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Health Risks and Developmental Transitions during Adolescence

Health Risks and Developmental Transitions during Adolescence

Health Risks and Developmental Transitions during Adolescence

John Schulenberg, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Jennifer L. Maggs, University of Arizona
Klaus Hurrelmann, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
Laurie Chassin
October 1999
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    Health and well-being during adolescence depends largely on the fit between the young person's developmental needs and desires and opportunities provided by the changing context. In Health Risks and Developmental Transitions, prominent researchers in the adolescent field examine how various developmental transitions associated with the passage from childhood to adulthood provide risks and opportunities for adolescents' mental and physical health. Given the importance of adolescence in determining the course of health and well-being across the life span, efforts to ease the various transitions into and out of adolescence will yield long-term health benefits. By focusing on the link between health risks, developmental transitions, individual and contextual conditions and planned interventions that moderate the link, this interdisciplinary book provides the foundation for a unifying framework for research and application in health and human development.

    • It focuses on developmental changes during adolescence and young adulthood (e.g., puberty, school transitions, changes in relationships with parents and friends, childbearing and parenthood)
    • It focuses on health compromising behaviors (e.g., drug use) as well as health enhancing behaviors (e.g., pro-social behavior) during adolescence and young adulthood
    • Contributors are among the most widely known and respected scholars in the adolescent field

    Product details

    October 1999
    Paperback
    9780521664370
    602 pages
    230 × 152 × 30 mm
    0.7kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Negotiating developmental transitions during adolescence and young adulthood: health risks and opportunities John Schulenberg, Jennifer L. Maggs, Klaus Hurrelmann
    • Part I. Sociocultural, Physical and Cognitive Foundations of Adolescent Transitions:
    • 2. Cultural, historical and subcultural contexts of adolescence: implications for health and development Lisa J. Crockett
    • 3. Social change and adolescent well-being: healthy country, healthy teens Peter Noack and Barbel Kracke
    • 4. Self-reported maturational timing and adaptation in adolescence Rainer K. Silbereisen and Barbel Kracke
    • 5. Adolescents' decisions about risks: a cognitive perspective Ruth Beyth-Marom and Baruch Fischhoff
    • Part II. Affiliation Transitions and Health:
    • 6. The family as health risk and opportunity: a focus on divorce and working families Nancy L. Galambos and Marion F. Ehrenberg
    • 7. Transformations in peer relationships at adolescence: implications for health-related behavior B. Bradford Brown, M. Margaret Dolcini and Amy Leventhal
    • 8. Sexuality and developmental transitions during adolescence Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Roberta Paikoff
    • 9. Child bearing during adolescence: mental health risks and opportunities Cleopatra Howard Caldwell and Toni C. Antonucci
    • 10. Marriage, divorce, and parenthood during the transition to young adulthood: impacts on drug use and abuse Jerald G. Bachman, Katherine N. Wadsworth, Patrick M. O'Malley, John Schulenberg and Lloyd D. Johnston
    • Part III. Achievement Transitions and Health:
    • 11. The association of school transitions in early adolescence with developmental trajectories through High School Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Sarah E. Lord, Robert W. Roeser, Bonnie L. Barber and Debra M. Hernandez Jozefowicz
    • 12. Transitions into part-time work: health risks and opportunities Michael D. Finch, Jeylan T. Mortimer and Seongryeol Ryu
    • 13. Alcohol and binge drinking as goal-directed action during the transition to post-secondary education Jennifer L. Maggs
    • 14. Health risks and deviance in the transition from school to work Eduard Matt, Lydia Seus and Karl F. Schumann
    • Part IV. Identity Transitions and Health:
    • 15. Self definition and mental health during adolescence and young adulthood Jarik-Erik Nurmi
    • 16. Ethnic and racial identity development and mental health Jean S. Phinney and Eric L. Kohatsu
    • 17. Religion and adolescent health compromising behavior John M. Wallace Jr. and David R. Williams
    • Part V. Intervention: Altering Transition-Health Risk Connections:
    • 18. Promoting mental health during the transition into adolescence Anne C. Petersen, Nancy Leffert, Barbara Graham, Jan Alwin and Shuai Ding
    • 19. Preventing health compromising behaviors among youth and promoting their positive development: a developmental-contextual perspective Richard M. Lerner, Charles W. Ostrum and Melissa A. Freel
    • 20. Developmental transitions during adolescence: health promotion implications Jennifer L. Maggs, John Schulenberg and Klaus Hurrelmann.
      Contributors
    • Jan Alwin, Toni C. Antonucci, Jerald G. Bachman, Bonnie L. Barber, Ruth Beyth-Marom, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, B. Bradford Brown, Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, Lisa J. Crockett, Shuai Ding, M. Margaret Dolcini, Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Marion F. Ehrenberg, Michael D. Finch, Baruch Fischhoff, Melissa A. Freel, Nancy L. Galambos, Barbara Graham, Klaus Hurrelmann, Lloyd D. Johnston, Debra M. Hernandez Jozefowicz, Eric L. Kohatsu, Barbel Kracke, Nancy Leffert, Richard M. Lerner, Amy Leventhal, Sarah E. Lord, Jennifer L. Maggs, Eduard Matt, Jeylan T. Mortimer, Peter Noack, Jarik-Erik Nurmi, Patrick M. O'Malley, Charles W. Ostrum, Roberta Paikoff, Anne C. Petersen, Jean S. Phinney, Robert W. Roeser, Seongryeol Ryu, John Schulenberg, Karl F. Schumann, Lydia Seus, Rainer K. Silbereisen, Katherine N. Wadsworth, John M. Wallace Jr., David R. Williams

    • Editors
    • John Schulenberg , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    • Jennifer L. Maggs , University of Arizona
    • Klaus Hurrelmann , Universität Bielefeld, Germany
    • Laurie Chassin