1st Edition

Risks and Problem Behaviors in Adolescence

Edited By Richard M. Lerner, Christine M. Ohannessian Copyright 1999
364 Pages
by Routledge

364 Pages
by Routledge

The articles in this volume illustrate how development is propelled by the bidirectional relations that occur between the person and all levels of the context. The authors argue that adolescent life is embedded in a complicated developmental system involving multiple features of the individual (e.g., biology, emotions, personality, and cognition) and the multiple levels of his or her social... Read more
Introduction, Conceptualizing Risk, Internalizing Problems, Problems of Sexual Behavior, Problems of Substance Use/Abuse, Delinquency and School Drop-Out

Biography

Lerner, Richard M.; Ohannessian, Christine M.