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Reducing Adolescent Risk: Toward an Integrated Approach focuses on common influences that result in a number of interrelated risk behaviors in order to design more unified, comprehensive prevention strategies. Edited by Daniel Romer, this book summarizes presentations and discussions held at the Adolescent Risk Communication Institute of the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg Public Policy Center. Concentrating on common causes for varied risk behaviors, a group of leading researchers and intervention specialists from different health traditions synthesize current knowledge about risks to adolescent health in several areas, including drugs and alcohol, tobacco, unprotected sex, suicide and depression, and gambling. Primarily intended for graduate students, scholars, and researchers in psychology, sociology, social work, and public health, Reducing Adolescent Risk is also an extraordinary resource for policy makers in government organizations and foundations.
Contemporary School-Based Prevention Approaches and the Perceived Risks and Benefits of Substance Use
Contemporary School-Based Prevention Approaches and the Perceived Risks and Benefits of Substance Use
Adolescent substance use is an important problem facing society today. National surveys indicate that adolescents often begin to use alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs during the middle school years and that rates of drug use typically increase over the course of adolescence. In fact, most young people report engaging in the use of one or more substances by the time they are in secondary school. According to the Monitoring the Future study (Johnston, O'Malley, & Bachman, 2000), alcohol and tobacco are the most commonly used substances by teenagers, with about one in three 12th graders reporting drunkenness, binge drinking ...
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