◎ Contents PartⅠ Family context 1. Individuality and connectedness in adolescent development : review and prospects for research on identity, relationships, and context 2. Are conflict and challenge sources of personality development? Ego development and family communication 3. A narrative approach to the study of moral orientation in the family : tales of kindness and care PartⅡ Cultural context 4. Social parameters in adolescent development : challenges to psychological research 5. Self-concept development during adolescence : do American truths hold for Norwegians? 6. Language and ethnic identity in indigenous adolescents PartⅢ Life Span Development 7. The ethic of care : issues in moral development 8. adolescence as a second separation - individuation process : critical review of an object relations approach 9. Peer Gynt's life cycle ◎Abstract Challenge and conflict are an integral part of adolescent life in the West. This book looks at adolescence from a cross-cultural perspective, including research from Canada, the United States, Europe, Australia, China and Japan. The roles of morality, family contexts, social change, and gender are considered in adolescent personality development by contributors well known in their respective fields. The book looks at related studies of adolescent development of individuation, ego, identity and moral orientation related to family context in several countries, with a focus on family communication and adolescent personality. It also examines development in differing cultural contexts and concludes with an exploration of life span issues of moral development, separation-individuation, and psychosocial issues, focusing on Henrik Ibsen's "Peer Gynt".; This book should be of interest to developmental and clinical psychologists, sociologists and criminologists, as well as to social workers, teachers, nurses and all those working with young people.