A Student Guide to Health [5 volumes]: Understanding the Facts, Trends, and Challenges

by Yvette Malamud Ozer

Overview

This comprehensive, five-volume reference set is aligned with the National Health Education Standards, containing up-to-date, scientifically based information on a variety of health and wellness topics relevant to high school students.

A Student Guide to Health: Understanding the Facts, Trends, and Challenges provides straightforward, factual, and accessible information about a multitude of health issues. It is an essential reference set that provides high school students, teachers, and administrators with a comprehensive health and wellness education resource that aligns with National Health Education Standards and common health curriculum. This expansive five-volume set is ideal for students' research projects; highly useful as a resource for community college and public library patrons, librarians, teens, and parents; and is a suitable supplement to any health education curriculum.

Each chapter includes up-to-date, evidence-based information that provokes further examination and encourages critical thinking to evaluate the validity of information encountered about health and wellness topics. Each chapter provides an abundance of references and lists of resources for further information, including books, articles, websites, organizations, and hotlines. Special attention is paid to social trends that affect youth health and wellness, such as bullying, eating disorders, steroid abuse, sexting, and the peer pressure associated with drug use and abuse.

• Five expansive volumes covering such diverse topics as media, family, and peer influences on body image, sexual behavior, diseases and disorders, mental health and wellness, and relationships
• Contributions from psychologists, educators, and teen contributors
• "What People are Saying" sidebars disbursed throughout that provide opinions by young adults, as well as "Case Reports" and "Facts and Myths"
• Dozens of illustrations including those of human reproductive anatomy
• A glossary defining hundreds of terms relevant to health and wellness, such as pandemic, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and neurotransmitter

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313393051
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/07/2012
Pages:	1213
Product dimensions:	9.50(w) x 6.40(h) x 3.20(d)

About the Author

Yvette Malamud Ozer, MS, is a clinical psychology doctoral student at California School of Professional Psychology/Alliant International University, San Francisco.

Georganna Leavesley, PhD, is a registered nurse and a licensed clinical psychologist.

Alice C. Richer is a registered, licensed dietician and certified medical writer.

Nancy A. Piotrowski, PhD, is a core faculty member in the Department of Psychology in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Capella University.

Editorial Reviews

"The volumes are replete with real-life examples, and the wealth of information is presented in a compelling manner." - PsycCRITIQUES

"This five-volume health and wellness education reference presents practical information that supports the National Health Education Standards (NHES) for high school (grades 9 through 12). . . . The work is well done for young students as well as laypersons." - Choice

"This new set from Greenwood provides comprehensive health information for teens that conforms to the National Health Education Standards. . . . Presenting information from multiple perspectives encourages students to see the big picture. . . . Critical-thinking elements are incorporated throughout. . . . This very useful set offers an introduction to a wide variety of health-related issues." - Booklist

"This set is aligned with the National Health Education Standards for promoting and supporting health-enhancing behaviors for students in grades 9 through 12. . . . This material is intended to be of interest to teens and is full of practical advice and information on resources for that audience." - Library Journal

From the Publisher

This set is aligned with the National Health Education Standards for promoting and supporting health-enhancing behaviors for students in grades 9 through 12. Health Basics focuses on prevention, hygiene, body modification, and environmental health and provides overviews of diseases such as hepatitis, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer. Nutrition and Physical Fitness has many helpful tables and covers food, exercise, weight management, and eating disorders. Sexual Health provides a general overview of male and female anatomy, puberty, mental and emotional development, body modification, sexual and gender identity, breakups, abuse, and pregnancy. Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs covers over-the-counter medications, illegal drugs, substance abuse, dependency, social and legal implications of drug use, and intervention and treatment. Mental and Emotional Health looks at family and peer relationships and includes information on bullying, "sexting," coping with stress, and anger management. One chapter is dedicated to mental health symptoms, disorders, and treatment. Each chapter includes a list of references and a glossary, and each volume has its own index, allowing each slim volume to be used as a stand-alone work. Elements setting this collection apart are the critical thinking components, which include case studies, and sections called "What People Are Saying," which often use interview responses from teens on controversial subjects. VERDICT This material is intended to be of interest to teens and is full of practical advice and information on resources for that audience.—Susanne Caro, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Lib., Univ. of Montana, Missoula

Library Journal