Adolescence, Affect and Health; Author: Spruijt-Metz, Donna (University of Southern California, USA); Hardback; Book

Author: Spruijt-Metz, Donna (University of Southern California, USA)
Hardback; Book; Illustrations
240 pages
Published: August 1999
Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN: 0863775187

This book covers the entire empirical cycle in adolescent health research and education. It describes in depth the development and evaluation of a health education program designed to enhance everyday health-related behaviors in an adolescent population and offers comprehensive reviews of developmental theories of adolescence, ethical and theoretical issues in adolescent health education, and the major theories used in adolescent health research.The research presented here led to the development and testing of a new theory -- the Theory of Salient Meanings of Behavior -- which departs from the cognitive theories that have so far dominated adolescent health education and research, but which have often proved inadequate in describing and predicting adolescent health-related behaCovers the entire empirical cycle in adolescent health research and education. The book offers comprehensive reviews of developmental theories of adolescence, ethical and theoretical issues in health education, and the major theories used in adolescent health research.