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A Biopsychosocial Perspective of Adolescent Health and Disease

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Although considered to be a normative part of adolescence, risk-taking behaviors are nonetheless concerning because these actions often endanger adolescents’ current and future health and well-being. A variety of factors, including biological, psychosocial, and environmental, have been found to be associated with various adolescent risk-taking behaviors. The biopsychosocial model of risk-taking provides a framework in which social environmental factors as well as existing biological and psychological predispositions interact to influence risk-taking behavior. In this chapter, we (1) briefly review the studies or theories of risk-taking that focus predominately on one factor (i.e., biological, psychological, and environmental) as it related to risk-taking behavior; (2) describe the multidimensional biopsychosocial model of risk-taking; (3) provide empirical evidence supporting the utility of the biopsychosocial model for better understanding various adolescent health-endangering behaviors; and (4) suggest future directions for the utility of the biopsychosocial model of risk-taking for advancing our understanding of adolescent health.

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  2. Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 0503, LH 245, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA

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Sales, J.M., Irwin, C.E. (2013). A Biopsychosocial Perspective of Adolescent Health and Disease. In: O'Donohue, W., Benuto, L., Woodward Tolle, L. (eds) Handbook of Adolescent Health Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6633-8_2

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