Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science (The SAGE Program on Applied Developmental Science)
Contributors: Celia B. Fisher (Editor); Richard M. Lerner (Editor)
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc; Sage Publications
Published: October 16, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1298
ISBN-13: 9780761928201
Subjects: Child & developmental psychology; Reference works; Encyclopedias; Child development; Psychology; Youth development; Applied Psychology; Developmental - General; Reference; Psychology & Psychiatry / Developmental Psychology; Adolescence; Developmental psychology
First sentence: In recent years, the notion of "abstinence" as a youth public health message-specifically, that the only healthy sexual expression is abstinence-has taken on weighty political and ideological meanings.