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

Wolfe, David A. (David Allen) 1951- (Author). Jaffe, Peter G. (Added Author). Crooks, Claire V. (Added Author).

Summary: Annotation This book focuses on the crucial role that relationships play in the lives of teenagers. The authors particularly examine the ways that healthy relationships can help teens avoid such common risk behaviors as substance abuse, dating violence, sexual assault, and unsafe sexual practices. Addressing the current lack of effective prevention programs for teens, they present new strategies for encouraging healthy choices. The book first traces differences between the "rules of relating" for boys and girls and discusses typical and atypical patterns of experimentation in teens. The authors identify the common link among risk behaviors: the relationship connection. In the second part of the book, they examine the principles of successful programs used by schools and communities to cultivate healthy adolescent development. An illuminating conclusion describes the key ingredients for engaging adolescents, their parents, teachers, and communities in the effort to promote healthy, nonviolent relationships among teens

Record details

ISBN: 9780300127447 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0300127448 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0300110804 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780300110807
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (xvi, 276 p.) : ill.
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:apr.13 Multi-User. CatBulkString:apr.11.13
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-266) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.