... study of adolescence also was stim-ulated by the publication in 1980 of the first handbook for the field. Edited by JosephAdelson (1980), the Handbook of Adolescent Psychology was published as ... about thenature of human development from birth to death. It is concerned with the embedded-ness of evolution and ontogeny, of consistency and change, of human plasticity, and of the role that ... development of the field. With re-spect to the first of these polarizations, “grand” models of adolescence that purport-edly pertained to all facets of behavior and development predominated (e.g.,...