Adolescent risk behaviors : why teens experiment and strategies to keep them safe /

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Annotation This book focuses on the crucial role that relationships play in the lives of teenagers. The authors particularly examine the ways that healthy relationships can help teens avoid such common risk behaviors as substance abuse, dating violence, sexual assault, and unsafe sexual practices. A...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Wolfe, David A. (David Allen), 1951- (Author), Jaffe, Peter G. (Author), Crooks, Claire V. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2006]
Series:Current perspectives in psychology.
Subjects:
Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence > Prevention.
Risk-taking (Psychology)
Risk Reduction Behavior
Risk-Taking
Adolescent Behavior > psychology
Adolescent
Counseling > methods
Health Promotion > methods
Interpersonal Relations
Prise de risque.
PSYCHOLOGY > Developmental > Child.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychotherapy > Child & Adolescent.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Child Development.
PSYCHOLOGY > General.
Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence > Prevention
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Series foreword / Alan E. Kazdin
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Valuing adolescence
  • Learning the rules of relating
  • Dark side of the rules
  • Choices and pressures of today's youth
  • Making sense of making choices
  • What works in prevention: promises and pitfalls
  • Blueprint: best principles for program design
  • Delivery: best practices for strengthening relationships and managing risks
  • Context: overcoming barriers and engaging schools
  • Evolution of universal efforts to reduce adolescent risk behaviors.

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