Understanding Adolescent Health Behaviour: A Decision Making Perspective - Softcover

Umeh, Kanayo

 
9780521698023: Understanding Adolescent Health Behaviour: A Decision Making Perspective
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521698022 ISBN 13: 9780521698023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Smoking, drinking, unhealthy eating: how can we explain these actions in teenagers? Do teenagers stop to consider potential hazards or is their decision making frantic and impulsive, with little rational thought? In this intriguing book, Kanayo Umeh debunks conventional explanations of teenage behaviour (peer pressure, self-esteem issues, parent-child conflicts) and offers a fresh perspective based on the premise that teenagers, like adults, retain the power of choice. He shows that adolescents sometimes readily commit to a course of action despite being sceptical about its benefits, and reveals how decision strategies that appear ill-considered to adults are regarded as smart by adolescents, and with convincing justifications. Contrary to stereotypes, the teenager emerges as a curious individual: a multifaceted decision maker whose actions may not be quite as mindless as popular myth suggests.

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About the Author

Kanayo Umeh is a Chartered Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at Liverpool John Moores University.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521698022
ISBN 13 
9780521698023
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
320

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