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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.
Time Perspective: A Potentially Important Construct for Decreasing Health Risk Behaviors Among Adolescents
Time Perspective: A Potentially Important Construct for Decreasing Health Risk Behaviors Among Adolescents
There are few endeavors as humbling as trying to change people's health behaviors. It is difficult at best to achieve even moderate gains in many health domains, and initial successes often give way to very high rates of relapse just a few weeks or months after a seemingly successful intervention (e.g., Brownell, Marlatt, Lichtenstein, & Wilson, 1986).
In this chapter, we briefly outline one possible approach for understanding the difficulty that adolescents (and people in general) have both in reducing their health risk behaviors and in adopting health-protective behaviors. Our approach focuses on the temporal asymmetry between costs ...
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