Handbook of Adolescent Health Risk Behavior

✍ Scribed by Ralph J. DiClemente, William B. Hansen (auth.), Ralph J. DiClemente Ph.D., William B. Hansen Ph.D., Lynn E. Ponton Ph.D. (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 454
• Series: Issues in Clinical Child Psychology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Adolescence is a developmental period of accelerating physical, psychological, social! cultural, and cognitive development, often characterized by confronting and surmounting a myriad of challenges and establishing a sense of self-identity and autonomy. It is also, unfortunately, a period fraught with many threats to the health and well-being of adoles­ cents and with substantial consequent impairment and disability. Many of the adverse health consequences experienced by adolescents are, to a large extent, the result of their risk behaviors. Many adolescents today, and perhaps an increasing number in the future, are at risk for death, disease, and other adverse health outcomes that are not primarily biomedical in origin. In general, there has been a marked change in the causes of morbidity and mortality among adolescents. Previously, infectious diseases accounted for a dispro­ portionate share of adolescent morbidity and mortality. At present, however, the over­ whelming toll of adolescent morbidity and mortality is the result of lifestyle practices.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Adolescents at Risk....Pages 1-4
Current Trends in Adolescent Health....Pages 5-34
Theories of Adolescent Risk-Taking Behavior....Pages 35-51
Tobacco Use....Pages 53-81
Disordered Eating....Pages 83-113
Alcohol Use....Pages 115-159
Drug Use....Pages 161-192
Suicide and Suicidal Behavior....Pages 193-224
Unintentional Injury....Pages 225-258
Delinquency....Pages 259-288
Adolescent Violence....Pages 289-312
Adolescent Pregnancy....Pages 313-332
Sexually Transmitted Diseases Including Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection....Pages 333-367
Runaway and Homeless Youths....Pages 369-391
Academic Underachievement and School Refusal....Pages 393-411
New Directions for Adolescent Risk Prevention and Health Promotion Research and Interventions....Pages 413-420
Back Matter....Pages 421-440

✦ Subjects

Public Health; Epidemiology; Clinical Psychology; Health Psychology