Adolescent Risk Taking

By Gavin Bell

Book Overview

Do similarities exist between voluntary risk taking, such as mountain climbing, and criminal behavior? Can an exploration of adolescent risk-taking behaviors shed light on adolescent problem behaviors, such as unprotected sex? Are there positive aspects to adolescent risk taking? Exploring these and other issues, this team of contributors from the fields of psychology, sociology, adolescent medicine, and public policy uses risk taking as a framework to study many of the dangerous, and often life-threatening, behaviors of youth. Beginning with a review of the past research on adolescent problem behaviors that have a risk-taking component, the book covers such topics as theories of risky choice, the use of the rational-choice theory in predicting heightened risk taking during youth, sociobiological factors in risk taking, and intervention programs for socially- and self-destructive behaviors. Students and professionals of family studies, education, psychology, and nursing will find Adolescent Risk Taking essential reading. "This volume brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars who examine adolescent risk taking from a multiple of perspectives with direct implications for promoting healthy adolescent lifestyles. This book will be a valuable resource for a broad spectrum of individuals concerned with the health of adolescents, including behavioral and medical researchers, psychological and sociological theorists, clinicians, as well as policy analysts." --Ralph J. DiClemente, Ph.D., University of Alabama

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803950659
• ISBN13: 9780803950658
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"