Self-Regulation in Adolescence

This interdisciplinary volume examines the challenges adolescents face and the self-regulation tools that most effectively ease the transition to adulthood.

Part I. Concepts and Processes of Self-Regulation: 1. Self-regulation: principles and tools Gabriele Oettingen and Peter M. Gollwitzer; 2. Expectancies, values, identities, and self-regulation Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Jennifer A. Fredricks and Peter Baay; 3. Self-regulation: conceptual issues, and relations to developmental outcomes in childhood and adolescence Nancy Eisenberg; 4. Effortful control in adolescence: individual differences within a unique developmental window Koraly Pérez-Edgar; Part II. Historical and Biological Influences: 5. Historical perspectives on self-regulation in adolescence Joseph F. Kett; 6. Adolescence: biology, epidemiology, and process considerations Sir Michael Rutter; 7. Emotion regulation and primate sociality Frans B. M. de Waal; Part III. Neural Mechanisms: 8. The neural underpinnings of adolescent risk-taking: the roles of reward-seeking, impulse control, and peers Laurence Steinberg; 9. Development of the social brain in adolescence Sarah-Jayne Blakemore; 10. The role of reflection in promoting adolescent self-regulation Philip David Zelazo and Sabine Doebel; Part IV. Peer and Parent Relationships: 11. Goals and goal pursuit in the context of adolescent-parent relationships Judith G. Smetana; 12. Self-regulation and adolescent substance use Laurie Chassin; 13. The cultural context of adolescent self-regulation Alice Schlegel; Part V. Interventions: 14. Rumination and self-regulation in adolescence Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, Kirsten Gilbert and Lori M. Hilt; 15. Promoting youth self-regulation through psychotherapy: redesigning treatments to fit complex youth in clinical care John R. Weisz; 16. Parent-based interventions to reduce adolescent problem behaviors: new directions for self-regulation approaches James Jaccard and Nicole Levitz.