Research Catalog

Title

Adolescent risk behaviors : why teens experiment and strategies to keep them safe / David A. Wolfe, Peter G. Jaffe, Claire V. Crooks.

Author

Wolfe, David A. (David Allen), 1951-

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.

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• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jaffe, Peter G.
• Crooks, Claire V.

Description

xvi, 276 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Current perspectives in psychology

Subject

• Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence > Prevention

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-266) and index.

Contents

Series foreword / Alan E. Kazdin -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Valuing adolescence -- Learning the rules of relating -- The dark side of the rules -- Choices and pressures of today's youth -- Making sense of making choices -- What works in prevention: promises and pitfalls -- The blueprint: best principles for program design -- The delivery: best practices for strengthening relationships and managing risks -- The context: overcoming barriers and engaging schools -- The evolution of universal efforts to reduce adolescent risk behaviors.

Call Number

JFE 06-8648

ISBN

0300110804 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005029945
• 9780300110807

OCLC

62123304

Author

Wolfe, David A. (David Allen), 1951-

Title

Adolescent risk behaviors : why teens experiment and strategies to keep them safe / David A. Wolfe, Peter G. Jaffe, Claire V. Crooks.

Imprint

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.

Series

Current perspectives in psychology

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-266) and index.

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Table of contents

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Added Author

Jaffe, Peter G.

Crooks, Claire V.

Other Standard Identifier

9780300110807

Research Call Number

JFE 06-8648