Contents: Introduction: What's changed in research on parenting and adolescent problem behavior and what needs to change / Margaret Kerr, Hakan Stattin & Rutger C.M.E. Engels -- Adolescents as active agents -- Adolescents' agency in information management / Lauree Tilton-Weaver and Sheila Marshall -- Relational implications of secrecy and concealment in parent-adolescent relationships / Catrin Finkenauer, Rutger C. M. E. Engels, and Kaska E. Kubacka -- Don't ask, don't tell (your mom and dad) : disclosure and nondisclosure in adolescent-parent relationships / Judith G. Smetana and Aaron Metzger -- The roles of adolescent agency and parenting efforts in relationships and adjustment -- Parents react to adolescent problem behaviors by worrying more and monitoring less / Margaret Kerr, Hakan Stattin & Vilmante Pakalniskiene -- Vicissitudes of parenting : the contribution of unsupervised time, communication, affection, and family meals to the early emergence of drug use / Thomas J. Dishion, Bernadette Marie Bullock, and Jeff Kiesner -- Relational development of parent-adolescent support and adolescent problem behaviors / Susan Branje, William W. Hale III, and Wim H. J. Meeus -- Linkages between parenting and peer relationships : a model for parental management of adolescents' peer relationships / Nina S. Mounts -- From coercion to positive parenting : putting divorced mothers in charge of change / Marion Forgatch, Zintars G. Beldavs, Gerald R. Patterson, and David S. DeGarmo -- Lessons from parenting research on younger children -- Stepping up without overstepping : disentangling parenting dimensions and their implications for adolescent adjustment / Wendy Grolnick, Krista L. Beiswenger, and Carrie E. Price -- What is the nature of effective parenting? : it depends / Joan E. Grusec -- Positive parenting and positive characteristics and values in children / Marc H. Bornstein.