Take an in depth look at the field of child and adolescent development. In this issue, the new leadership of this series offers different aspects of relevant work throughout multiple disciplines and continents, capturing both the variability and the richness of the themes considered and topics investigated in the field of childhood and adolescence. It answers: * What are some of the new directions in the developmental sciences of childhood and adolescence? * Where will the field be within the next decade or so? * How do those who practice in the field s different corners see its trajectory? This is the 147th volume in this Jossey-Bass series New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. Its mission is to provide scientific and scholarly presentations on cutting edge issues and concepts in this subject area. Each volume focuses on a specific new direction or research topic and is edited by experts from that field.

Author Biography

ELENA L. GRIGORENKO is the Emily Fraser Beede Professor of developmental disabilities, child studies, psychology, and epidemiology and public health at Yale University, Child Study Center, New Haven, CT, USA, and also a professor at the Laboratory of Translational Science of Early Childhood, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.