Adolescents and the Media: Medical and Psychological Impact (Developmental Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry) [Paperback]

Victor C. Strasburger (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 23, 1995 | ISBN-10: 0803955006 | ISBN-13: 978-0803955004 | Edition: 1

Violent television programmes and video games, printed tobacco advertisements, television beer commercials and sexually suggestive music videos: how do these and other forms of popular media affect teenagers' thinking, behaviour and health?

This volume clearly makes the case that the media play a role in diverse facets of at-risk behaviour and adjustment. The author reviews current research findings on the influences of media on adolescents, how the influences occur, and the short- and long-term effects of exposure. He explores topics critical to mental and physical health including teenage violence, sexual activity, substance abuse and eating disorders.

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About the Author

Victor C. Strasburger is Chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics, and Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of New Mexico.  He graduate from Yale College, where he studied fiction writing with Robert Penn Warren, and from Harvard Medical School.  He trained at the Children's Hospital in Seattle, St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and the Boston Children's Hospital.  He has authored more than 120 articles and papers and 8 books on the subject of adolescent medicine and the effets of television on children and adolescents.  In 2000, he was recipient of the American Academy of Pediatrics' Adele Delenbaugh Hofmann Award for outstanding lifetime achievement in Adolescent Medicine and the Holroyd-Sherry Awrd for outstanding achievement in public health and the media.  He is a consultant to the American Academy of Pediatrics' Committee on Communications, has served as a consultant to the National PTA nd the American Medical Association on the subject of children and television, and lectures frequently throughout the country.

Product Details

• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc; 1 edition (February 23, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0803955006
• ISBN-13: 978-0803955004
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,442,236 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Dr. Vic Strasburger is currently Chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics, and Professor of Family & Community Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was graduated from Yale College (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), where he studied fiction writing with Robert Penn Warren. He went to
Harvard Medical School and did his pediatric residency at Children's Hospital in Seattle, Children's Hospital in Boston, and Paddington Green Children's Hospital in London. He completed an Adolescent Medicine Fellowship at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Strasburger has authored more than 160 articles and papers and 8 books on the subjects of adolescent medicine, and the effects of television on children and adolescents, including ADOLESCENT MEDICINE: A PRACTICAL GUIDE (2nd edition, 2006, Lippincott-Williams & Wilkins, with Dr. Robert Brown) and ADOLESCENTS AND THE MEDIA (Sage, 1995). His most popular book is entitled, GETTING YOUR KIDS TO SAY NO IN THE 1990S WHEN YOU SAID YES IN THE 1960S (Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1993). His current book is a textbook: CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS, AND THE MEDIA, co-authored with Barbara Wilson, Ph.D. and Amy Jordan, Ph.D. and published by SAGE Publications in Newbury Park, California in 2009. He also has one published novel, entitled ROUNDING THIRD & HEADING HOME. He has served as Chair of the AAP's Section on Adolescent Health, a member of the Committee on Communications, and a consultant to the National PTA and the AMA on children and the media. He has been featured several times on National Public Radio (NPR) and in Newsweek, the NY Times, and USA Today and has appeared multiple times on "Oprah," "The Today Show," and "CBS This Morning."

In the year 2000, Dr. Strasburger was honored by the American Academy of Pediatrics with the Adele Delenbaugh Hofmann Award, for outstanding lifetime achievement in Adolescent Medicine, and was the first recipient of the Holroyd-Sherry Award, given for media Advocacy work. In 2007, he was awarded the Society for Adolescent Medicine's Adele Hofmann Visiting Professorship and lectured at Sydney Children's Hospital in Australia. In 2009, he served as the AAP Council on Communication and Media's first Visiting Professor and did Pediatric Grand Rounds at Duke, UNC, and Wake Forest. He has lectured in 45 of the 50 US states and on 5 continents.

Dr. Strasburger lives in Albuquerque with his wife (a neuropsychiatrist) and his two children, Max (age 19) and Katya (age 16).