Handbook of Adolescent Health Psychology

Abstract

Context and perspectives in adolescent health psychology.- A biopsychosocial perspective on adolescent health and disease.- Issues of diversity in adolescent health psychology: exploring sociocultural influences on adolescent health.- Socioeconomic influences on health and health behavior in adolescents.- Public health approaches to adolescent health beyond disease and illness.- Epidemiology of adolescent health.- Disease prevention in adolescence.- Determinants of health-related behaviors in adolescence.- Psychosocial stress, emotion regulation, and resilience in adolescents.- Mental literacy, mental health, and adolescents.- Advances in measurements and utilization of health-related quality of life instruments.- The Effects of physical activity on the physical and psychological health of adolescents.- Adolescent sexual assault: prevalence, risk associates, outcomes, and intervention.- Intimate partner violence in adolescent romantic relationships.- Continuity of behavior and parenting from childhood through adolescence.- School performance.- Brain development and health implications in adolescents.- Puberty: its role in adolescent maturation.- Adolescent sexuality and sexual behavior.- Intervention effectiveness research in adolescent health psychology: Methodological issues and strategies.- Training issues in adolescent health.- Reforming the behavioral health delivery system for adolescents: why is it needed and what is psychology's role?.- Confidentiality and care of the adolescent patient.- Treatment adherence in adolescents.- Smoking in adolescents.- Adolescent substance abuse.- Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adolescence.- Social and biological changes during adolescence that precipitate the onset of antisocial behavior.- Personality disorders in adolescence.- Deliberate self-harm in adolescents.- Eating disorders in adolescents.- Anxiety in adolescents.- Depression and suicide-related behavior in adolescence.- Adolescents with intellectual disabilities.- Pregnancy in adolescents.- Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and the developing adolescent: influences of and strategies to reduce STI acquisition.- HIV among adolescents in the United States.- Obesity in adolescents.- Cardiovascular complaints in adolescence: clinical considerations.- Asthma in adolescents.- Endocrine disorders in adolescents.- Musculoskeletal injuries in adolescents: a sports medicine model.- Headaches in adolescents.- Chronic pain in adolescents: physiological and psychological bases for pain.