<p>Seminar, three hours. Adolescent health and interventions, with focus on sex, alcohol, and drug use. Focus on adolescent identity development, adolescent sexuality, discussion of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues, components of sexual risk-taking behavior, and alcohol and drug use (e.g., peer influence, changes in brain activity) and interventions that have been developed to address these behaviors. Building of skills to work with adolescent populations and in community-based settings. Letter grading.</p>

Community Health Sciences

The school aims to build health and equity, and to drive positive change for all people. The school acts on this mission through initiatives in three core areas: education, discovery, and service.

Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health

The department is concerned with health equity and well-being for all individuals and communities.

General Catalog

Evolving Paradigms of Prevention: Interventions in Adolescence

COM HLT 238

4 units