1st Edition

Health Issues and Adolescents Growing Up, Speaking Out

By Leo Hendry, Janet Shucksmith Copyright 1998
174 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

Young people do not on the whole speak for themselves: they are spoken for by adults. Most research and policy agendas relating to young people are dominated by adult concerns about young people's health - rarely are the issues looked at from young people's perspective. This gap in our knowledge may be a critical factor in explaining some of the problems that health educators face in getting young... Read more
Chapter 1 Young people's perceptions of their own health needs; Chapter 2 ‘Giving a voice to children’; Chapter 3 ‘You look in all these magazines and you see all these supermodels …’; Chapter 4 ‘Down the Yoker’; Chapter 5 ‘I don't listen to everything she says …’; Chapter 6 ‘I sort of get pushed into things’; Chapter 7 ‘It's a balance’; Chapter 8 Conclusions;

Biography

Janet Shucksmith is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Aberdeen.,
Leo Hendry is Professor of Education, University of Aberdeen and Professor of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. Their previous publications include Young People's Leisure and Lifestyles (1993).