Adolescence and Health - Couverture souple

Adolescence and Health is the first comprehensivetext to consider all aspects of young people s health in thecontext of their lifestyles and recent major social changes,considering questions such as:

• Is adolescent health getting worse?
• Do adolescents need to take risks to grow and develop?
• What is a healthy lifestyle for a young person?

Adolescence and Health begins by examining topicssuch as sexuality, eating disorders, and the use or abuse ofsubstances, and then moves on to wider discussions including thebest way to promote health or provide clinical services to a groupwho are neither fully adult nor children.

Following the surge in health initiatives to focus on youngpeople in the last decade, this book provides thought provokingcontent and a range of teaching and learning aids, to form the mostup–to–date textbook for trainee health professionals and othersworking with adolescents.

′As Minister for Children in Wales, I am delighted to commendthis topical and significant book.′ – Jane Hutt, Welsh AssemblyGovernment.

Professor Leo B. Hendry is a Fellow of the BritishPsychological Society, Emeritus Professor, University of Aberdeen,and Research Professor in Psychology at the Centre for LifespanResearch, University of Glamorgan, Wales.

Professor Marion Kloep is Professor of Psychology at theCentre for Lifespan Research, University of Glamorgan, Wales.

All three have published numerous books and research papers inthe field of adolescence.