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BCYF Completed Project
Science of Adolescence: Three Workshops
Committee Report
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The Science of Adolescent Risk-Taking: Workshop Report (2010)
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Workshops
Workshop #3 --- December 14, 2009 --- Workshop on Understanding and Preventing Adolescent Risk Behavior: Integrating Findings Across Domains of Influence
-- View the Workshop Agenda and PowerPoint Presentations
-- Read the papers prepared for this workshop
Workshop #2 --- May 28, 2009 --- Workshop on Social and Environmental Influences and Adolescent Risk Behavior
-- View the Workshop Agenda and PowerPoint Presentations
Workshop #1 --- November 20, 2008 --- Workshop on Individual Processes and Adolescent Risk Behavior
-- View the Workshop Agenda and PowerPoint Presentations
Connection to project scope, roster, and meetings (CPS system)
Background
The National Research Council (NRC) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) formed a committee to organize three workshops which reviewed the science of adolescence within a life course perspective and highlighted the implications of this research for preventing risk behavior.
This effort included three public workshops and a set of commissioned papers highlighting strengths and gaps in the research literature. The workshops produced a summary report that reviewed the commissioned papers and workshop presentations and highlighted key observations.
The intent of this effort was to summarize the current state of knowledge, highlight lessons learned from providers and practitioners working in this area, and identify the knowledge, research opportunities, and emerging fields of science that offer promise for the design, implementation, and evaluation of prevention programs for adolescents, as well as to foster positive assets and relationships that can promote healthy development. The committee evaluated the science base on adolescent development and risk behavior and considered how research on changes in biological, psychological, social contextual (e.g. family and peer) processes that occur during adolescence may inform the design of prevention, health promotion, and treatment interventions that address problem behaviors that emerge during adolescence, especially in areas that involve sexual conduct (such as teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections) and substance abuse.
The workshop report is now available: The Science of Adolescent Risk-Taking: Workshop Report.
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