**Name**

HIRAISHI Kenji


**Affiliation**

Professor of Life-span Developmental Psychology, Department of Psychology and Human Development Sciences, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University


**Employment History**



Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University, 2000
Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Mie University,1994
Research Associate, School of Education, Nagoya University, 1990


**Educational History**


Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, Nagoya University, 2003
M.A. in Educational Psychology, Nagoya University, 1987


**Research Interests**


Adolescent Development
Parents-Adolescent Relationship
Identity Formation in Adolescence
Comprehensive Developmental School Counseling Program


**Recent Main Publications**

Adolescence: Identity Exploration and Social Relationships. In H. Kojima and Y. Yamada(Eds.), Life-span Developmental Psychology. Tokyo:The Society for the Promotion of the University of the Air,2002.
Relation among Parents-child Communication, Interpersonal Consciousness, and!!Identity in Late Adolescence, Japanese Journal of Family Psychology,Vol.14,41-59,2000.
A Study on the Structure of Parents-child Communications in Late Adolescence: From the Viewpoint!!of Individuation Model. The Japanese Journal of Adolescent Psychology,Vol.11,19-36,1999.