In this collection, leading experts on adolescent risk behavior present the most recent ideas and findings about the variety of behaviors that can compromise adolescent development. Among the topics the contributors explore are drug use, risky driving, early sexual activity, depression, and school disengagement. In particular, the volume emphasizes new perspectives on development and on person-centered analysis.
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"This is a well written book....of particular interest to clinicians with an interest in adolescent psychiatry." Laurence Jerome, Canadian Academy of Child Psychiatry
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In this collection of chapters, leading scholars of adolescent risk behavior present the most recent ideas and findings about the variety of behaviors that can compromise adolescent development, including drug use, risky driving, early sexual activity, depression, and school disengagement. In particular, the volume emphasizes new perspectives on development and on person-centered analysis.
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The past several decades have witnessed a remarkable invigoration of theoretical and empirical work on adolescent risk behaviors - behaviors that can, directly or indirectly, compromise the well-being, the health, and even the life course of young people. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
parent antisocial attitude, multiproblem boys, prodigal analysis, intensity high duration, drug use trajectories, school disengagement, high problem behaviors, course capitalization, current maternal smoking, risky driving practices, prenatal maternal smoking, disengagement from school, youngest sample, adolescent work experience, different problem behaviors, depressed syndrome, adolescent risk behavior, school problem behavior, prenatal drinking, correlated constraints, various problem behaviors, parental permissiveness, sexual transitions, school engagement, graduated licensing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, African American, National Institute, Cambridge University Press, Clinical Psychology, Mean Socioeconomic, American Psychiatric Association, Psychological Bulletin, Academic Press, Drug Issues, Harvard University Press, Van Kammen, Newbury Park, Plenum Press, Research Monograph, University of Chicago Press, American Sociological Review, Archives of General Psychiatry, Child Behavior Checklist, American Psychologist, New Jersey, University of California Press, American Psychological Association, Beverly Hills, Bureau of the Census New!
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The past several decades have witnessed a remarkable invigoration of theoretical and empirical work on adolescent risk behaviors - behaviors that can, directly or indirectly, compromise the well-being, the health, and even the life course of young people. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
parent antisocial attitude, multiproblem boys, prodigal analysis, intensity high duration, drug use trajectories, school disengagement, high problem behaviors, course capitalization, current maternal smoking, risky driving practices, prenatal maternal smoking, disengagement from school, youngest sample, adolescent work experience, different problem behaviors, depressed syndrome, adolescent risk behavior, school problem behavior, prenatal drinking, correlated constraints, various problem behaviors, parental permissiveness, sexual transitions, school engagement, graduated licensing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, African American, National Institute, Cambridge University Press, Clinical Psychology, Mean Socioeconomic, American Psychiatric Association, Psychological Bulletin, Academic Press, Drug Issues, Harvard University Press, Van Kammen, Newbury Park, Plenum Press, Research Monograph, University of Chicago Press, American Sociological Review, Archives of General Psychiatry, Child Behavior Checklist, American Psychologist, New Jersey, University of California Press, American Psychological Association, Beverly Hills, Bureau of the Census New!
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- Child Development by Charlotte Patterson on page 306, page 308, and page 315
- Social Psychology: Experimental and Critical Approaches by Wendy Rogers on page 9, and page 311
- Child Psychology by Ross Vasta on page 83, and page 424
- Developmental Science (Cambridge Studies in Social and Emotional Development) by Robert B. Cairns in Front Matter, and page 9
- Child Development (4th Edition) by Robert S. Feldman on page 424
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- Working and Growing Up in America (Adolescent Lives) by Jeylan T. Mortimer in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties in Mainstream Schools (International Perspectives on Inclusive Education) (Advances in Gender Research) by John Visser on page 11, and page 12
- Suicide in Children and Adolescents (Cambridge Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) by Robert A. King on page 57, and page 59
- Psychology and Experience by Benjamin Bradley in Back Matter
- Research and Innovation: Festschrift for Professor Sir Michael Rutter by Bill Yule on page 16
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