Adolescence is a time of rapid cognitive development, and extensive emotional and attitudinal changes. During this time, adolescents typically attach more importance to their friends and peer groups than to their parents, which can often led to conflict within the family.

About the Editors. List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction: What's Changed in Research on Parenting and Adolescent Problem Behavior and What Needs to Change? (Margaret Kerr, Hakan Stattin and Rutger C. M. E. Engels). PART 1: ADOLESCENTS AS ACTIVE AGENTS. 1. Adolescents' Agency in Information Management (Lauree C. Tilton-Weaver and Sheila K. Marshall). 2. Relational Implications of Secrecy and Concealment in Parent-Adolescent Relationships (Catrin Finkenauer, Rutger C. M. E. Engels and Kaska E. Kubacka). 3. Don't Ask, Don't Tell (Your Mom and Dad): Disclosure and Nondisclosure in Adolescent-parent Relationships (Judith G. Smetana and Aaron Metzger). PART 2: THE ROLES OF ADOLESCENT AGENCY AND PARENTING EFFORTS IN RELATIONSHIPS AND ADJUSTMENT 89 4. Parents React to Adolescent Problem Behaviors by Worrying More and Monitoring Less (Margaret Kerr, Hakan Stattin and Vilmante Pakalniskiene). 5. Vicissitudes of Parenting Adolescents: Daily Variations in Parental Monitoring and the Early Emergence of Drug Use (Thomas J. Dishion, Bernadette Marie Bullock and Jeff Kiesner). 6. Reciprocal Development of Parent-adolescent Support and Adolescent Problem Behaviors (Susan J. T. Branje, William W. Hale III and Wim H. J. Meeus). 7. Linkages between Parenting and Peer Relationships: A Model for Parental Management of Adolescents' Peer Relationships (Nina S. Mounts). 8. From Coercion to Positive Parenting: Putting Divorced Mothers in Charge of Change (Marion S. Forgatch, Zintars G. Beldavs, Gerald R. Patterson and David S. DeGarmo). PART 3: LESSONS FROM PARENTING RESEARCH ON YOUNGER CHILDREN. 9. Stepping Up without Overstepping: Disentangling Parenting Dimensions and their Implications for Adolescent Adjustment (Wendy S. Grolnick, Krista L. Beiswenger and Carrie E. Price). 10. What is the Nature of Effective Parenting? It Depends (Joan E. Grusec). 11. Positive Parenting and Positive Characteristics and Values in Children (Marc H. Bornstein). Index.