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Adolescent Mental Health Promotion: Policy and Practice

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Behavior Disorders of Adolescence

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Due to better sanitation, improved nutrition, and more effective curative medicine, the health of children throughout the world has shown consistent improvement over the past 100 years, and continues to show increased improvement in the most recent decades (Doll, 1983). As a result, the majority of chronic disorders affecting children and adolescents consists largely of psychological, social, and educational problems (Graham, 1985).

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Robert J. McMahon

  2. Department of Psychology, Queen’s University and Beechgrove Children’s Centre, Kingston, ON, Canada

    Ray DeV. Peters

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DeV. Peters, R. (1990). Adolescent Mental Health Promotion: Policy and Practice. In: McMahon, R.J., DeV. Peters, R. (eds) Behavior Disorders of Adolescence. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3734-2_14

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