| Description |
xx, 515 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Prospects for an integrated approach to adolescent risk reduction / Daniel Romer -- Part 1. Adolescents as decision makers Sect. 1. 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 -- Sect. B. 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 -- Sect. C. 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 -- |
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Part 2. Common pathways and influences on adolescent risk behavior Sect. A. 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 -- Sect. B. 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 Palmgreen, 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 -- Sect. C. 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 -- Sect. D. 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 --The infl |
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Part 3. Perspectives from different risk research traditions Sect. A. Gambling Adolescent gambling: risk factord 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 -- Sect. B. 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 sexual initiation and adolescent pregnancy / Mignon R. Moore, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn -- Adolescent sex and the rhetoric of risk / J. Dennis Fortenberry -- Sect. C. 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 -- Sect. D. Alcohol, tobacco, and drugs Alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use among youth: same-time and lagged simultaneous-change associations in a nationally representative sample of 9- to 18-year-olds / Robert Hornik --ky behavi |
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Part 4. 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-Dunn -- 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 -- Appendix A -- Appendix B |
| Notes |
Based on a conference |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-458) and indexes |
| Subject |
Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence -- Prevention.
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| Author |
Romer, Daniel, 1946-
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| LC no. |
2003002701 |
| ISBN |
0761928359 cased |
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0761928367 paperback |
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