Adolescents and risk : behaviors, functions, and protective factors / Silvia Bonino, Elena Cattelino, Silvia Ciairano ; foreword by Richard Jessor ; [translator, Lindsay McDonald]
1. Risk behavior in adolescence -- 2. The study -- 3. Psychoactive substance use -- 4. Risk-taking behavior and risky driving -- 5. Antisocial behavior -- 6. Sexual behavior, contraception, and AIDS -- 7. Disturbed eating -- 8. Prevention : what can we do?
Summary
The volume provides a substantial contribution to the understanding of adolescent risk behavior, informative and useful for both scientists and practitioners. The chapters deal with each of the key risk behaviors that are of concern at this developmental stage: tobacco smoking, alcohol use, marijuana and other drugs use, precocious and unprotected sexual behavior, eating disorders, risky behavior, risky driving, deviant and antisocial behavior. The book combines theoretical analysis and the findings of a wide research project, where the multiple contexts in the ecology of daily adolescent life
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-371)
