Reducing adolescent risk : toward an integrated approach /: toward an integrated approach. (©2003)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Daniel Romer, editor.
• Other Names: Romer, Daniel, 1946-
• Contents: Prospects for an integrated approach to adolescent risk reduction / Daniel Romer -- Adolescents as decision makers -- Differing views of adolescent decision making -- Changing views on the nature and prevention of adolescent risk taking / James P. Byrnes -- Is decision making the right framework for research on adolescent risk taking? / Laurence Steinberg -- The two faces of adolescent invulnerability / Daniel K. Lapsley -- Affect, risk perception and behavior -- Risk perception: construct development, links to theory, correlates and manifestations / Susan G. Millstein -- Affect, analysis, adolescence and risk / Paul Slovic -- Toward an understanding of the role of perceived risk in HIV prevention research / Martin Fishbein -- Alcohol and illicit drugs: the role of risk perceptions / Lloyd D. Johnston -- Adolescents' risk perceptions and behavioral willingness: implications for intervention / Meg Gerrard, Frederick X. Gibbons, Michelle L. Gano -- Problem-solving approaches -- A problem-solving approach to preventing early high-risk behaviors in children and preteens / Myrna B. Shure -- Contemporary school-based prevention approaches and the perceived risks and benefits of substance use / Kenneth W. Griffin -- Decision-making competence and risk behavior / Andrew M. Parker, Baruch Fischhoff -- Time perspective: a potentially important construct for decreasing health risk behaviors among adolescents / Geoffrey T. Fong, Peter A. Hall -- The influence of school atmosphere and development on adolescents' perceptions of risk and prevention: cynicism versus skepticism / Maria D. LaRusso, Robert L. Selman. Common pathways and influences on adolescent risk behavior -- Multiple-problem youth -- Preventing multiple problem behaviors in adolescence / Anthony Biglan, Christine Cody -- Screening and early intervention for antisocial youth within school settings as a strategy for reducing substance use / Herbert H. Severson, Judy Andrews, Hill M. Walker -- Preventive interventions for externalizing disorders in adolescents / Ken C. Winters, Gerald August, Willa Leitten -- Personality and other predispositions -- Genetic basis of substance use and dependence: implications for prevention in high-risk youth / Caryn Lerman, Freda Patterson, Alexandra Shields -- Health risk takers and prevention / Lewis Donohew, Philip Palgreen, Rick Zimmerman, Nancy Harrington, Derek Lane -- Cognitive vulnerability to depression: implications for adolescent risk behavior in general / Lauren B. Alloy, Lin Zhu, Lyn Y. Abramson -- Peers and parents -- EMOSA sexuality models, memes and the tipping point: policy and program implications / Joseph Lee Rodgers -- Sustaining and broadening intervention effect: social norms, core values and parents / Bonita F. Stanton, James Burns -- Media interventions -- Adolescent risk behavior research and media-based health messages / Barbara Delaney -- Using beliefs about positive and negative consequences as the basis for designing message interventions for lowering risky behavior / Joseph N. Cappella, Marco Yzer, Martin Fishbein. Perspectives from different risk research traditions -- Gambling -- Adolescent gambling: risk factors and implications for prevention, intervention and treatment / Mark Griffiths -- Understanding youth gambling problems: a conceptual framework / Jeffrey L. Derevensky, Rina Gupta, Laurie Dickson, Karen Hardoon, Anne-Elyse Deguire -- A perspective on adolescent gambling: relationship to other risk behaviors and implications for prevention strategies / Marc N. Potenza -- Why pay attention to adolescent gambling? / Rachel A. Volberg -- Sexual behavior -- Risk and protective factors affecting teen pregnancy and the effectiveness of programs designed to address them / Douglas Kirby -- Healthy sexual development: notes on programs that reduce the risk of early initiation and adolescent pregnancy / Mignon R. Moore, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn -- Adolescent sex and the rhetoric of risk -- Suicide -- Suicide risk among adolescents / Madelyn S. Gould -- Some strategies to prevent youth suicide / David A. Brent -- Implications of focusing on black youth self-destructive behaviors instead of suicide when designing preventive interventions / Sean Joe. Alcohol, tobacco and drugs -- Alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use among youth: same-time and lagged and simultaneous-change associations in a nationally representative sample of 9- to 18-year olds/ Robert Hornik -- Overarching approaches and recommendations for future research -- Positive youth development is necessary and possible / Brian R. Flay -- Youth development programs and healthy development: a review and next steps / Jodie L. Roth, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn -- A contextual perspective for understanding and preventing STD/HIV among adolescents / Ralph J. DiClemente, Gina M. Wingood, Richard A. Crosby -- Findings and future directions / Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Daniel Romer.
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks, Calif : Sage Publications
• Publication Date: 2003
• Copyright Date: 2003
• Extent: 1 online resource (xx, 515 pages :), illustrations
• Subjects: 613/.0433; Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence -- Prevention -- Congresses; Adolescent psychology -- Congresses; Adolescent Behavior -- psychology; Risk-Taking; Adolescent; Health Behavior; Health Promotion; Prise de risque chez l'adolescent -- Prévention -- Congrès; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Healthy Living; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference; MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine; Adolescent psychology; Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence -- Prevention; Adolescenten; Risico nemen; Jugend; Risikoverhalten; Congresses; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781452264462; 1452264465; 9781452233611; 1452233616
• Related ISBNs: 9780761928355; 0761928359; 0761928367; 9780761928362
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-458) and indexes.
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