Reducing Adolescent Risk

Toward an Integrated Approach

Daniel Romer

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2003
• Print ISBN: 9780761928362, 9780761928355
• eBook ISBN: 9781452264462
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychologie
• Subtopic: Psychologie du développement

"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."

— 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."

— 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."

— 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."

— 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 research

Primarily intended for graduate students, scholars, and researchers in psychology, sociology, social work, and public health, Reducing Adolescent Risk is also an extraordinary resource for policy makers in government organizations and foundations.

 

 

Table of contents

• 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 Research
• 8 - 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 Adolescents
• 14 - 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 Adolescents
• Part 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 Interventions
• 23 - 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
• 28 - Why Pay Attention to Adolescent Gambling?
• Part III: Section B - Sexual Behavior
• 29 - Risk and Protective Factors Affecting Teen Pregnancy and the Effectiveness of Programs Designed to Address Them
• 30 - Healthy Sexual Development: Notes on Programs That Reduce the Risk of Early Sexual Initiation and Adolescent Pregnancy
• 31 - Adolescent Sex and the Rhetoric of Risk
• Part III: Section C - Suicide
• 32 - Suicide Risk Among Adolescents
• 33 - Some Strategies to Prevent Youth Suicide
• 34 - Implications of Focusing on Black Youth Self-Destructive Behaviors Instead of Suicide When Designing Preventive Interventions
• Part III: Section D - Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs
• 35 - 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
• Part IV: OVERARCHING APPROACHES AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH
• 36 - Positive Youth Development Is Necessary and Possible
• 37 - Youth Development Programs and Healthy Development: A Review and Next Steps
• 38 - A Contextual Perspective for Understanding and Preventing STD/HIV Among Adolescents
• 39 - Findings and Future Directions
• Appendix A - Reducing Adolescent Risk: Conference Schedule, June 27-30, 2002
• Appendix B - Conference Attendees, June 27 – June 30, 2002
• References
• Name Index
• Subject Index
• About the Editor
• About the Contributors