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Adolescent risk behaviors why teens experiment and strategies to keep them safe /

Main Author: Wolfe, David A. 1951-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Crooks, Claire V.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.
Series:Current perspectives in psychology
Subjects:
Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence > Prevention.
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10169973
Table of 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.

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