Adolescent Health: Understanding and Preventing Risk Behaviors

Ralph J. DiClemente, John S. Santelli, Richard Crosby

John Wiley & Sons, 2009 M06 2 - 608 pages

This book covers the developmental and health problems unique to the adolescent period of life. It focuses on special needs and public health programs for adolescents. It offers deep insight into smoking, violence, teen pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, and other problems, along with intervention and prevention strategies.

"Anyone serious about improving adolescent health should read this book. It spans theoretical and developmental constructs, summaries of evidence-based interventions for adolescent risk behaviors, metrics, and policy recommendations." —S. Jean Emans, MD, chief, Division of Adolescent Medicine, and Robert Masland Jr., chair, Adolescent Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, and professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

"This is the one single text that students can use to study adolescent health. It includes contributions from many of the world's most accomplished researchers to provide learners with cutting edge information to make the study of adolescence understandable and applicable in practical settings." —Gary L. Hopkins, MD, DrPH, associate research professor and director, Center for Prevention Research, and director, Center for Media Impact Research, Andrews University

"This textbook presents an excellent balance in weighing the evidence from the risk and the resilience literature, incorporating research in racially and ethnically diverse populations." —Renée R. Jenkins, MD, FAAP, professor, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Howard University College of Medicine

"This is an engaging, thorough, and thought-provoking statement of our knowledge about adolescence. " —Wendy Baldwin, PhD, director, Poverty, Gender, and Youth Program, Population Council

Contents

• FOUNDATIONS: 1
• THEORIES OF ADOLESCENT RISK TAKING: 31
• RESILIENCE IN ADOLESCENCE: 51
• THEORIES AND MODELS OF ADOLESCENT: 77
• BIOLOGICAL UNDERPINNINGS: 95
• POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT Contemporary: 115
• TOBACCO USE AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH: 131
• UNDERSTANDING AND PREVENTING RISKS: 147
• ADOLESCENT ALCOHOL USE: 165
• SUBSTANCE USE AMONG ADOLESCENTS: 179
• ADOLESCENT VIOLENCE RISK RESILIENCE: 213
• PREVENTION OF SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR: 233
• UNINTENTIONAL INJURIES: 249
• SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE: 275
• INTERVENTIONS TO PREVENT PREGNANCY: 303
• POPULATIONS POLICY: 337
• DEPRESSION AND SEXUAL RISK BEHAVIOR: 359
• CONNECTEDNESS IN THE LIVES OF ADOLESCENTS: 375
• FAMILY INFLUENCES ON ADOLESCENT HEALTH: 391
• MEDIA EXPOSURE AND ADOLESCENTS: 411
• TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES: 447
• MEASURING ADOLESCENT: 473
• BRIEF MOTIVATIONAL INTERVENTIONS: 493
• HEALTH POLICY APPROACHES TO REDUCE: 511
• LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES: 531
• ADOLESCENT RISK BEHAVIORS: 549
• Subject Index: 567

About the author

Ralph J. DiClemente, PhD, is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Public Health and Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Immunology, and associate director, Emory Center for AIDS Research.

John S. Santelli, MD, MPH, is the Harriet and Robert H. Heilbrunn Professor and chair of the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, New York.

Richard A. Crosby, PhD, is DDI Endowed Professor and chair, Department of Health Behavior, University of Kentucky, College of Public Health, Lexington, Kentucky.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Adolescent Health: Understanding and Preventing Risk Behaviors
• Editors: Ralph J. DiClemente, John S. Santelli, Richard Crosby
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2009
• ISBN: 0470176768, 9780470176764
• Length: 608 pages