Laura Ferrer-Wreder, Ph.D., is a Docent (Associate Professor) in the Department of Psychology at Stockholm University. She has published widely and her current research focuses on advancing the study of positive youth development from a global perspective. She is one of the co-developers of an identity intervention called the Changing Lives Program.

Jane Kroger, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita of Developmental Psychology at University of Tromsø, Norway. Previous books include Identity Development: Adolescence through Adulthood and Discussions on Ego Identity, along with numerous research investigations on identity development during adolescence and adulthood.

Chapter 1: Adolescence and the problem of identity: Historical, sociocultural, and psychosocial views

Chapter 2: Adolescence as identity synthesis: Erikson's psychosocial approach

Chapter 3: Adolescence as a second individuation process: Blos's psychoanalytic perspective and an object relations view

Chapter 4: Identity as life story: Narrative understandings of adolescent identity development

Chapter 5: Identity as rooted in society and culture

Chapter 6: Intersectionality, and the confluence of gender and sexual identity

Chapter 7: The forging of a brave new virtual identity

Chapter 8: Identity beyond adolescence: What comes next?

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