Abstract
Promoting Adolescent Health: A Dialog on Research and Practice , edited by Thomas J. Coates, Anne C. Petersen, and Cheryl Perry (conference, Baltimore, November 1980), 483 pp, with illus, $39.50, New York, Academic Press Inc, 1982. Preventing Adolescent Alienation is a compendium of the proceedings of a 1981 conference on Prevention of Adolescent Behavioral Problems. Distinguished contributors include Pulitzer prize winner, Robert Coles from Harvard; former head of the US Children's Bureau, Edward Zigler of Yale, and others. The topics addressed deal with adolescent alienation and consider prevention of related problems in areas such as sex, school, delinquency, suicide, chemical and substance abuse, and the development of values. While the book is about problem prevention and is addressed to the helping professions, it is written at a level that could be understood by, and perhaps would be more relevant for, parents than for the professionals themselves. For example, it discusses stages
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