Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Lawrence M. Scheier and William B. Hansen -- Parental influence on adolescent drug use / Elizabeth Prom-Wormley, Hermine H. Maes, and Lawrence M. Scheier -- Family-based models of drug etiology / Wendy Kliewer and Nikola Zaharakis -- Parenting styles and adolescent drug use / Lawrence M. Scheier and William B. Hansen -- Adolescent identity : is this the key to unraveling associations between family relationships and problem behaviors? / Elisabetta Crocetti, Wim H. J. Meeus, Rachel A. Ritchie, Alan Meca, and Seth J. Schwartz -- Parenting from the social domain theory perspective: this time it's personal / Christopher Daddis and Judith G. Smetana -- A primer on parent-child communication : why conversations matter / Steven M. Giles and Lawrence M. Scheier -- Parental and peer support : an analysis of their relations to adolescent substance use / Thomas A. Wills, Megan Carpenter, and Frederick X. Gibbons -- Family-based prevention programs / Karol L. Kumpfer and William B. Hansen -- Adolescent drug abuse treatment: family and related approaches / Ken C. Winters, Andria Botzet, and Tamara Fahnhorst -- Concluding remarks : a puzzle has to have pieces / Lawrence M. Scheier and William B. Hansen.