Reducing adolescent risk : toward an integrated approach / Daniel Romer, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Romer, Daniel, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence--Prevention--Congresses.

Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence.

Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence--Prevention.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xx, 515 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [2003]

Summary:

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.

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.

Contents:

1. Prospects for an Integrated Approach to Adolescent Risk Reduction / Daniel Romer 1

Part I Adolescents as Decision Makers 9

Section A. Differing Views of Adolescent Decision Making 9

2. Changing Views on the Nature and Prevention of Adolescent Risk Taking / James P. Byrnes 11

3. Is Decision Making the Right Framework for Research on Adolescent Risk Taking? / Laurence Steinberg 18

4. The Two Faces of Adolescent Invulnerability / Daniel K. Lapsley 25

Section B. Affect, Risk Perception, and Behavior 33

5. Risk Perception: Construct Development, Links to Theory, Correlates, and Manifestations / Susan G. Millstein 35

6. Affect, Analysis, Adolescence, and Risk / Paul Slovic 44

7. Toward an Understanding of the Role of Perceived Risk in HIV Prevention Research / Martin Fishbein 49

8. Alcohol and Illicit Drugs: The Role of Risk Perceptions / Lloyd D. Johnston 56

9. Adolescents' Risk Perceptions and Behavioral Willingness: Implications for Intervention / Meg Gerrard, Frederick X. Gibbons, Michelle L. Gano 75

Section C. Problem-Solving Approaches 83

10. A Problem-Solving Approach to Preventing Early High-Risk Behaviors in Children and Preteens / Myrna B. Shure 85

11. Contemporary School-Based Prevention Approaches and the Perceived Risks and Benefits of Substance Use / Kenneth W. Griffin 93

12. Decision-Making Competence and Risk Behavior / Andrew M. Parker, Baruch Fischhoff 99

13. Time Perspective: A Potentially Important Construct for Decreasing Health Risk Behaviors Among Adolescents / Geoffrey T. Fong, Peter A. Hall 106

14. The Influence of School Atmosphere and Development on Adolescents' Perceptions of Risk and Prevention: Cynicism Versus Skepticism / Maria D. LaRusso, Robert L. Selman 113

Part II Common Pathways and Influences on Adolescent Risk Behavior 123

Section A. Multiple-Problem Youth 123

15. Preventing Multiple Problem Behaviors in Adolescence / Anthony Biglan, Christine Cody 125

16. Screening and Early Intervention for Antisocial Youth Within School Settings as a Strategy for Reducing Substance Use / Herbert H. Severson, Judy Andrews, Hill M. Walker 132

17. Preventive Interventions for Externalizing Disorders in Adolescents / Ken C. Winters, Gerald August, Willa Leitten 139

Section B. Personality and Other Predispositions 147

18. Genetic Basis of Substance Use and Dependence: Implications for Prevention in High-Risk Youth / Caryn Lerman, Freda Patterson, Alexandra Shields 149

19. Health Risk Takers and Prevention / Lewis Donohew, Philip Palmgreen, Rick Zimmerman, Nancy Harrington, Derek Lane 165

20. Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression: Implications for Adolescent Risk Behavior in General / Lauren B. Alloy, Lin Zhu, Lyn Y. Abramson 171

Section C. Peers and Parents 183

21. EMOSA Sexuality Models, Memes, and the Tipping Point: Policy and Program Implications / Joseph Lee Rodgers 185

22. Sustaining and Broadening Intervention Effect: Social Norms, Core Values, and Parents / Bonita F. Stanton, James Burns 193

Section D. Media Interventions 201

23. Adolescent Risk Behavior Research and Media-Based Health Messages / Barbara Delaney 203

24. Using Beliefs About Positive and Negative Consequences as the Basis for Designing Message Interventions for Lowering Risky Behavior / Joseph N. Cappella, Marco Yzer, Martin Fishbein 210

Part III Perspectives From Different Risk Research Traditions 221

Section A. Gambling 221

25. Adolescent Gambling: Risk Factors and Implications for Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment / Mark Griffiths 223

26. Understanding Youth Gambling Problems: A Conceptual Framework / Jeffrey L. Derevensky, Rina Gupta, Laurie Dickson, Karen Hardoon, Anne-Elyse Deguire 239

27. A Perspective on Adolescent Gambling: Relationship to Other Risk Behaviors and Implications for Prevention Strategies / Marc N. Potenza 247

28. Why Pay Attention to Adolescent Gambling? / Rachel A. Volberg 256

Section B. Sexual Behavior 263

29. Risk and Protective Factors Affecting Teen Pregnancy and the Effectiveness of Programs Designed to Address Them / Douglas Kirby 265

30. Healthy Sexual Development: Notes on Programs That Reduce the Risk of Early Sexual Initiation and Adolescent Pregnancy / Mignon R. Moore, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn 284

31. Adolescent Sex and the Rhetoric of Risk / J. Dennis Fortenberry 293

Section C. Suicide 301

32. Suicide Risk Among Adolescents / Madelyn S. Gould 303

33. Some Strategies to Prevent Youth Suicide / David A. Brent 321

34. Implications of Focusing on Black Youth Self-Destructive Behaviors Instead of Suicide When Designing Preventive Interventions / Sean Joe 325

Section D. Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs 333

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 / Robert Hornik 335

Part IV Overarching Approaches and Recommendations for Future Research 345

36. Positive Youth Development Is Necessary and Possible / Brian R. Flay 347

37. Youth Development Programs and Healthy Development: A Review and Next Steps / Jodie L. Roth, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn 355

38. A Contextual Perspective for Understanding and Preventing STD/HIV Among Adolescents / Ralph J. DiClemente, Gina M. Wingood, Richard A. Crosby 366

39. Findings and Future Directions / Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Daniel Romer 374.

Notes:

Papers presented at a conference held at the Adolescent Risk Communication Institute of the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg Public Policy Center in June 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-458) and indexes.

ISBN:

0761928359

0761928367

OCLC:

51647506