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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.
Implications of Focusing on Black Youth Self-Destructive Behaviors Instead of Suicide When Designing Preventive Interventions
Implications of Focusing on Black Youth Self-Destructive Behaviors Instead of Suicide When Designing Preventive Interventions
Reacting to reports of a precipitous rise from the 1980s to the early 1990s in the rate of suicide among African American youths, the U.S. Surgeon General declared in 1999 that suicide among this population was an emergent public health problem (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 1998b; Griffith & Bell, 1989; Shaffer, Gould, & Hicks, 1994; U.S. Public Health Service, 2000). Uncommon in the past, suicide among African American adolescents has increased sharply since 1985 and is now the third leading cause of death among 15- to 24-year-old African Americans (Miniño, Arias, Kochanek, Murphy, ...
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