Identity in Adolescence

This fully revised fifth edition of Identity in Adolescence: The Balance Between Self and Other presents four theoretical perspectives on identity development during adolescence and young adulthood and their practical implications for intervention. Ferrer-Wreder, Sugimura, and Kroger consider adolescent identity development as the unique intersection of social and cultural forces in combination with individual factors that each theoretical model stresses in attempting to understand the identity formation process for contemporary adolescents. Identity in Adolescence addresses the complex question of how adolescent identity forms and develops during adolescence and young adulthood and serves as the foundation for entering adult life. The book is unique in its presentation of four selected models that address this process, along with cutting-edge research and the implications that each of these models hold for practical interventions. This new edition has been comprehensively revised, with one completely new chapter and seven have been extensively updated. Special topics are addressed, including ethnic, sexual, and gender identity development, the role of technology in adolescent identity development, bicultural identity development and ongoing identity development beyond adolescence. The book is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying adolescent development, self and social identity within developmental psychology, social psychology and clinical psychology, as well as practitioners in the fields of child welfare and mental health services, social work, youth and community work and counselling.

Laura Ferrer-Wreder, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Psychology at Stockholm University, Sweden, and Professor at the Institute for Psychology at the University of Agder, Norway. She has published widely, and her current research focuses on advancing the study of positive youth development from a global perspective. She is one of the codevelopers of an identity intervention called the Changing Lives Program. Kazumi Sugimura, Ph.D., is Professor in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hiroshima University, Japan. Her research focuses on the processes and mechanisms of identity formation among adolescents and young adults in the relational, social, and cultural contexts. She is currently the past president of the International Society for Research on Identity and Associate Editor of Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research. Jane Kroger, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita of developmental psychology at the University of Tromsø, Norway. Previous books include Identity Development: Adolescence through Adulthood and Discussions on Ego Identity, along with numerous research investigations on identity development during adolescence and adulthood.

Acknowledgements Preface to the Fifth Edition 1. Adolescence and the Problem of Identity - Historical, Sociocultural, and Psychosocial Views 2. Adolescence as Identity Synthesis - Erikson's Psychosocial Approach 3. Identity as Life Story - Narrative Understandings of Adolescent Identity Development 4. Identity as Rooted in Society and Culture 5. Bicultural Identity Development 6. Intersectionality and the Confluence of Gender and Sexual Identity 7. Forging a Brave New Digital Identity 8. Identity Beyond Adolescence Index