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Child Trauma And HIV Risk
Behaviour In Women: A Multivariate Mediational Model
by Laura Whitmere
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Risk-Takers
by Martin Plant
Book Description
Gives a comprehensive view of youthful involvement with
drinking, smoking, illicit drug use and sexual activity, providing a
challenging assessment of health education for young people.
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Youth, Risk and Russian
Modernity
by Christopher Williams, Vladimir Chuprov, Julia Zubok
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Risk Factors For Youth Suicide
(Death Education, Aging and Health Care)
by Lucy Davidson
Book Description
Papers presented at the "National Conference on Risk Factors for
Youth Suicide", held at Bethesda in 1986. The authors catalogued,
analyzed and synthesized the literature on factors linked to youth
suicide.
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Youth, Education and Risk:
Facing the Future
by Peter Dwyer
Book Description
Youth, Education and Risk: Facing the Future is a provocative
and valuable insight into how the dramatic social and economic
changes of the last twenty years have affected the lives of Western
youth. The book reviews ten years of research, policy and practice
as related to the 15-25 age group and compares data from the UK,
Australia, the USA and Canada. Covering young people's attitudes
towards relationships and health, the authors provide a
comprehensive perspective on young people in Western society in the
1990s.
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Risky Behavior among Youths :
An Economic Analysis (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)
by Jonathan Gruber
Book Description
Every day young people engage in risky behaviors that affect not
only their immediate well-being but their long-term health and
safety. These well-honed essays apply diverse economic analyses to a
wide range of unsafe activities, including teen drinking and
driving, smoking, drug use, unprotected sex, and criminal activity.
Economic principles are further applied to mental health and
performance issues such as teenage depression, suicide, nutritional
disorders, and high school dropout rates. Together, the essays yield
notable findings: price and regulatory incentives are critical
determinants of high-risk behavior, suggesting that youths do apply
some sort of cost/benefit calculation when making decisions; the
macroeconomic environment in which those decisions are made matters
greatly; and youths who pursue high-risk behaviors are significantly
more likely to engage in similar behaviors as adults.
This important volume provides both a key data source for public
policy makers and a clear affirmation of the usefulness of economic
analysis to our understanding of risky behavior.
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Risks and Problem Behaviors in
Adolescence
by Richard Lerner
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High-Risk Sexual Behavior : Interventions with
Vulnerable Populations
by Evvie Becker, Elizabeth Rankin, Annette U. Rickel
Book Description
High-risk sexual behavior has been linked to social problems such as
substance abuse, domestic violence, homelessness, and deprivation. This
volume's unique multidisciplinary biopsychosocial approach combines
relevant medical information regarding disease states with the cultural,
social, and psychological facets of successful prevention programs.
Becker and Rankin outline specific interventions that address the needs
of particularly vulnerable populations: women, ethnic minorities, and
the gay community. Useful chapter summaries which review the pros and
cons of different approaches will aid both the student and the
practitioner.
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Dancing on Drugs: Risk, Health and Hedonism in the
British Club scene
by Fiona Measham, Judith Aldridge, Howard Parker
Book Description
The last decade has seen the transformation of recreational drug use
from a minority, almost subcultural activity, into a widespread and
increasingly normalized "leisure" activity. Each weekend millions of the
young and not-so-young fill the floors of night clubs, dance clubs and
raves. Most drink alcohol, most take stimulant drugs, many do both. What
are the gains and losses of such psychoactive nights out? Is it hedonism
versus health? Is it well calculated risk taking by a drugwise
generation or is it dangerous illegal excess with physical and
psychological costs?
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