Handbook of Adolescent Health Psychology
Adolescence is a pivotal period of development with respect to health and illness. It is during adolescence that many positive health behaviors are consolidated and important health risk behaviors are first evident; thus, adolescence is a logical time period for primary prevention. In addition, the...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Context and perspectives in adolescent health psychology
- A biopsychosocial perspective on adolescent health and disease
- Issues of diversity in adolescent health psychology: exploring sociocultural influences on adolescent health
- Socioeconomic influences on health and health behavior in adolescents
- Public health approaches to adolescent health beyond disease and illness
- Epidemiology of adolescent health
- Disease prevention in adolescence
- Determinants of health-related behaviors in adolescence
- Psychosocial stress, emotion regulation, and resilience in adolescents
- Mental literacy, mental health, and adolescents
- Advances in measurements and utilization of health-related quality of life instruments
- The Effects of physical activity on the physical and psychological health of adolescents
- Adolescent sexual assault: prevalence, risk associates, outcomes, and intervention
- Intimate partner violence in adolescent romantic relationships
- Continuity of behavior and parenting from childhood through adolescence
- School performance
- Brain development and health implications in adolescents
- Puberty: its role in adolescent maturation
- Adolescent sexuality and sexual behavior
- Intervention effectiveness research in adolescent health psychology: Methodological issues and strategies
- Training issues in adolescent health
- Reforming the behavioral health delivery system for adolescents: why is it needed and what is psychology's role?
- Confidentiality and care of the adolescent patient
- Treatment adherence in adolescents
- Smoking in adolescents
- Adolescent substance abuse
- Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adolescence
- Social and biological changes during adolescence that precipitate the onset of antisocial behavior
- Personality disorders in adolescence
- Deliberate self-harm in adolescents
- Eating disorders in adolescents
- Anxiety in adolescents
- Depression and suicide-related behavior in adolescence
- Adolescents with intellectual disabilities
- Pregnancy in adolescents
- Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and the developing adolescent: influences of and strategies to reduce STI acquisition
- HIV among adolescents in the United States
- Obesity in adolescents
- Cardiovascular complaints in adolescence: clinical considerations
- Asthma in adolescents
- Endocrine disorders in adolescents
- Musculoskeletal injuries in adolescents: a sports medicine model
- Headaches in adolescents
- Chronic pain in adolescents: physiological and psychological bases for pain.