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Adolescents' Health - A Developmental Perspective (Paperback)
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Adolescents' Health - A Developmental Perspective (Paperback)
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This book is devoted to identifying the precursors of adolescents'
health problems and risk taking behaviors and the developmental
processes that accompany them. It presents data on lay conceptions
of health and illness, physical maturity, causes of mortality and
morbidity, and patterns of utilization of medical and psychosocial
health care services. Developmental changes in risk perception,
self-disclosure behavior, and in dealing with nudity are linked
with doctor-patient communication to illustrate the typical
obstacles health experts are faced with when trying to assess
diagnostic information in this age group. Developmental barriers
that hinder adolescents' compliance are highlighted and factors
accounting for their aversion to counseling are reviewed. This book
also presents findings on typical stressors occurring during
adolescence and their effect on health status as well as factors
mediating the effect of stress on health. Throughout, readers gain
valuable insight into gender differences, physical and
psychological symptoms, and help-seeking behaviors. Special
attention is directed to deficits in coping behavior, social
support, and network structure of distressed adolescents and the
current state of research relative to coping with chronic illness
in adolescence is reviewed. Implications of these findings for the
development of intervention strategies or for improving the health
care of chronically ill adolescents and particularly troubled
adolescents are detailed. This volume will appeal to clinical and
school psychologists, psychiatrists, physicians, counselors or
other healthcare professionals working with adolescents as well as
researchers in the field of adolescent health. It also serves as a
text in graduate level courses on adolescent health,
psychopathology, and developmental pediatrics.
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