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Child and adolescent obesity is one of the major public health problems of the modern era. Although increases in obesity rates among young people have slowed in recent years, about a third of American adolescents are overweight or obese. This chapter provides an overview of obesity in adolescence and considers sources of risk and resilience from a variety of different contexts. It reviews the state of evidenced-based treatment and prevention, acknowledging the limitations of the current body of experimental evidence while identifying novel, community-based approaches that might hold promise.

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Miller, D.P., Brooks-Gunn, J. (2015). Obesity. In: Gullotta, T., Plant, R., Evans, M. (eds) Handbook of Adolescent Behavioral Problems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7497-6_15

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