DOCUMENT RESUME ED 388 457 PS 023 952 TITLE Great Transitions: Preparing Adolescents for a New Century. Concluding Report. INSTITUTION Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development, Washington, DC. REPORT NO ISBN-0-9623154-4-3 PUB DATE Oct 95 NOTE 168p.; Executive Summary appearing on pages 9-15 also published separately, see PS 023 953. AVAILABLE FROMCarnegie Ceuncil on Adolescent Development, P.O. Box 753, Waldorf, MD 20604 ($10; quantity discounts). PUB TYPE Reports Descriptive (141) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC07 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Adolescent Development; *Adolescents; *Change Strategies; Childhood Needs; Child Rearing; Community Change; Developmental Stages; Elementary Secondary Education; Emotional Development; *Health Promotion; Life Events; Mass Media Effects: Parent Child Relationship; Physical Development; Social Services; Well Being IDENTIFIERS Adolescent Attitudes; Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development ABSTRACT The Carnegie Corporation's Council on Adolescent Development builds on the work of many organizations and individuals to stimulate sustained public attention to the risks and opportunities of adolescence, and generates public and private support for measures that facilitate the critical transition to adulthood. This document explores some of the risks of adolescence--which encompasses ages 11 and 12 in early adolescence and 17 and 18 in late adolescence. The report also gives recommendations for meeting the essential requirements of healthy adolescent development and adapting pivotal institutions to foster healthy adolescence. Following an executive summary, the report presents the following chapters.(1) "Early Adolescence: The Great Transition";(2) "Growing Up in Early Adolescence: An Emerging view"; (3) "Old Biology in New Circumstances: The Changing Adolescent Experience";(4) "Reducing Risks, Enhancing Opportunities: Essential Requirements for Healthy Development";(5) "Reengaging Families with Their Adolescent Children";(6) "Educating Young Adolescents for a Changing World";(7) "Promoting the Health of Adolescents";(8) "Strengthening Communities with Adolescents"; and (9) "Redirecting the Pervasive Power of Media." The report concludes with an epilogue on sustaining the perspectives of the Council ofAdolescent Development. 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' , .4 del:E" GREAT TRANSITIONS PREPARING ADOLESCENTS FOR A NEW CENTURY CONCLUDING REPORT CARNEGIE COUNCILON ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK OCTOBER 1995 4 Copynght © 1995 by Carnegie Corporation of New York 437 Madison Avenue. New York. NY 10022 All rights reserved Large potlions of this publication may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system. or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical,photocopying, recording, or otherwise without permission of Carnegie Corporation. Copies of this report may be obtained for $10.00, (single copies, bulk rate available! from: Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development, PO. Box 753. Waldorf, MD 20604 Telephone (2021 429-7979 LIBRARY Of CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-RUBL:CAT;ON SATA Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development. Great transitions- preparing adolescents for a new century/ concluding report of the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development p cm. ISBN 0-9623154-4-3 lobk 1. Parent and teenager--United states.2. Teenagers--United StatesAttitudes 3. Social work with teenagersUnited States4 TeenagersHealth and hygiene United States5 Adolescent psychology IntIe HO799.15 C374 1995 95-37472 305.23'5dc20 Cip Designed and produced by Meadows Design Office Incorporated. Washington. DC Printed by Graphtec. Inc Wood lawn, MD CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 9 PART I GREAT TRANSITIONS CHAPTER ONE Earl/ Adolescence: The Great Transition 19 CHAPTERTwo Growing Up in Early Adolescence: An Emerging View 27 CHAPTER THREEOld Biology in New Circumstances: The Changing Adolescent Experience 35 CHAPTER FOURReducing Risks, Enhancing Opportunities: Essential Requirements for Healthy Developmert 49 PART I I PREPARING ADOLESCENTS FOR A NEW CENTURY CHAPTER FIVEReengaging Families with Their Adolescent Children 63 CHAPTER SIXEducating Young Adolescents for a Changing World 75 CHAPTER SEVENPromoting the Health of Adolescents91 CHAPTER EGH7Strengthening Communities with Adolescents 105 CHAP TER NINERedirecting the Pervasive Power of Media115 EPILOGUE Looking to the Future: Sustaining the Council's Perspective, by Dayid A. Hamburg 125 NOTES 136 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 144 APPENDICES A.Task Force, Working Group, and Advisory Board Members 147 B.Publications 151 c. Meetings and Workshops154 D. Biographies of Members of the Council156 E. Index of Programs Cited in the Report 164 6 CARNEGIE COUNCIL ON ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT David A. Hamburg. (:hair Fred NI. Hechinger President Senior Advisor Carnegie (wporation of New York Carnegie Corporation of New York New. York. New York New York. New York I I. Keith II. Brodie David W. Hornbeck President Emeritus Superintendent Duke University Sclmol District of Philadelphia Durliam. North Carolina Philadelphia. Pennsylvania Nlichael I. Gillen Daniel K. biome Chairman United States Senator Department of Pediatrics Hawaii Albert Einstein Cidlege of Medicine James M. Jeffords New N'ork. New York United States Sctiator Alonzo Crim Vermont Professor Richard Jessor Department of Educati(ui Director Spehnan College Institute of Behavioral Science Atlanta. Georgia University of Colorado at Boulder Michael S. Dukakis I lelene L. Kaplan Visiting Distinguished Professor Of Counsel Department of Political Science Skadden. Arps. Slate. Nicaglier & Horn Northeastern I'lliversitv New York. New York Boston. Massachusetts Nancy L. Kassebaum William II. Ill United States Senator President Kansas United Negro College Fund Fairfax. Virginia Thomas H. Kean President Beatrix A. Hamburg Drew University President Nladison. New ,Iersey William T. Grant Foun(lation New York. New York Ted Koppel ABC News Nightline l)avid Haves-Bautista Washington. D.C. Director Ccriter hit. the Stud\ ( )11 it In) )I iralth Universih of Califiu nia at Los Angeles 7 Hernan LaFontaine P. Roy Vagelos Professor of Adininistration Former Chair and Chief Executive Officer and Supervision Merck. Inc. Graduate School of Education Whitehouse Station. New Jersey Southern Connecticut State University James D. Watkins New Haven. Connecticut Admiral, U.S. Navy (Retired) Eleanor E. Maccoby President Barbara Kimball Browning Professor of Consortium fOr Oceanographic Research Psychology, Emerita and Education Stanford University Washington. D.C. Stanford. California William Julius Wilson Ray Marshall Lucy Flower University Professor of Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Sociology and Public Policy Chair in Economics and Public Affairs University of Chicago Lyndon B. Johnson School of Chicago, Illinois Public Affairs I 'niversity of Texas at Austin Julius B. Richmond John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy, Emeritus Harvard Medical School Boston. Massachusetts Frederick C. Robbins University Professor, Emeritus Departmeat of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Case Western Reserve University Cleveland. Ohio Kenneth B. Smith President Chicago Theological Seminary Chicago. Illinois Wilma S. Tisch President Emeritus WNYC Foundation New York. New York ro* .. .. 1--rt...tit'''. C'i5 '_t:15:..,..:,.,...1-/,' 44, -2. .'sv. ..' .1W- ,,J . .,:.;,.:;...,,' '3_44 4 f- :._..' .:,-,11,,,,..'00'.01111%4-, ,r.,..;., - ..,, .... .1- a..e. 4,...,7074:4 S.' , . -- '.6 .....0 ..,,.A.''Aa401.-'' *or* ar."' .,.. Att er, - .to*-5`5. ',,,, '''...4..- .'. <.'45 .. ,*.....0 ..0`0 S.00...* 4. r-;, .4 0 00'1' 114r, 4 4ft .V'"" It cr" 10.0'0'74,1, 45ki95,tit; 4e1 ' EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Adolescence is one of the most fas,inating and complex transitions in the life span: a time of accelerated growth and change se,:ond t.,nly to infancy: a time of expanding horizons, self-dis- covery, and emerging independence; a time of metamorphosis from childhood to adulthood. Its beginning is associated with biological, physical, behavioral. and social transformations that roughly correspond with die move from elementary school to middle or junior high school. The events of this crucially formative phase can shape an individual's life course and thus the future of the whole society. Earlv adolescence. encompassing the sexual awakenings of puberty as well as new social and educational demands. is an age of particular vulnerability. Barely out of chiklhood. young peo- ple ages ten to fourteen arc today experiencing more freedom. autonomy, arid choice than ever at a time when they still need special nurturing. protection. and guidance.