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A Child's World: Infancy through Adolescence, 9/e
Diane E. Papalia, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sally Wendkos Olds
Ruth Duskin Feldman

Physical Development and Health in Adolescence

Web Links

Box 15-1 The Everyday World - Protecting Against Sexually Transmitted Diseases [see p. 394 in your text].

After you read the above box in your text, and the accompanying"Check it out!" question, go to http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pubs/facts.htm - Fact sheets from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about HIV/AIDS prevention.

or

http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/dstd/dstdp.html - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintains this site for the National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention. The URL is for the Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.

Box 15-2 The Social World - Preventing Teenage Suicide [see p. 396 in your text]

After you read the above box in your text, and the accompanying"Check it out!" question, go to

http://www.aacap.org/publications/factsfam/suicide.htm - a fact sheet about teen suicide, published by the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

or

http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/suifacts.htm - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put together this Suicide Prevention Fact Sheet for the National Center for Injury Prevention & Control Home Page. Many good links to statistics and to prevention materials.