This volume is intended to serve as a didactically-oriented resource covering a broad range of advanced topics often not discussedin introductory courses on structural equation modeling (SEM). Such topics are important in furthering the understandingof foundations and assumptions underlying SEM as well as in exploring SEM as a potential tool to address new types ofresearch questions that might not have arisen during a first course. Chapters focus on the clear explanation and application oftopics, rather than on analytical derivations, and contain syntax and partial output files from popular SEM software.