This chapter provides a selective review of the Caribbean-based empirical literature on adolescent and adult development, with a focus on studies published from January 2000 to November 2013. Our purpose for this review is to clarify current Caribbean emphases in developmental psychology, particularly the themes, topics, research questions, research designs, and strategies used; countries and subpopulations studied; and related findings relevant to human development at the adolescent, early and middle adulthood, and late adulthood stages in the lifespan.During the 2000 to 2013 period, two reviews relevant to English-speaking Caribbean adolescents' development were published. The first explored health risk behaviors (Maharaj, Nunes, & Renwick, 2009); the other examined adolescent mental and physical health (Pilgrim & Blum, 2012). This chapter can be considered a supplement to these reviews because it includes studies on adolescent development in the areas of mental and physical health and
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