Synopsis
<b><p>Reducing Adolescent Risk: Toward an Integrated Approach</p></b><p> 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.</p><p> </p><p>Primarily intended for graduate students, scholars, and researchers in psychology, sociology, social work, and public health, <b>Reducing Adolescent Risk</b> is also an extraordinary resource for policy makers in government organizations and foundations.</p>
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À propos de l'auteur
Daniel Romer received a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1974. He is currently Research Director at the Institute for Adolescent Risk Communication at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania.
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