Research Catalog

Title

Handbook of adolescent health risk behavior / edited by Ralph J. DiClemente, William B. Hansen, and Lynn E. Ponton.

Publication

New York : Plenum Press, c1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• DiClemente, Ralph J.
• Hansen, William B. (William Bunker), 1949-
• Ponton, Lynn

Description

xxiii, 440 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Issues in clinical child psychology

Uniform Title

Issues in clinical child psychology.

Subjects

• Health Behavior
• Health Behavior > Adolescent
• Risk-Taking > Adolescent
• United States
• Health promotion
• Health Promotion
• Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence > United States
• Health behavior in adolescence > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. Adolescents at Risk: A Generation in Jeopardy / Ralph J. DiClemente, William B. Hansen and Lynn E. Ponton -- Ch. 2. Current Trends in Adolescent Health / C. Wayne Sells and Robert Wm. Blum -- Ch. 3. Theories of Adolescent Risk-Taking Behavior / Vivien Igra and Charles E. Irwin, Jr. -- Ch. 4. Tobacco Use / Cheryl L. Perry and Michael J. Staufacker -- Ch. 5. Disordered Eating / Lynn E. Ponton -- Ch. 6. Alcohol Use / Michael Windle, Jean Thatcher Shope and Oscar Bukstein -- Ch. 7. Drug Use / William B. Hansen and Patrick M. O'Malley -- Ch. 8. Suicide and Suicidal Behavior / Yifat Cohen, Anthony Spirito and Larry K. Brown -- Ch. 9. Unintentional Injury / Ilana Lescohier and Susan Scavo Gallagher -- Ch. 10. Delinquency / Denise C. Gottfredson, Miriam D. Sealock and Christopher S. Koper -- Ch. 11. Adolescent Violence / Arlene Rubin Stiffman, Felton Earls, Peter Dore, Renee Cunningham and Sharon Farber --
• Ch. 12. Adolescent Pregnancy / Catherine Stevens-Simon and Elizabeth R. McAnarney -- Ch. 13. Sexually Transmitted Diseases Including Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection / Lawrence J. D'Angelo and Ralph J. DiClemente -- Ch. 14. Runaway and Homeless Youths / Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, Michelle Parra, Coleen Cantwell, Marya Gwadz and Debra A. Murphy -- Ch. 15. Academic Underachievement and School Refusal / John B. Sikorski -- Ch. 16. New Directions for Adolescent Risk Prevention and Health Promotion Research and Interventions / Ralph J. DiClemente, Lynn E. Ponton and William B. Hansen.

ISBN

0306451476

LCCN

95043464

OCLC

• 33360043
• ocm33360043
• SCSB-4779720

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries