Adolescent Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Theory, Research, and Intervention / Edition 1

by D. Lynn Rew

Overview

Adolescent Health is a survey textbook that includes an overview of existing theories and current research on interventions that address the social morbidities and mortalities of adolescents. Author Lynn Rew examines theories from a variety of professional disciplines that provide frameworks for understanding adolescent health behavior and health outcomes. Each theory is presented in terms of its essential elements, including its origin, a brief background of the theorist's philosophical paradigm, the purpose and usefulness of the theory, the meaning and scope of the theory, and, when available, empirical referents.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761929116
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	08/03/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lynn Rew is the Denton & Louise Cooley & Family Centennial Professor in Nursing at The University of Texas at Austin. Born and raised in rural Iowa, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu and earned both a Master of Science degree in Community Health Nursing and a Doctor of Education degree in Counselor Education from Northern Illinois University in De Kalb. In 1996 she completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Adolescent Health at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine where Michael D. Resnick, Ph.D., served as her supervising mentor. At The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing, Lynn serves as Graduate Advisor and is Director of the Southwest Partnership Center for Health Disparities Research. She is currently principal investigator on two R01 studies, funded by the National Institutes of Health, focusing on adolescent health-risk behaviors. She also serves as Editor of the Journal of Holistic Nursing. Lynn and her husband, dick (who prefers his name spelled with the lower case), have two grown children and have known each other since junior high school. Lynn and dick reside in Austin, Texas.

Table of Contents

Dedication
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
1. Adolescent Health and Health-Risk Behaviors
2. Theoretical Approaches to Adolescent Health and Health-Risk Behavior
3. Adolescent Development
4. Theories of Self: Identity and Self-Care
5. Stress and Coping
6. Risk, Vulnerability, and Problem Behavior
7. Conceptualizations of Resilience and Protection
8. Theories of Social Cognition
9. Health Belief and Health Promotion Models
10. Theories of Decision-Making and Behavior Change
11. Qualitative Approaches to Knowledge Development
References

Editorial Reviews

"The idea is very appealing for a number of reasons. Adolescent health is an area that fundamentally requires an interdisciplinary perspective in terms of both scholarly work and applied practice. This book promises to deliver in terms of that kind of breadth of perspective, and the author certainly has the qualifications to make real that promise of breadth as well as depth. . . . This would work well as a course text as well as for courses/seminars on adolescent health, adolescent behavior, and adolescent development. "

Michael D. Resnick

"Adolescent Health does an extraordinary job of helping these learners understand theory as a guide to and framer of their understanding... How refreshing to find a single volume that not only tells us where we've been, but illuminates the critical pathways we must travel for the foreseeable future of interdisciplinary adolescent health research."

Sir Reada Lot.org

"A book like this is definitely needed. . . . I have been searching for several years to find a core textbook I could use in my graduate course in adolescent health. This book, in combination with selected empirical readings that focus on specific health problems, would be very useful. . . . I could also see this book being a useful general resource for both academics and practitioners. "

Carolyn Tucker Halpern

"How I wish this book had been available when I was a doctoral student! To my knowledge, there are no other books that are focused on all the different relevant adolescent health theories. . . . This is a unique work, and one that has been desperately needed for a long time. "

Elizabeth Saewyc

"Adolescent Health does an extraordinary job of helping these learners understand theory as a guide to and framer of their understanding... How refreshing to find a single volume that not only tells us where we've been, but illuminates the critical pathways we must travel for the foreseeable future of interdisciplinary adolescent health research."

SirReadaLot.org

"Adolescent Health does an extraordinary job of helping these learners understand theory as a guide to and framer of their understanding... How refreshing to find a single volume that not only tells us where we've been, but illuminates the critical pathways we must travel for the foreseeable future of interdisciplinary adolescent health research."

Sir - ReadAlot.org