title: Toward a strategy for healthy adolescent development.
abstract: Mel Sabshin and I worked closely together during the 1950s, and his influence on me-as on so many others-has persisted ever since. I have never ceased to be deeply impressed by his intellectual curiosity, his strong sense of social responsibility, his integrative capacity across disciplines, and his constructive problem-solving orientation. One of his pioneering and enduring interests over several decades has been in the study of normality. Within that frame-work, he has devoted special attention to adolescent development. In this article I pick up on this strand of his interest. During much of my career, and especially during the past 14 years at the Carnegie Corporation, I have sought ways to build the knowledge base on adolescent development and put that knowledge to use in preventing lifelong casualties.
authors.affiliation: Carnegie Corporation, New York, USA.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Hamburg
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent / Q000502:physiology; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D003415:Crime / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004493:Education; D005260:Female; D006262:Health; D006293:Health Promotion; D006803:Human Development; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D010553:Personality Development; D011247:Pregnancy; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence; D011606:Psychosexual Development; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data