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Adolescents and Risk: Making Sense of Adolescent Psychology
- ISBN-10:
- 0313336873
- ISBN-13:
- 9780313336874
- Pub. Date:
- 03/30/2008
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN-10:
- 0313336873
- ISBN-13:
- 9780313336874
- Pub. Date:
- 03/30/2008
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Academic
Adolescents and Risk: Making Sense of Adolescent Psychology
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Overview
Each chapter is devoted to a specific risk that many adolescents take throughout their teenage years. These include: drug abuse, gambling, sex, violence, and suicide. Johnson and Malow-Iroff discuss the mental health problems that lead to dangerous activities. Each topic explains the causes that lead to these risky behaviors, ways to prevent them, and advice that will be useful to parents and educators in addressing these issues.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780313336874 |
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Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
Publication date: | 03/30/2008 |
Series: | Making Sense of Psychology |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 160 |
Product dimensions: | 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.44(d) |
About the Author
MICHELINE S. MALOW-IROFF is Assistant Professor in the Special Education Department at Manhattanville College located in Westchester, New York. Prior to joining the faculty at Manhattanville College, Malow-Iroff was Assistant Professor at Queens College in the Elementary and Early Childhood Education Department. In addition, Malow-Iroff is a certified school psychologist and worked in a preschool for children with special needs for eight years providing therapy and support to children, teachers, and parents.
Table of Contents
Series ForewordChapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Adolescent Drug Use
Chapter Three: Adolescent Gambling
Chapter Four: Adolescent Sex
Chapter Five: Adolescent Violence
Chapter Six: Adolescent Suicide
Chapter Seven: Beyond Risk: Adolescent Mental Disorders
Chapter Eight: Possible Causes of Adolescent Risk Taking
Chapter Nine: Preventing Adolescent Risk Taking
Chapter Ten: Conclusion
Index
What People are Saying About This
Lewis A. Opler
"Adolescents and Risk: Making Sense of Adolescent Psychology is a valuable source of information for policy makers, researchers, and clinicians, as well as a practical survival guide for parents/teachers/adolescents traversing the inevitable stresses and strains that come with adolescence."
Lewis A. Opler, MD, PhD., Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
"As I read Adolescents and Risk: Making Sense of Adolescent Psychology I found myself thinking about it from the perspective of a parent, clinical psychologist and researcher. This book can be useful and stimulating to all three groups because of what and how it presents theory and research findings about adolescent risk-taking. Most important, it presents information from studies that are phenomenological and illustrate how intentions and will are experienced. I think this is important because too often we read about risk-taking in the context of executive processes but not the experience of young decision makers. As to its method of presentation, it emphasizes developmental processes that can be verbally engaged and stimulated according to effective developmentally-sensitive interventions. Even my seventeen year old daughter found it stimulating."
Lawrence S. Gaines
"As I read Adolescents and Risk: Making Sense of Adolescent Psychology I found myself thinking about it from the perspective of a parent, clinical psychologist and researcher. This book can be useful and stimulating to all three groups because of what and how it presents theory and research findings about adolescent risk-taking. Most important, it presents information from studies that are phenomenological and illustrate how intentions and will are experienced. I think this is important because too often we read about risk-taking in the context of executive processes but not the experience of young decision makers. As to its method of presentation, it emphasizes developmental processes that can be verbally engaged and stimulated according to effective developmentally-sensitive interventions. Even my seventeen year old daughter found it stimulating."
Lawrence S. Gaines, Ph.D., Dept. of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University
"Adolescents and Risk: Making Sense of Adolescent Psychology is a valuable source of information for policy makers, researchers, and clinicians, as well as a practical survival guide for parents/teachers/adolescents traversing the inevitable stresses and strains that come with adolescence."
"This important and well-written new book tackles a wide range of risk behaviors among adolescents in an engaging, thorough, and reasoned manner. The book is extremely well organized into types of risk behaviors and covers various theories of adolescent risk with clarity and a critical eye. The inclusion of gambling, often ignored in discussions of problem addictive behavior, is one of the many notable aspects of this book and represents a newly emerging problem for teens. The organization of the book allows the reader to absorb detailed information about each type of risk-taking, while making the necessary connection among the different behaviors. Drs. Johnson and Malow-Iroff succinctly illustrate programs that are effective, as well as those that have not been demonstrated to reduce adolescent risk behaviors. This valuable guide should be mandatory reading."
Steven Belenko
"This important and well-written new book tackles a wide range of risk behaviors among adolescents in an engaging, thorough, and reasoned manner. The book is extremely well organized into types of risk behaviors and covers various theories of adolescent risk with clarity and a critical eye. The inclusion of gambling, often ignored in discussions of problem addictive behavior, is one of the many notable aspects of this book and represents a newly emerging problem for teens. The organization of the book allows the reader to absorb detailed information about each type of risk-taking, while making the necessary connection among the different behaviors. Drs. Johnson and Malow-Iroff succinctly illustrate programs that are effective, as well as those that have not been demonstrated to reduce adolescent risk behaviors. This valuable guide should be mandatory reading."
Steven Belenko, Ph.D., Professor, Temple University