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Article: New Perspectives on Adolescent Risk Behaviour.(Review)
- Article from:
- New Zealand Journal of Psychology
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
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New Perspectives on Adolescent Risk Behaviour Richard Jessor (Ed.) 1998 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 564 pp. ISBN 0-521-58607-0 Australian R.R.P. $39.95
Why do they do it? As adults we feel like throwing up our hands in despair at the way in which vulnerable adolescents insist on pumping themselves full of alcohol and other toxic substances, exposing themselves to nasty viruses, and taking horrific risks on the road. Somewhere, deep within the experience of adolescence it lies a volatile mixture of frustration, despair and intense longing for new and extreme experiences that leads to a variety of risk behaviours. But this edited volume of 15 chapters on ...