Work group III: identifying effective strategies and interventions for improving adolescent health at the individual level

Focusing on the individual, rather than family or community, Work Group III viewed the overarching goal of effective strategies as enabling adolescents to advocate for themselves and, through the promotion of positive youth development, supporting them in reaching their full potential. To achieve th...

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Published in:Journal of adolescent health 2002-12, Vol.31 (6), p.226-229
Main Authors: Farrow, James H, Saewyc, Elizabeth
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescent Health Services
Benchmarking
Biological and medical sciences
Female
Group Processes
Guidelines as Topic
Health
Health Promotion
Health Status Indicators
Humans
Individuals
Interventions
Male
Medical sciences
Mental health
Prevention. Health policy. Planification
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
United States - epidemiology
USA
Young people
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Summary:Focusing on the individual, rather than family or community, Work Group III viewed the overarching goal of effective strategies as enabling adolescents to advocate for themselves and, through the promotion of positive youth development, supporting them in reaching their full potential. To achieve this goal, recommends new directions in research, practice and services, dissemination of knowledge about adolescent health and development, and policy. (Quotes from original text)
ISSN:1054-139X
1879-1972
DOI:10.1016/S1054-139X(02)00505-0