Minority adolescents are at an increased risk for numerous health problems but are less likely to have a regular source of medical care than either adults or children. During this critical developmental period, adolescents establish behavior patterns that set the stage for adulthood, creating a unique window of opportunity for clinicians and health care professionals to intervene and promote health. This impressive collection guides the efforts to understand and develop innovative, effective, and culturally sensitive approaches for minority youth populations.
The book first lays out the complex matrix of developmental, biological, and sociocultural issues affecting minority youth. The next section delves into the specific health-compromising and health-promoting behaviors that need to be targeted, including drug abuse and violence, sexually transmitted diseases, physical activity, diet, female health issues, and chronic health risks. An innovative and culturally sensitive review of effective intervention approaches follows. The volume concludes with an examination of special problems of health care access and health policies confronting minority youth.
Given the depth and breadth of its coverage, Health-Promoting and Health Compromising Behaviors Among Minority Adolescents belongs on the shelves not only of health psychologists but of all clinical and counseling professionals who might treat minority adolescents.
Contributors
Foreword
—Andrew Baum and Margaret Chesney
Preface
—James R. Rodrigue, Dawn K. Wilson, and Wendell C. Taylor
Introduction
—Dawn K. Wilson, James R. Rodrigue, and Wendell C. Taylor
I. Conceptual Framework for Understanding Minority Adolescent Health
- Developmental and Biological Perspectives on Minority Adolescent Health
—Sheila H. Parfenoff and Roberta L. Paikoff - Psychological, Social, and Cultural Perspectives on Minority Health in Adolescence: A Life-Course Framework
—James S. Jackson and Sherrill L. Sellers
II. Health-Compromising and Health-Promoting Behaviors in Minority Adolescent Populations
- Preventing Drug Abuse and Violence
—Gilbert J. Botvin and Lawrence M. Scheier - Health Promotion in Minority Adolescents: Emphasis on Sexually Transmitted Diseases and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus
—James R. Rodrigue, Kenneth P. Tercyak, Jr., and Celia M. Lescano - Increasing Physical Activity Levels Among Youth: A Public Health Challenge
—Wendell C. Taylor, Bettina M. Beech, and Sharon S. Cummings - The Role of Diet in Minority Adolescent Health Promotion
—Dawn K. Wilson, Susan C. Nicholson, and Jenelle S. Krishnamoorthy - Minority Adolescent Female Health: Strategies for the Next Millennium
—Barbara J. Guthrie, Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, and Andrea G. Hunter - Health Behaviors in the Development of Adult Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes Among Minorities
—Helen P. Hazuda and Ana Monterrosa
III. Interventions for Minority Adolescent Populations
- Interpersonal Interventions for Minority Adolescents
—Ken Resnicow, Ronald L. Braithwaite, and JoAnne Kuo - Multisystemic Therapy and the Ethnic Minority Client: Culturally Responsive and Clinically Effective
—Michael J. Brondino, Scott W. Henggeler, Melisa D. Rowland, Susan G. Pickrel, Phillippe B. Cunningham, and Sonja K. Schoenwald - School-Based Interventions to Prevent Substance Use Among Inner-City Minority Adolescents
—Mary Ann Forgey, Steven Schinke, and Kristin Cole - Community-Based Interventions
—Betty R. Yung and W. Rodney Hammond
IV. Health Policy and Special Concerns for Minority Adolescent Populations
- Health Service Access and Utilization Among Adolescent Minorities
—Aida L. Giachello and Jose O. Arrom - Health Care and Health Policy for Adolescents
—Robert M. Kaplan and Lawrence Friedman
Conclusion
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Editors
Three aspects of [this book] set it apart from other volumes on adolescent health…(a) the level of detail used to describe prevention and intervention programs; (b) its description of health-enhancing, not just health-compromising behaviors; and (c) the unique focus on the health behavior of minority adolescents.
—Contemporary Psychology, 1998, Vol. 43, No. 3
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