Table of Contents: Adolescent risk and vulnerability

Annotation

Other Authors:	Fischhoff, Baruch, 1946-, Nightingale, Elena O., Iannotta, Joah G., EBSCOhost.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington : National Academy Press, [2001]
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xi, 152 pages) : illustrations.
Subjects:	Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence -- United States -- Congresses. Teenagers -- United States -- Social conditions -- Congresses. Teenagers -- Health risk assessment -- United States -- Congresses. Youth -- Government policy -- United States -- Congresses. Social sciences. Electronic books. Electronic book.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: Adolescent risk and vulnerability: approaches to setting priorities to reduce their burden
2. Perceptions of risk and vulnerability / Baruch Fischhoff and Elena O. Nightingale
3. Vulnerability, risk, and protection / Susan G. Millstein and Bonnie L. Halpern-Felsher
4. Modeling the payoffs of interventions to reduce adolescent vulnerability / Robert William Blum, Clea McNeely, and James Nonnemaker
5. Adolescent vulnerability: measurement and priority setting / Martha R. Burt, Janine M. Zweig, and John Roman.