Adolescents at risk : medical and social perspectives
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Adolescents at risk : medical and social perspectives
Westview Press, 1992
- : hard
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This text seeks to examine the factors that cause teenage violence, risky sexual behaviour (including risk of AIDS), and alcohol and drug abuse. It also addresses the guidelines that should be followed by those who seek to reduce societal costs resulting from the disfunctional behaviour of young people unable to make the transition from adolescence to young adulthood without special assistance and support. The policy and health issues discussed here by major transitioners and scholars will be of importance to those policymakers and other professionals who must deal with them on a daily basis.
Table of Contents
- Etiologies of adolescents at risk, Jerome Kagen
- risk behaviour in adolescence - a psychosocial framework for understanding and action, Richard Jessor
- adolescent sexuality - the problems of negative outcomes of a normative behaviour, Charles E. Irwin, Jr and Mary-Ann Shafer
- problems of alcohol and other drug abuse and abuse in adolescents, Hoover Adger
- AIDS and adolescence - a challenge to both treatment and prevention, Stephen C. Joseph
- not fear, nor quarantine, but science - preparation for a decade of research to advance knowledge about, and to control, violence in youth, Felton Earls
- providing primary care to the adolescent, J. Emilio Carrillo
- adolescents at risk - a summation of work in the field - programmes and policies, Joy G. Dryfoos
- adolescents at risk - new directions, David Mechanic.
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