Preface - Daniel Romer

1. Prospects for an Integrated Approach to Adolescent Risk Reduction

PART I. ADOLESCENTS AS DECISION MAKERS

Section A. Differing Views of Adolescent Decision Making

2. Changing Views on the Nature and Prevention of Adolescent Risk Taking - James Byrnes

3. Is Decision Making the Right Framework for Research on Adolescent Risk Taking? - Laurence Steinberg

4. The Two Faces of Adolescent Invulnerability - Daniel Lapsley

Section B. Affect, Risk Perception, and Behavior

5. Risk Perception: Construct Development, Links to Theory, Correlates, and Manifestations - Susan Millstein

6. Affect, Analysis, Adolescence, and Risk - Paul Slovic

7. Toward an Understanding of the Role of Perceived Risk in HIV Prevention Research - Martin Fishbein

8. Alcohol and Illicit Drugs: The Role of Risk Perceptions - Lloyd Johnston

9. Adolescents' Risk Perceptions and Behavioral Willingness: Implications for Intervention - Meg Gerrard, Frederick X. Gibbons, & Michelle L. Gano

Section C. Problem-Solving Approaches

10. A Problem Solving Approach to Preventing Early High-Risk Behaviors in Children and Preteens - Myrna Shure

11. Contemporary School-Based Prevention Approaches and the Perceived Risks & Benefits of Substance Use - Kenneth Griffin

12. Decision-Making Competence & Risk Behavior - Andrew Parker & Baruch Fischhoff

13. Time Perspective: A Potentially Important Construct for Decreasing Health Risk Behaviors Among Adolescents - Geoffrey T. Fong & Peter A. Hall

14. The Influence of School Atmosphere and Development on Adolescents' Perceptions of Risks and Prevention: Cynicism Versus Skepticism - Maria D. LaRusso & Robert L. Selman

PART II. COMMON PATHWAYS & INFLUENCES ON ADOLESCENT RISK BEHAVIOR

Section A. Multiple-Problem Youth

15. Preventing Multiple Problem Behaviors in Adolescence - Anthony Biglan & Christine Cody

16. Screening & Early Intervention for Antisocial Youth Within School Settings as a Strategy for Reducing Substance Use - Herbert Severson, Judy Andrews, & Hill M. Walker

17. Preventive Interventions for Externalizing Disorders in Adolescents - Ken C. Winters, Gerald August, & Willa Leitten

Section B. Personality and Other Dispositions

18. Genetic Basis of Substance Use and Dependence: Implications for Prevention in High-Risk Youth - Caryn Lerman, Freda Patterson, & Alexandra Shields

19. Health Risk Takers and Prevention - Lewis Donohew, Philip Palmgreen, Rick Zimmerman, Nancy Harrington, & Derek Lane

20. Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression: Implications for Adolescent Risk Behavior in General - Lauren B. Alloy, Lin Zhu, & Lyn Abramson

Section C. Peers and Parents

21. EMOSA Sexuality Models, Memes, and the Tipping Point: Policy & Program Implications - Joseph Rodgers

22. Sustaining and Broadening Intervention Effect: Social Norms, Core Values, and Parents - Bonita Stanton & James Burns

Section D. Media Interventions

23. Adolescent Risk Behavior Research and Media-Based Health Messages - Barbara Delaney

24. Using Beliefs About Positive and Negative Consequences as the Basis for Designing Message Interventions for Lowering Risky Behavior - Joseph Cappella, Marco Yzer, & Martin Fishbein

PART III. PERSPECTIVES FROM DIFFERENT RISK-RESEARCH TRADITIONS

Section A. Gambling

25. Adolescent Gambling: Risk Factors and Implications for Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment - Mark Griffiths

26. Understanding Youth Gambling Problems: A Conceptual Framework - Jeffrey Derevensky, Rina Gupta, Laurie Dickson, Karen Hardoon, & Anne-Elyse Deguire

27. A Perspective on Adolescent Gambling: Relationship to Other Risk Behaviors and Implications for Prevention Strategies - Marc Potenza

28. Why Pay Attention to Adolescent Gambling - Rachel Volberg

Section B. Sexual Behavior

29. Risk and Protective Factors Affecting Teen Pregnancy and the Effectiveness of Programs Designed to Address Them - Douglas Kirby

30. Healthy Sexual Development: Notes on Programs that Reduce the Risk of Early Sexual Initiation and Adolescent Pregnancy - Mignon Moore & Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

31. Adolescent Sex and the Rhetoric of Risk - J. Dennis Fortenberry

Section C. Suicide

32. Suicide Risk Among Adolescents - Madelyn Gould

33. Some Strategies to Prevent Youth Suicide - David Brent

34. Implications of Focusing on Black Youth Self-Destructive Behaviors Instead of Suicide When Designing Preventative Interventions - Sean Joe

Section D. Alcohol and Drugs

35. Alcohol, Tobacco, and Marijuana Use Among Youth: Same-Time and Lagged and Simultaneous-Change Associations in a Sample of 9- to 18-Year-Olds - Robert Hornik

PART IV. OVERARCHING APPROACHES & RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH

36. Positive Youth Is Necessary and Possible - Brian Flay

37. Youth Development Programs and Healthy Development: A Review and Next Steps - Jodie Roth & Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

38. A Contextual Perspective for Understanding and Preventing STD/HIV Among Adolescents - Ralph DiClemente, Gina Wingood, & Richard A. Crosby

39. Findings & Future Directions - Kathleen Jamieson & Daniel Romer

Appendix A

Appendix B

References

Index

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