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Adolescent Health is a survey textbook that includes an overview of existing theories and current research on interventions that address the social morbidities and mortalities of adolescents. Author Lynn Rew examines theories from a variety of professional disciplines that provide frameworks for understanding adolescent health behavior and health outcomes. Each theory is presented in terms of its essential elements, including its origin, a brief background of the theorist’s philosophical paradigm, the purpose and usefulness of the theory, the meaning and scope of the theory, and, when available, empirical referents.
Adolescent Development
Adolescent Development
Understanding health and health-risk behavior in adolescence begins here with a review of basic human development. Figure 3.1 is an abstraction of a holistic model of human development. It is not meant to depict a single unifying theory; rather, it is to illustrate the interrelatedness of ...
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