Handbook of Adolescent Health Risk Behavior

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Adolescents at Risk

   • Ralph J. DiClemente, William B. Hansen, Lynn E. Ponton

   Pages 1-4

3. Current Trends in Adolescent Health

   • C. Wayne Sells, Robert Wm. Blum

   Pages 5-34

4. Theories of Adolescent Risk-Taking Behavior

   • Vivien Igra, Charles E. Irwin Jr.

   Pages 35-51

5. Tobacco Use

   • Cheryl L. Perry, Michael J. Staufacker

   Pages 53-81

6. Disordered Eating

   • Lynn E. Ponton

   Pages 83-113

7. Alcohol Use

   • Michael Windle, Jean Thatcher Shope, Oscar Bukstein

   Pages 115-159

8. Drug Use

   • William B. Hansen, Patrick M. O’Malley

   Pages 161-192

9. Suicide and Suicidal Behavior

   • Yifat Cohen, Anthony Spirito, Larry K. Brown

   Pages 193-224

10. Unintentional Injury

    • Ilana Lescohier, Susan Scavo Gallagher

    Pages 225-258

11. Delinquency

    • Denise C. Gottfredson, Miriam D. Sealock, Christopher S. Koper

    Pages 259-288

12. Adolescent Violence

    • Arlene Rubin Stiffman, Felton Earls, Peter Dore, Renee Cunningham, Sharon Farber

    Pages 289-312

13. Adolescent Pregnancy

    • Catherine Stevens-Simon, Elizabeth R. McAnarney

    Pages 313-332

14. Sexually Transmitted Diseases Including Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

    • Lawrence J. D’Angelo, Ralph J. DiClemente

    Pages 333-367

15. Runaway and Homeless Youths

    • Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, Michelle Parra, Coleen Cantwell, Marya Gwadz, Debra A. Murphy

    Pages 369-391

16. Academic Underachievement and School Refusal

    • John B. Sikorski

    Pages 393-411

17. New Directions for Adolescent Risk Prevention and Health Promotion Research and Interventions

    • Ralph J. DiClemente, Lynn E. Ponton, William B. Hansen

    Pages 413-420

18. Back Matter

    Pages 421-440

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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.

• AIDS
• assessment
• intervention
• prevention
• prevention strategies
• suicide

`A first-rate resource for adolescent health risk behavior.'
Contemporary Psychology, 43:1 (1998)

• Departments of Health Behavior and Pediatrics, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA

  Ralph J. DiClemente

• Department of Public Health Sciences, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, USA

  William B. Hansen

• Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, USA

  Lynn E. Ponton

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