Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents

Part I. The Foundation

1. Introduction: What Is Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents?
Maya Rom Korin

2. Theory and Fundamentals of Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents
Maya Rom Korin

Part II. Socioecological Approach to Child and Adolescent Health

3. Poverty and Child Health
Renée Wilson-Simmons

4. Impact of Family Structure, Functioning, Culture, and Family-Based Interventions on Children’s Health
Karol L. Kumpfer, Cátia Magalhães, Sheetal A. Kanse

Part III. Children and Adolescent Psychological Wellness

5. Childhood Stress and Resilience
Andrew J. Barnes

6. Child Mental Health: Recent Developments with Respect to Risk, Resilience, and Interventions
Eliot Goldman, Joan Stamler, Kimberly Kleinman, Sarah Kerner, Owen Lewis

7. Youth Suicide
Adam G. Horwitz, Kiel J. Opperman, Amanda Burnside, Neera Ghaziuddin, Cheryl A. King

8. Health Concerns Regarding Children and Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Alexandria B. Fladhammer, Adrian R. Lyde, Adena B. Meyers, Jeffrey K. Clark, Steven Landau

Part IV. Social and Behavioral Wellness in Children and Adolecents

9. Preventing Risky Sexual Behavior in Adolescents
Eric R. Walsh-Buhi, Sarah B. Maness, Helen Mahony

10. Early Gender Development in Children and Links with Mental and Physical Health
May Ling D. Halim, Danielle Bryant, Kenneth J. Zucker

11. Parameters of Preventing Substance Misuse in Adolescents
Steve Sussman, Yue Liao, Jennifer Tsai, Diana Fishbein

12. Violence Affecting Youth: Pervasive and Preventable

Larry Cohen, Rachel Davis, Anna Realini

Part V. Dietary Health in Children and Adolescents

13. Pediatric and Adolescent Obesity
Stephenie Wallace, Bonnie A. Spear

14. Preventing Eating Disorders in Adolescents
Maribel Plasencia, Salomé A. Wilfred, Carolyn Black Becker

15. Partnering with Adolescents, Parents, Researchers, and Family Medicine Clinics to Address Adolescent Weight and Weight-Related Behaviors
Jerica M. Berge, Katharine Didericksen, Michaela Bucchianeri, Shailendra Prasad, Dianne Neumark-Sztainer

Part VI. Children and Adolescents in the Health Care System

16. Wellness Promotion in Children with Chronic Physical Illness
Katharine Thomson, Simona Bujoreanu

17. Confidentiality in Adolescent Health Care
Carol A. Ford, Abigail English, Nadia Dowshen, Charles G. Rogers

18. Wellbeing of Children in the Foster Care System
Lindsey M. Weiler, Edward F. Garrido, Heather N. Taussig

Avainsanat: Medicine & Public Health, Maternal and Child Health, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Pediatrics, Child and School Psychology, Social Work