Introduction

Part I Status Transitions of Dutch Adolescents and the Role of Parents

1. The Modernization of the Youth Phase. Educational, Professional and Family Careers of Dutch Youth in the Nineties

2. Courtship and Sexuality in the Youth Phase

3. The Role of Parents in the Transition Period of Young People

Part II Modernisation of Childhood in East and West Germany and The Netherlands

4. The Impact of Social and Cultural Modernisation on the Everyday Lives of Children. Theoretical and Methodological Framework and First Results of an Inter-cultural Project

5. The Modern Family as a Negotiating Household. Parent-Child relations in Western and Eastern Germany and in the Netherlands

6. Biographisation in Modern Childhood

Part III Coping Strategies of Dutch and German Adolescents in Social Context

7. Internal and External Coping in Adolescence. Psychosomatic Complaints, Aggressive Behaviour, and the Consumption of Legal and Illegal Drugs

8. Demands for Help. Gender Differences in Informal and Medical Help- Seeking

9. Adolescents’ Health Problems and Utilization of Medical and Psychosocial Care Services in East and West Germany. Findings of a Study Based on Interviews of Medical, Psychological and Educational Experts

10. Emotional Problems in Adolescence

11. Inter-ethnic Violence: A Male Youth Problem?

12. Youth Under Threat

Part IV Youth Information in the Netherlands. A New Educational Concept

13. Youth Information, Education and the Psychosocial Functioning of Adolescents. An Approach Using Both Socialisation- and Coping-theory

14. The Demand for Youth Information. Results of a national survey among adolescents and young adults in The Netherlands

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