Creating Health Behavior Change: How to Develop Community-Wide Programs for Youth / Edition 1

by Cheryl L. Perry

Overview

The purpose of this book is to provide a process for the development of effective community-wide health behaviour programmes for children and adolescents. Significant behaviour change among young people across a variety of behaviors and community-based research studies has been achieved through programmes that have been created on this ten-step process.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761912279
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/10/1999
Series:	Developmental Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry , #43
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.35(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction
Preparing for Program Development
Determining the Program Components
Creating the Health Behavior Program
Implementing and Maintaining a Health Behavior Program

Editorial Reviews

"I have no doubt that this book will be extremely useful to folk involved in programmes that aim to improve health outcomes of children and adolescents. It's brevity, among other factors, ensures that most people who buy, borrow or steal the book will actually fulfil an intention of reading it cover-to-cover!"

Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health - Alan J. Fisher

"I have no doubt that this book will be extremely useful to folk involved in programmes that aim to improve health outcomes of children and adolescents. It's brevity, among other factors, ensures that most people who buy, borrow or steal the book will actually fulfil an intention of reading it cover-to-cover! "— Alan J. Fisher

Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health