Reducing Adolescent Risk : Toward an Integrated Approach

by Daniel Romer

• ISBN13: 9780761928355
• ISBN10: 0761928359
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-10
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc

Summary

"What an extraordinary volume! This book brings together current research integrating adolescent risk and protection across a wide range of topics and disciplines. It is a major contribution to the field." a?? Robert Wm. Blum, MD, MPH, PhD, Professor and Director, Center for Adolescent Health and Development, University of Minnesota "This book is clearly the best source now available on the topic of adolescent risk taking and its prevention. With chapters written by the very best people in the field, describing the latest thinking and findings, it is an essential guide and resource for prevention researchers and program developers." a?? Bruce Simons-Morton, EdD, MPH, Chief, Prevention Research Branch Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development "This report shines a bright light on the road our nation has taken to improve adolescent health, the approaching fork, and the path most likely to attain our destination." a?? Lloyd J. Kolbe, PhD, Director, Division of Adolescent and School Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control And Prevention "Reducing Adolescent Risk: Toward an Integrated Approach weaves together current research findings with prevailing prevention strategies to shed further light on the developmental pathways leading to a variety of interrelated adolescent risk behaviors. In doing so, the authors skillfully make the case for more integrated policy approaches and for comprehensive programming at the community level that both recognizes the connections between risk behaviors and maximizes young people's positive potential." a?? Karen Pittman, Executive Director, The Forum for Youth Investment & President, Impact Strategies, Inc. Many risk behaviors have common developmental pathways. However, most prevention strategies approach adolescent risk behaviors as individual problems requiring separate solutions. This policy of treating one behavior at a time encourages a fractured approach to adolescent health. Reducing Adolescent Risk: Toward an Integrated Approach focuses on common influences that result in a number of interrelated risk behaviors in order to design more unified, comprehensive prevention strategies. Edited by Daniel Romer, this book summarizes presentations and discussions held at the Adolescent Risk Communication Institute of the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg Public Policy Center. Concentrating on common causes for varied risk behaviors, a group of leading researchers and intervention specialists from different health traditions synthesize current knowledge about risks to adolescent health in several areas, including drugs and alcohol, tobacco, unprotected sex, suicide and depression, and gambling. Promoting healthy adolescent development, this innovative volume includes Results of the National Risk Survey Contributions from experts on adolescent decision making and problem solving Research agendas for programs that reduce multiple risks Potential intervention strategies to reduce more than one risk at a time Major findings from the conference that should be pursued in future

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Preface	xiii
Daniel Romer
Prospects for an Integrated Approach to Adolescent Risk Reduction	1	(8)
Daniel Romer
Part I: Adolescents as Decision Makers	9	(1)
Section A. Differing Views of Adolescent Decision Making	9	(24)
Changing Views on the Nature and Prevention of Adolescent Risk Taking	11	(7)
James P. Byrnes
Is Decision Making the Right Framework for Research on Adolescent Risk Taking?	18	(7)
Laurence Steinberg
The Two Faces of Adolescent Invulnerability	25	(8)
Daniel K. Lapsley
Section B. Affect, Risk Perception, and Behavior	33	(50)
Risk Perception: Construct Development, Links to Theory, Correlates, and Manifestations	35	(9)
Susan G. Millstein
Affect, Analysis, Adolescence, and Risk	44	(5)
Paul Slovic
Toward an Understanding of the Role of Perceived Risk in HIV Prevention Research	49	(7)
Martin Fishbein
Alcohol and Illicit Drugs: The Role of Risk Perceptions	56	(19)
Lloyd D. Johnston
Adolescents' Risk Perceptions and Behavioral Willingness: Implications for Intervention	75	(8)
Meg Gerrard
Frederick X. Gibbons
Michelle L. Gano
Section C. Problem-Solving Approaches	83	(40)
A Problem-Solving Approach to Preventing Early High-Risk Behaviors in Children and Preteens	85	(8)
Myrna B. Shure
Contemporary School-Based Prevention Approaches and the Perceived Risks and Benefits of Substance Use	93	(6)
Kenneth W. Griffin
Decision-Making Competence and Risk Behavior	99	(7)
Andrew M. Parker
Baruch Fischhoff
Time Perspective: A Potentially Important Construct for Decreasing Health Risk Behaviors Among Adolescents	106	(7)
Geoffrey T. Fong
Peter A. Hall
The Influence of School Atmosphere and Development on Adolescents' Perceptions of Risk and Prevention: Cynicism Versus Skepticism	113	(10)
Maria D. LaRusso
Robert L. Selman
Part II: Common Pathways and Influences on Adolescent Risk Behavior	123	(1)
Section A. Multiple-Problem Youth	123	(24)
Preventing Multiple Problem Behaviors in Adolescence	125	(7)
Anthony Biglan
Christine Cody
Screening and Early Intervention for Antisocial Youth Within School Settings as a Strategy for Reducing Substance Use	132	(7)
Herbert H. Severson
Judy Andrews
Hill M. Walker
Preventive Interventions for Externalizing Disorders in Adolescents	139	(8)
Ken C. Winters
Gerald August
Willa Leitten
Section B. Personality and Other Predispositions	147	(36)
Genetic Basis of Substance Use and Dependence: Implications for Prevention in High-Risk Youth	149	(16)
Caryn Lerman
Freda Patterson
Alexandra Shields
Health Risk Takers and Prevention	165	(6)
Lewis Donohew
Philip Palmgreen
Rick Zimmerman
Nancy Harrington
Derek Lane
Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression: Implications for Adolescent Risk Behavior in General	171	(12)
Lauren B. Alloy
Lin Zhu
Lyn Y. Abramson
Section C. Peers and Parents	183	(18)
EMOSA Sexuality Models, Memes, and the Tipping Point: Policy and Program Implications	185	(8)
Joseph Lee Rodgers
Sustaining and Broadening Intervention Effect: Social Norms, Core Values, and Parents	193	(8)
Bonita F. Stanton
James Burns
Section D. Media Interventions	201	(20)
Adolescent Risk Behavior Research and Media-Based Health Messages	203	(7)
Barbara Delaney
Using Beliefs About Positive and Negative Consequences as the Basis for Designing Message Interventions for Lowering Risky Behavior	210	(11)
Joseph N. Cappella
Marco Yzer
Martin Fishbein
Part III: Perspectives From Different Risk Research Traditions	221	(1)
Section A. Gambling	221	(42)
Adolescent Gambling: Risk Factors and Implications for Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment	223	(16)
Mark Griffiths
Understanding Youth Gambling Problems: A Conceptual Framework	239	(8)
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	247	(9)
Marc N. Potenza
Why Pay Attention to Adolescent Gambling?	256	(7)
Rachel A. Volberg
Section B. Sexual Behavior	263	(38)
Risk and Protective Factors Affecting Teen Pregnancy and the Effectiveness of Programs Designed to Address Them	265	(19)
Douglas Kirby
Healthy Sexual Development: Notes on Programs That Reduce the Risk of Early Sexual Initiation and Adolescent Pregnancy	284	(9)
Mignon R. Moore
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Adolescent Sex and the Rhetoric of Risk	293	(8)
J. Dennis Fortenberry
Section C. Suicide	301	(32)
Suicide Risk Among Adolescents	303	(18)
Madelyn S. Gould
Some Strategies to Prevent Youth Suicide	321	(4)
David A. Brent
Implications of Focusing on Black Youth Self-Destructive Behaviors Instead of Suicide When Designing Preventive Interventions	325	(8)
Sean Joe
Section D. Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs	333	(12)
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	335	(10)
Robert Hornik
Part IV: Overarching Approaches and Recommendations for Future Research	345	(34)
Positive Youth Development Is Necessary and Possible	347	(8)
Brian R. Flay
Youth Development Programs and Healthy Development: A Review and Next Steps	355	(11)
Jodie L. Roth
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
A Contextual Perspective for Understanding and Preventing STD/HIV Among Adolescents	366	(8)
Ralph J. DiClemente
Gina M. Wingood
Richard A. Crosby
Findings and Future Directions	374	(5)
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Daniel Romer
Appendix A	379	(3)
Appendix B	382