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.

The Influence of School Atmosphere and Development on Adolescents' Perceptions of Risk and Prevention: Cynicism versus Skepticism

The Influence of School Atmosphere and Development on Adolescents' Perceptions of Risk and Prevention: Cynicism versus Skepticism

The influence of school atmosphere and development on adolescents' perceptions of risk and prevention: Cynicism versus skepticism
Maria D.LaRusso, Robert L.Selman

Year after year, reports on the prevalence of adolescent risky behavior (e.g., illicit drug use, smoking and drinking, unprotected sexual activity, etc.) often read like a roller-coaster of hope and despair, steeply up one year, slightly down the next, only to quickly rise again with the appearance of a new street drug (Johnston, 2002). What lies behind these numbers? What is a reasonable set of expectations for the reduction of certain risky behaviors without the likelihood that dips in one will simply be offset by peaks in another? How ...

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