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Risk or Experimental Behavior During Adolescence?

Pierre-André Michaud, MD; Robert Wm. Blum, MD, PhD; Christine Ferron, PhD

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1998;152:224-226.

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A large and growing body of literature has focused on the relationship between the health of adolescents and the notion of risk. Various expressions such as "psychosocial risk," "risk taking," and "problem behavior" have been used to delineate this relationship.^1-4 Interest in risk behavior stems from evidence that most deaths and a substantial amount of adolescent morbidity are related to behavioral and psychosocial characteristics more than to acquired illness or inherited traits. Traffic injuries, suicide, and interpersonal violence are the leading causes of death among adolescents in the United States as well as in many European countries.^5-6

However, the concepts of risk behavior and risk-taking behavior, so often combined with the word "adolescent," should be used more cautiously. Indeed, most of the behaviors considered risk-oriented are essentially developmental in nature²; risk taking is a fact of life.^7-8 The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES

Risk Factors, Risk Behaviors, or Risky Situations?

Does Clustering Correspond to Any Reality?

SOCIOLOGICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES
Are Adolescents the Only Ones Who Take Risks?

Youth Must Have Its Fling

Health Imperialism

IMPLICATIONS
From the Unité d'Évaluation de Programmes de Prévention, Institut de Médecine Sociale et Préventive, Lausanne, Switzerland (Drs Michaud and Ferron); and the Adolescent Health Program, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis (Dr Blum).

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