Self-Continuity Across Developmental Change in and of Repeated Life Narratives -- Emerging Identities: Narrative and Self from Early Childhood to Early Adolescence -- Patterns of Family Narrative Co-construction in Relation to Adolescent Identity and Well-Being -- Autonomy, Identity, and Narrative Construction with Parents and Friends -- What He Said to Me Stuck: Adolescents ; Narratives of Grandparents and Their Identity Development in Emerging Adulthood -- Life Stories of Troubled Youth: Meanings for a Mentor and a Scholarly Stranger -- Re-storying the Lives of At-Risk Youth: A Case Study Approach -- Constructing Resilience: Adolescent Motherhood and the Process of Self-Transformation -- Negotiating the Meanings of Adolescent Motherhood Through the Medium of Identity Collages -- How Violent Youth Offenders and Typically Developing Adolescents Construct Moral Agency in Narratives About Doing Harm -- Critical Narrating by Adolescents Growing Up in War: Case Study Across the Former Yugoslavia.
Summary
The need to establish a narrative self reaches an important peak during adolescence as teens work to understand life events and establish their self-identity. This book examines narrative development during adolescence in depth, focusing on both stable and at-risk youth as they construct, organize and tell their life stories.