A volume in YIS: Yearbook of Idiographic ScienceSeries Editor Sergio Salvatore and Jaan ValsinerThe volume represents the continuing of a the Yearbook of Idiographic Science project, born in 2009 anddeveloped through an annual series of volumes collecting contributes aimed at developing the integrationof idiographic and nomothetic approaches in psychology and more in general social science.In this years the YIS project received many positive feedbacks and signals of interest, as well as severalsubmissions, from many parts of the world. This fifth volume directs attention to relevent and actual psycho-social phenomena as the development of identity in terms of self identity, social identity and localidentityThe volume is directed to students, researchers and clinicians, interested in deepening theoretical and methodologicalissues and improve clinical practices and research cultures .