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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.
Risk and Protective Factors Affecting Teen Pregnancy and the Effectiveness of Programs Designed to Address Them
Risk and Protective Factors Affecting Teen Pregnancy and the Effectiveness of Programs Designed to Address Them
Although the U.S. teenage pregnancy rate has declined during recent years, teenage pregnancy nevertheless remains a significant problem in this country. In 1997, the most recent year for which data are currently available, among all females aged 15 to 19, almost 900,000 teens (9.4%) became pregnant (Ventura, Mosher, Curtin, Abma, & Henshaw, 2001). An estimated 78% of these teen pregnancies were unintended (Henshaw, 1998). In addition, more than 40% of teenage females in the United States became pregnant before they reached 20 years of age, and many became pregnant a second time before their ...
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