Adolescent Health The Role of Individual Differences

List of Figures and Tables. Foreword by Dr C. Peterson. Preface. Chapter 1. General Introduction: Introduction, Definitions of Health, Conceptions of illness and health among adolescents, Adolescence: a period of health risk, Summary Chapter 2. Health Education: Introduction, Adolescent injury and disease, Health education strategies, Adolescent health services, Models of health behaviour, Summary Chapter 3. Stress and Coping: Introduction, The Nature of Stress, Stress during the adolescent years, Types of stressors, Causes and correlates of adolescent stress, Coping with stress, Summary Chapter 4. Body Image and Eating Behaviours: Introduction, Controlling ones weight, Self-perceptions of body image, Eating disorders, The treatment of eating disorders, Summary Chapter 5. Sex and AIDS: Introduction, Sexual development, Attitudes to sex, Sexual behaviours and condoms, Predicting condom use, Summary Chapter 6. Substance abuse: Alcohol, Cigarettes and Other Drugs: Introduction, Patterns of substance abuse, Syndrome of problem behaviour, Theoretical perspectives, Summary Chapter 7. Mental Health: Schizophrenia, Depression and Suicide: Introduction, Schizophrenia, Depression, Suicide, Summary Chapter 8. Lifestyle, Exercise and Diet: Introduction, The concept of lifestyle, Exercise and fitness, Diet and health, Attitudes to food and nutrition, Psychological predictors of a healthy lifestyle, Changing lifestyle, Summary Chapter 9. Concluding Comments: Introduction, Empowerment, Improving Health services for adolescents.

Biography

Patrick C. L. Heaven is Senior Lecturer in psychology at the University of Wollongong, Australia. His previous publications include Contemporary Adolescence: A Social Psychological Approach (1994); Adolescence: An Australian Perspective (1990, edited by Heaven and Callan) and Life Span Development (1992, edited).