    
14. Health Risks and Deviance in the Transition from School to Work
    Eduard Matt, Lydia Seus, and Karl F. Schumann, (University of Bremen, Germany)

Section IV. Identity Transitions and Health

15. Self Definition and Mental Health During Adolescence and Young Adulthood
    Jari-Erik Nurmi (University of Helsinki, Finland)
    
    
16. Ethnic and Racial Identity Development and Mental Health
    Jean S. Phinney and Eric L. Kohatsu (California State University-Los Angeles, USA)
    
    
17. Religion and Adolescent Health Compromising Behavior
    John M. Wallace, Jr., and David R. Williams (University of Michigan, USA)

Section V. Intervention: Altering Transition-Health Risk Connections

18. Promoting Mental Health During the Transition into Adolescence
    Anne C. Petersen, Nancy Leffert, Barbara Graham, Jan Alwin, and Shuai Ding (University of Minnesota, USA)
    
    
19. Preventing Health Compromising Behaviors among Youth and Promoting their Positive Development: A Developmental-Contextual Perspective
    Richard M. Lerner, Charles W. Ostrum, and Melissa A. Freel (Michigan State University, USA)
    
    
20. Developmental Transitions During Adolescence: Health Promotion Implications
    Jennifer L. Maggs (University of Arizona and University of Michigan, USA), John Schulenberg (University of Michigan, USA), and Klaus Hurrelmann(University of Bielefeld, Germany).