The Health of adolescents : understanding and facilitating biological, behavioral, and social development
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Bibliographic Information
The Health of adolescents : understanding and facilitating biological, behavioral, and social development
（Jossey-Bass health series）（The Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series）
Jossey-Bass, 1991
1st ed
- alk. paper
Available at 3 libraries
Note
"A publication of the American Medical Association"--Prelim. p
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Aimed at professionals who work with adolescents - including psychiatrists, clinical counsellors and school nurses - this comprehensive volume offers insights into promoting the social, physical and emotional well-being of young adults. In twenty-two chapters, experts from a wide range of disciplines look not only at successful programmes and intervention strategies for assisting youths, but examine the cultural and societal context of adolescent problems so that practitioners can recognize and address these underlying factors in their interventions - and thereby improve their effectiveness.
Table of Contents
- Sociodemographic trends and projections in the adolescent population. Part 1 Normal adolescent growth and development: physical growth and development in normal adolescents
- psychological development in normal adolescents. Part 2 Precursors of adolescent health problems: the influence of the family and social environment
- effects of poverty and affluence
- the role of education and extracurricular activities
- life-style, risk taking, and out-of-control behaviour. Part 3 Adolescent health issues: substance abuse
- sexually transmitted diseases
- pregnancy and its outcome
- chronic illness and disability
- injuries
- disorders of self-image, depression, and suicide
- maltreatment of adolescents. Part 4 Adolescents' access to care: difficulties in recognizing adolescent health issues
- analyzing, planning, implementing, and sustaining successful interventions
- overcoming barriers to health care access
- economic issues affecting health care access
- adolescents' compliance with therapeutic regimens. Part 5 Meeting the Health Service needs of adolescents
- the responsibility of health care professionals toward adolescents
- the role of social support and social networks in improving the health of adolescents.
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