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The School Practitioner’s Concise Companion to Health and Well Being

Cynthia Franklin, Mary Beth Harris, and Paula Allen-Meares

Abstract

Here, readers will find an overview of adolescent health issues and step-by-step prevention and intervention guidance. This Concise Companion covers major health issues that affect students' well being — from substance abuse to STDs to obesity — and presents strategies to improve student health by addressing risky behaviors. Each chapter is filled with charts, checklists and cases, organized around What We Know, What We Can Do, Tools and Practice Examples, and Key Points to Remember.

Keywords: health, well being, adolescent health issues, STDs, obesity, student health, risky behaviors

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2008 Print ISBN-13: 9780195370591
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2010 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195370591.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Cynthia Franklin, editor
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Mary Beth Harris, editor

Paula Allen-Meares, editor

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