Handbook of Adolescent Health Risk Behavior (Hardcover, 1996 ed.)

Adolescence is a developmental period of accelerating physical, psychological, social cultural, and cognitive development, often characterized by confronting and surmounting a myriad of challenges and establishing a sense of self-identity and autonomy. It is also, unfortunately, a period fraught with many threats to the health and well-being of adoles cents and with substantial consequent impairment and disability. Many of the adverse health consequences experienced by adolescents are, to a large extent, the result of their risk behaviors. Many adolescents today, and perhaps an increasing number in the future, are at risk for death, disease, and other adverse health outcomes that are not primarily biomedical in origin. In general, there has been a marked change in the causes of morbidity and mortality among adolescents. Previously, infectious diseases accounted for a dispro portionate share of adolescent morbidity and mortality. At present, however, the over whelming toll of adolescent morbidity and mortality is the result of lifestyle practices."

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Issues in Clinical Child Psychology
Release date:	1996
First published:	1996
Editors:	Ralph J. DiClemente • William B. Hansen • Lynn E. Ponton
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	440
Edition:	1996 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-306-45147-8
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Promotions
LSN:	0-306-45147-6
Barcode:	9780306451478

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