A Study of Interactions Emerging Issues in the Science of Adolescence: Workshop Summary (2006) / Chapter Skim
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At the same time, policy makers, educators, community health specialists, and others concerned with the life challenges facing adolescents have looked for ways to use scientific findings to better serve young people and their families.1 The development of professional organizations and journals devoted to adolescence, as well as increasing appreciation in academia and the world of policy for the importance of this phase of life, have helped this field catch up with the pace of research on other stages of human development, 1The age range that constitutes adolescence is a subject of some disagreement. No firm definition of adolescence was used in planning this workshop, though the question of when it begins and ends was raised by participants as worthy of further discussion.
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The workshop planners began with the proposition that understanding the complex phenomenon of adolescence demands widely different theoretical and methodological perspectives. In planning the workshop, the program committee developed a framework to identify the multiple settings and research disciplines that encompass the fields of adolescent science.
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The workshop discussions presented a variety of perspectives -- including detailed looks at a few key research areas -- with the goal of fleshing out possible means of integrating research with policy and service needs. The presenters were chosen with the goal of reflecting the diversity of research topics and methodologies, but with the clear recognition that many other important issues and research areas could not even be touched on during the brief workshop session.
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A closing section describes the presenters' thoughts on the feasibility of launching an indepth contextual study that could more firmly establish connections among the many fields of study concerned with adolescence. 2The themes have been shaped to produce a readable narrative, but this summary is confined to what was discussed during the workshop or presented in the papers submitted by the presenters.
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