Journal of Adolescence

The Journal of Adolescence is an international, broad based, cross-disciplinary journal that addresses issues of professional and academic importance concerning development between puberty and the attainment of adult status within society. It provides a forum for all who are concerned with the nature of adolescence, whether involved in teaching, research, guidance, counseling, treatment, or other services. The aim of the journal is to encourage research and foster good practice through publishing both empirical and clinical studies as well as integrative reviews and theoretical advances. The Journal of Adolescence is essential reading for psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and youth workers in practice, and for university and college faculty in the fields of psychology, sociology, education, criminal justice, and social work.

Listing of issues, abstracts and full-text articles is available at Science Direct. Submission of manuscripts to the Journal of Adolescence, or applying as a reviewer, is completely done online through the Elsevier Electronic Submission gateway.

Since the Oporto meeting in 2004, membership of EARA includes a personal subscription to the Journal of Adolescence at a very much reduced rate (€ 72,- for a 2-year subscription, instead of € 232,-, that’s a 69% reduction). For student members of EARA this subscription to the journal is optional.

Wim Beyers is EARA’s Editorial Assistant at JoA. Part of the agreement between EARA and the Journal of Adolescence includes the possibility to set up a special issue for the journal every two years, based on the EARA biennial meeting. This way, a tradition is sustained. Examples of such issues are:

  • Volume 18, Issue 4 (1995), following the Stockholm 1994 meeting, covering ‘The adolescent as a whole person’, and edited by Håkan Stattin
  • Volume 20, Issue 6 (1997), following the Liège 1996 meeting, covering ‘Risk and resilience in adolescence’, and edited by Sandy Jackson, Michel Born, and Marie-Noel Jacob
  • Volume 22, Issue 6 (1999), following the Budapest 1998 meeting, covering ‘Family relations in adolescence’, and edited by Peter Noack, Margaret Kerr, and Attila Olah
  • Volume 25, Issue 1 (2002), following the Jena 2000 meeting, covering ‘Personal agency and personality in adolescence’, and edited by Wim Meeus, Rainer Silbereisen, and Jari-Erik Nurmi
  • Volume 27, Issue 5 (2004), following the Oxford 2002 meeting, covering ‘Families, peers, and contexts as multiple determinants of adolescent problem behavior’, and edited by Jeff Kiesner and Margaret Kerr
  • Volume 31 issue 2 (2008), following the Antalya 2006 meeting, covering ‘Adolescent self and identity development in context’, and edited by Wim Beyers, Jeff Kiesner, and Figen Çok

Currently an issue is set up following the Torino 2008 meeting, covering intervention studies.