Abstract
A review of Reducing Adolescent Sexual Risk: A Theoretical Guide for Developing and Adapting Curriculum-Based Programs by Douglas Kirby.
Author Biography
Dr. Ralph DiClemente is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Public Health and Co-Director of the CFAR Developmental Core. He holds concurrent appointments as Professor in the School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, in the Division of Infectious Diseases and in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Immunology. Dr. DiClemente was trained as a Health Psychologist at the University of California San Francisco where he received his Ph.D. in 1984 after completing an M.S. in Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health and his undergraduate degree at the City University of New York.
Dr. DiClemente’s area of expertise is in the development and evaluation of prevention programs tailored to African American adolescents and young adults. He has published extensively in the area of HIV/STI prevention, particularly among African American adolescents and young adults. He has published extensively in the area of partner violence. He is the author of more than 200 publications including the recent books the Handbook of Adolescent Health Risk Behaviors, Handbook of HIV Prevention; Adolescents and AIDS: A Generation in Jeopardy; Preventing HIV Infection in Developing Countries: Biomedical and Behavioral Interventions, Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health: Social, Psychological and Public Health Perspectives, and Emerging Theories in Health Promotion Research and Practice.
Recommended Citation
DiClemente, Ralph J.
(2011)
"Review: Reducing Adolescent Sexual Risk: A Theoretical Guide for Developing and Adapting Curriculum-Based Programs,"
Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk: Vol. 2:
Iss.
2, Article 18.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58464/2155-5834.1052
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/childrenatrisk/vol2/iss2/18
