Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents

This timely volume surveys the broad spectrum of interventions used in health promotion, and shows how they may be tailored to the developmental needs of children and adolescents. Its multilevel lifespan approach reflects concepts of public health as inclusive, empowering, and aimed at long- and short-term well-being. Coverage grounds readers in theoretical and ecological perspectives, while special sections spotlight key issues in social and behavioral wellness, dietary health, and children and teens in the health care system. And in keeping with best practices in the field, the book emphasizes collaboration with stakeholders, especially with the young clients themselves.

Among the topics covered:

• Child mental health: recent developments with respect to risk, resilience, and interventions
• Health-related concerns among children and adolescents with ADD/ADHD
• Preventing risky sexual behavior in adolescents
• Violence affecting youth: pervasive and preventable
• Childhood and adolescent obesity
• Well-being of children in the foster care system

HealthPromotionforChildrenandAdolescents is a necessary text for graduate or advanced undergraduate courses in public health, education, medicine, psychology, health education, social work, curriculum, nutrition, and public affairs. It is also important reading for public health professionals; researchers in child health, health education, and child psychology; policymakers in education and public health; and teachers.

Maya Rom Korin, PhD, is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and has taught graduate classes in health literacy, child and adolescent health promotion, women’s health, and urban public health. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in behavioral cardiovascular health at Columbia University Medical center as well as a medical ethics fellowship at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Korin received her Ph.D. in Sociomedical Sciences and her M.S. in Epidemiology from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. She has broad public health research experience focusing on the social determinants of health and disease, and is well trained in both quantitative and qualitative methodologies.