Overview
- Examines Problem Behavior Theory and research into adolescent and young adult behavioral health
- Provides a systematic psychosocial perspective to illuminate determinants, developmental course, and the consequence of engagement
- Explores traditional domains of problem, pro-social, and health behaviors
- Discusses personal and social protective and risk factors and how they account for variation in health-related behaviors
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development (ARAD)
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Topics featured in this book include:
- Alcohol use and problem drinking in adolescent health and development.
- Psychosocial research on marijuana use.
- Understanding early initiation of sexual intercourse in adolescence.
- Smoking behavior in adolescence and young adulthood.
- Developmental change in risky driving.
- Healthy eating and regular exercise in adolescent health and development
Problem Behavior Theory and Adolescent Health is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, clinicians, and related professionals as well as graduate students in developmental and health psychology, sociology, criminology, criminal justice, public health, and related disciplines.
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Keywords
- Adolescence and problem drinking
- Contraceptive use and adolescence
- Drug abuse and adolescent development
- Early initiation of sexual intercourse
- Healthy eating and regular exercise adolescents in China
- Healthy eating and regular exercise adolescents in the U.S.
- Marijuana use and problem drinking during adolescence
- Marijuana use during high school and college
- Personality and adolescent health behaviors
- Problem Behavior Theory and cigarette smoking
- Problem Behavior Theory and psychosocial development
- Problem Behavior Theory and sexual development
- Problem Behavior Theory, drinking, and risky driving
- Problem drinking among college students
- Problem drinking during emerging adulthood
- Protective factors, alcohol, and adolescent development
- Protective factors, marijuana, and adolescent development
- Risk factors, alcohol, and adolescent development
- Risk factors, marijuana, and adolescent development
- Smoking and college students
Table of contents (29 chapters)
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Health-Related Problem Behaviors: Drinking and Problem Drinking
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Health-Related Problem Behaviors: Marijuana Use
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Health-Related Problem Behaviors: Early Sexual Intercourse Experience
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Educated at the College of the City of New York and Yale University, where he received his B.A. degree in Psychology in 1946, Jessor received an M.A. from Columbia University in 1947 and a PhD in Clinical Psychology in 1951 from Ohio State University, where he was a student of Julian B. Rotter. He has been a consultant to various federal agencies and private foundations as well as the World Health Organization, Health and Welfare Canada, and UNICEF. He has served on several National Research Council panels and on the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development. He was an invited Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1995-96, and he received the Outstanding Achievement in Adolescent Medicine Award in 2005 from the Society for Adolescent Medicine. Jessor is, after 65 years, the longest-serving active faculty member at the University of Colorado. In May 2015, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, by the Regents of the University of Colorado.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Problem Behavior Theory and Adolescent Health
Book Subtitle: The Collected Works of Richard Jessor, Volume 2
Authors: Richard Jessor
Series Title: Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51349-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51348-5Published: 07 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84627-9Published: 21 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51349-2Published: 31 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2195-089X
Series E-ISSN: 2195-0903
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 627
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations
Topics: Developmental Psychology, Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice, Public Health