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Adolescent risk behaviors : why teens experiment and strategies to keep them safe / David A. Wolfe, Peter G. Jaffe, Claire V. Crooks.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Current perspectives in psychologyPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2006]Copyright date: c2006Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 276 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300127447
  • 0300127448
  • 0300110804
  • 9780300110807
  • 1281740888
  • 9781281740885
  • 9786611740887
  • 6611740880
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Adolescent risk behaviors.DDC classification:
  • 155.4/18 22
LOC classification:
  • RJ506.R57 W65 2006eb
NLM classification:
  • 2006 H-613
  • WS 462
Online resources:
Contents:
Series foreword / Alan E. Kazdin -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Valuing adolescence -- Learning the rules of relating -- Dark side of the rules -- Choices and pressures of today's youth -- Making sense of making choices -- What works in prevention: promises and pitfalls -- Blueprint: best principles for program design -- Delivery: best practices for strengthening relationships and managing risks -- Context: overcoming barriers and engaging schools -- Evolution of universal efforts to reduce adolescent risk behaviors.
Summary: Annotation This book focuses on the crucial role that relationships play in the lives of teenagers. The authors particularly examine the ways that healthy relationships can help teens avoid such common risk behaviors as substance abuse, dating violence, sexual assault, and unsafe sexual practices. Addressing the current lack of effective prevention programs for teens, they present new strategies for encouraging healthy choices. The book first traces differences between the "rules of relating" for boys and girls and discusses typical and atypical patterns of experimentation in teens. The authors identify the common link among risk behaviors: the relationship connection. In the second part of the book, they examine the principles of successful programs used by schools and communities to cultivate healthy adolescent development. An illuminating conclusion describes the key ingredients for engaging adolescents, their parents, teachers, and communities in the effort to promote healthy, nonviolent relationships among teens.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-266) and index.

Series foreword / Alan E. Kazdin -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Valuing adolescence -- Learning the rules of relating -- Dark side of the rules -- Choices and pressures of today's youth -- Making sense of making choices -- What works in prevention: promises and pitfalls -- Blueprint: best principles for program design -- Delivery: best practices for strengthening relationships and managing risks -- Context: overcoming barriers and engaging schools -- Evolution of universal efforts to reduce adolescent risk behaviors.

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Annotation This book focuses on the crucial role that relationships play in the lives of teenagers. The authors particularly examine the ways that healthy relationships can help teens avoid such common risk behaviors as substance abuse, dating violence, sexual assault, and unsafe sexual practices. Addressing the current lack of effective prevention programs for teens, they present new strategies for encouraging healthy choices. The book first traces differences between the "rules of relating" for boys and girls and discusses typical and atypical patterns of experimentation in teens. The authors identify the common link among risk behaviors: the relationship connection. In the second part of the book, they examine the principles of successful programs used by schools and communities to cultivate healthy adolescent development. An illuminating conclusion describes the key ingredients for engaging adolescents, their parents, teachers, and communities in the effort to promote healthy, nonviolent relationships among teens.

English.

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