Interventions for adolescent identity development

About this book

Do adolescents have a critical period of identity development? How much identity activity is needed in each of the life domains, such as career, family, and ideology for "healthy" adolescent development? An interdisciplinary team of scholars and practitioners addresses these and related questions to examine what we know about adolescent identity formation and how this information can be effectively used to intervene with adolescents to provide them with better guidance about their life choices. Beginning with an exploration of the four categories of identity resolution and the relationship between identity status and psychological health, the book addresses such issues as ethnic identity development and interventions, adolescent psychosocial development in the context of the family, lesbian and gay identity formation, curricula and vocational interventions, and the interface of identity and intimacy.