Adolescents At Risk: Medical and Social Perspectives

by David E. Rogers

Overview

This text seeks to examine the factors that cause teenage violence, risky sexual behaviour (including risk of AIDS), and alcohol and drug abuse. It also addresses the guidelines that should be followed by those who seek to reduce societal costs resulting from the disfunctional behaviour of young people unable to make the transition from adolescence to young adulthood without special assistance and support.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429715297
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/18/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

David E. Rogers

Table of Contents

1 Overview, 2 Etiologies of Adolescents at Risk, 3 Risk Behavior in Adolescence: A Psychosocial Framework for Understanding and Action, 4 Adolescent Sexuality: Negative Outcomes of a Normative Behavior, 5 Alcohol and Other Drug Use and Abuse in Adolescents, 6 AIDS and Adolescence: A Challenge to Both Treatment and Prevention, 7 Not Fear, Nor Quarantine, But Science: Preparation for a Decade of Research to Advance Knowledge About and Control of Violence in Youths, 8 Providing Primary Care to the Adolescent, 9 Adolescents at Risk: A Summary of Work in the Field-Programs and Policies, 10 Adolescents at Risk: New Directions, Summary