Reducing Adolescent Risk

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 About the Editor About the Contributors