Reducing adolescent risk [[electronic resource] ] : toward an integrated approach / / Daniel Romer, editor

• Pubblicazione: Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, c2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (537 p.)
• Disciplina: 613.0433
• Soggetto topico: Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence - Prevention; Adolescent psychology
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: RomerDaniel <1946->
• Note generali: Based on a conference.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-458) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 - Prospects for an Integrated Approach to Adolescent Risk Reduction; Part I: ADOLESCENTS AS DECISION MAKERS: Section A - Differing Views of Adolescent Decision Making; 2 - Changing Views on the Nature and Prevention of Adolescent Risk Taking; 3 - Is Decision Making the Right Framework for Research on Adolescent Risk Taking?; 4 - The Two Faces of Adolescent Invulnerability; Part I: Section B - Affect, Risk Perception, and Behavior; 5 - Risk Perception: Construct Development, Links to Theory, Correlates, and Manifestations; 6 - Affect, Analysis, Adolescence, and Risk ; 7 - Toward an Understanding of the Role of Perceived Risk in HIV Prevention Research8 - Alcohol and Illicit Drugs: The Role of Risk Perceptions; 9 - Adolescents' Risk Perceptions and Behavioral Willingness: Implications for Intervention; Part I: Section C - Problem-Solving Approaches; 10 - A Problem-Solving Approach to Preventing Early High-Risk Behaviors in Children and Preteens; 11 - Contemporary School-Based Prevention Approaches and the Perceived Risks and Benefits of Substance Use; 12 - Decision-Making Competence and Risk Behavior ; 13 - Time Perspective: A Potentially Important Construct for Decreasing Health Risk Behaviors Among Adolescents14 - The Influence of School Atmosphere and Development on Adolescents' Perceptions of Risk and Prevention: Cynicism Versus Skepticism; Part II: COMMON PATHWAYS AND INFLUENCES ON ADOLESCENT RISK BEHAVIOR: Section A - Multiple-Problem Youth; 15 - Preventing Multiple Problem Behaviors in Adolescence; 16 - Screening and Early Intervention for Antisocial Youth Within School Settings as a Strategy for Reducing Substance Use ; 17 - Preventive Interventions for Externalizing Disorders in AdolescentsPart II: Section B - Personality and Other Predispositions; 18 - Genetic Basis of Substance Use and Dependence: Implications for Prevention in High-Risk Youth; 19 - Health Risk Takers and Prevention; 20 - Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression: Implications for Adolescent Risk Behavior in General; Part II: Section C - Peers and Parents; 21 - EMOSA Sexuality Models, Memes, and the Tipping Point: Policy and Program Implications; 22 - Sustaining and Broadening Intervention Effect: Social Norms, Core Values, and Parents ; Part II: Section D - Media Interventions23 - Adolescent Risk Behavior Research and Media-Based Health Messages; 24 - Using Beliefs About Positive and Negative Consequences as the Basis for Designing Message Interventions for Lowering Risky Behavior; Part III - PERSPECTIVES FROM DIFFERENT RISK RESEARCH TRADITIONS: Section A - Gambling; 25 - Adolescent Gambling: Risk Factors and Implications for Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment; 26 - Understanding Youth Gambling Problems: A Conceptual Framework ; 27 - A Perspective on Adolescent Gambling: Relationship to Other Risk Behaviors and Implications for Prevention Strategies
• Sommario/riassunto: Current policies treat adolescent risk behaviours as separate problems requiring separate solutions, ignoring the overlap of many risk behaviours. This text seeks to move beyond the fractured approach of preventing one kind of behaviour at a time and suggests more comprehensive prevention strategies.
• Titolo autorizzato: Reducing adolescent risk
• ISBN: 1-322-41561-7; 1-4522-3361-6; 1-4522-6446-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910481040803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II