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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.
Youth Development Programs and Healthy Development: A Review and Next Steps
Youth Development Programs and Healthy Development: A Review and Next Steps
The notion of adolescence as a time of great risk and opportunity has taken hold in the American consciousness. A time of bodily changes, expanding independence, and growing self-discovery, adolescence can be characterized as a series of challenges. Each challenge carries the possibility of risk, opportunity, or both. These challenges, or developmental transitions, present critical junctures along the path that connects children to their transformed physical, mental, and social adult selves (Graber & Brooks-Gunn, 1996; Schulenberg, Maggs, & Hurrelmann, 1997). Most individuals navigate transitions equipped with the competencies and supports they need to meet new challenges and take on new roles while ...
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