Overview
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Ralph J. DiClemente
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Departments of Health Behavior and Pediatrics, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA
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William B. Hansen
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Department of Public Health Sciences, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, USA
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Lynn E. Ponton
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Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxiii
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- Ralph J. DiClemente, William B. Hansen, Lynn E. Ponton
Pages 1-4
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- C. Wayne Sells, Robert Wm. Blum
Pages 5-34
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- Vivien Igra, Charles E. Irwin Jr.
Pages 35-51
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- Cheryl L. Perry, Michael J. Staufacker
Pages 53-81
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- Michael Windle, Jean Thatcher Shope, Oscar Bukstein
Pages 115-159
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- William B. Hansen, Patrick M. O’Malley
Pages 161-192
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- Yifat Cohen, Anthony Spirito, Larry K. Brown
Pages 193-224
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- Ilana Lescohier, Susan Scavo Gallagher
Pages 225-258
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- Denise C. Gottfredson, Miriam D. Sealock, Christopher S. Koper
Pages 259-288
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- Arlene Rubin Stiffman, Felton Earls, Peter Dore, Renee Cunningham, Sharon Farber
Pages 289-312
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- Catherine Stevens-Simon, Elizabeth R. McAnarney
Pages 313-332
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- Lawrence J. D’Angelo, Ralph J. DiClemente
Pages 333-367
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- Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, Michelle Parra, Coleen Cantwell, Marya Gwadz, Debra A. Murphy
Pages 369-391
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- Ralph J. DiClemente, Lynn E. Ponton, William B. Hansen
Pages 413-420
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Back Matter
Pages 421-440
About this book
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.
Reviews
`A first-rate resource for adolescent health risk behavior.'
Contemporary Psychology, 43:1 (1998)
Editors and Affiliations
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Departments of Health Behavior and Pediatrics, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA
Ralph J. DiClemente
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Department of Public Health Sciences, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, USA
William B. Hansen
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Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
Lynn E. Ponton
