Adolescent Health : Understanding and Preventing Risk Behaviors

by Editor: Ralph J. DiClemente (Emory University, Atlanta, GA); Editor: John S. Santelli; Editor: Richard A. Crosby

• ISBN13: 9780470452790
• ISBN10: 047045279X
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-04-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

This substantially revised second edition of Emerging Theories in Health Promotion Practice and Research focusing on the most current research on individual, community, and ecological approaches. The 17 theories described cover the spectrum of health behavior and behavior change, including social influences, self-esteem, conservation of resources, self-determination, community coalition, community capacity, natural helpers, prevention marketing, social action, gender and power, triadic influence, and interactive domain. Each chapter includes a summary, and the contents are bracketed by individual chapters on foundations of theory, and applying of theory.

Table of Contents

List of Figures, Tables, and Exhibits

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Preface

The Contributors

Foundations And Theory In Adolescent Health Risk Behavior

Adolescents At Risk: A Generation In Jeopardy

Trends In Adolescent And Young Adult Morbidity And Mortality

Population Characteristics

Mortality

High-Risk Behaviors as Underlying Causes of Death

Mental Health

Theories Of Adolescent Risk Taking: The Biopsychosocial Model

Biologically Based Theories of Risk Taking

Psychologically Based Theories of Risk Taking

Social and Environmental Theories of Risk Taking

The Biopsychosocial Model of Risk Taking

4

Defi ning the Terms

Conceptual Framework

Ecological Factors

Adolescent Neurodevelopment, Stress, and Resilience

Resilience and Evidence-Based Interventions

Theories And Models Of Adolescent Decision Making

Key Concepts and Research Findings

Decision Science and Social Cognition Models of Health Behavior

Adolescents and Adults

Biological Underpinnings Of Adolescent Development

The Organizational-Activational Hypothesis: Hormonal Changes from Fetal Through Adolescent Development

Positive Youth Development: Contemporary Theoretical Perspectives

Prior Theoretical Models of Adolescent Development

Origins of the Positive Youth Development Perspective

Defi ning Features of Developmental Systems Theories

Features of the PYD Perspective

Preventing Key Health Risk Behaviors

Tobacco Use And Adolescent Health

Scope of the Problem and Health Outcomes

Strategies for Reducing the Risk of Tobacco Use Among Adolescents

Understanding And Preventing Risks For Adolescent Obesity

Health Promotion and Risk Prevention

Adolescent Alcohol Use

Epidemiology of Alcohol Use Among Teens

Promoting Health and Preventing Risk of Alcohol Use Among Youth

Substance Use Among Adolescents: Risk, Prevention, And Treatment

Epidemiology of Adolescents' Illicit Substance Use

Risk and Protective Factors for Adolescent Substance Abuse

Prevention of Adolescents' Illicit Substance Use

Treatment of Adolescent Substance Abuse and Dependence

Adolescent Violence: Risk, Resilience, And Prevention

Epidemiology

Key Concepts

Examples of Resiliency-Based Interventions Used in Schools

Prevention Of Suicidal Behavior During Adolescence

Epidemiology

Prevention

Unintentional Injuries Among Adolescents

Unintentional Injuries

Motor Vehicle Injuries

Strategies for Reducing Motor Vehicle-Related Injuries

Home and Recreation Injuries

Strategies for Reducing Home and Recreation Injuries

Settings for Adolescent Injury

Preventing and Controlling Injuries

Sexually Transmitted Disease Transmission And Pregnancy Among Adolescents

Epidemiology

Key Concepts and Research Findings

Interventions To Prevent Pregnancy And Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Including Hiv Infection

Methods Used in This Review

Curriculum-Based Sex and STD/HIV Education Programs

Youth Development Programs

Intensive Programs Combining Youth Development and Reproductive Health

Communitywide Pregnancy or STD/HIV Prevention Programs

Populations, Policy, And Prevention Strategies

Incarcerated And Delinquent Youth

Comparisons

Key Concepts: Health Conditions and Health Behavior

Roles for Health Professionals

The Health-Promoting Correctional Facility

Depression And Sexual Risk Behavior In Adolescents

Epidemiology of HIV, STIs, and Pregnancy in Adolescents

Depressive Symptoms, Mood Disorders, and Emotional Distress in Adolescents

Interventions

Implications for Research

Implications for Health Care

Connectedness In The Lives Of Adolescents

Key Concepts and Research Findings: What Is Meant by "Connectedness"?

Family Influences On Adolescent Health

Key Concepts and Research Findings

Future Directions for Family-Focused Research

Media Exposure And Adolescents' Health behavior

Teens and Media Use

The Infl uence of Media on Adolescents

Solutions: Improving Media for Adolescents

Technological Advances In Modifying Adolescent Health Risk Behaviors

Key Concepts and Research Findings

Measuring Adolescent Health Behaviors

Types of Measures

Measurement Error

Brief Motivational Interventions For Adolescent Health Promotion In Clinical Settings

Brief Intervention

Health Policy Approaches To Reduce Adolescent Risk Behavior And Adverse Health Consequences

The Ecological Model

Principles of Policy Approaches

Tobacco

Alcohol

Driving

Physical Activity and Obesity

Violence

Sexual Health

Legal And Ethical Issues In Adolescent Health Care And Research

Health, Human Rights, and Ethical Principles

Legal Status of Adolescents and Access to Health Care

Research Regulation and Ethics

Adolescent Risk Behaviors And Adverse Health Outcomes: Future Directions For Research, Practice, And Policy

Prevention Research and Practice Are Interdisciplinary

Adolescent Health Promotion Needs to Address Multiple Levels of Causality

Strategies Are Needed to Improve the Sustainability of Health Promotion Programs

New and Promising Theoretical Orientations

The Need to Improve Prevention Program Transfer

The Need to Measure Cost-Effectiveness in Health Promotion Research

Interactions Between Spheres of Infl uence: Lessons for the Future

Name Index

Subject Index

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