Dawn K Wilson, Tom Baranowski, Ronald J Iannotti, Alan M Delamater

Broschiertes Buch

Promoting Healthy Diet and Physical Activity in Children and Adolescents

Developmental Issues

Beschreibung

Written by respected experts in the field, this book provides an integrative framework that ties behaviours related to diet and physical activity to child development in a quest to point toward intervention approaches that hold better promise for success.

Autor

Dawn K. Wilson (Ph.D., Psychology, Vanderbilt, 1988) is a Research Associate Professor in the Prevention Research Center and Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior of the University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health. She also serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University. Her major research interests are in health promotion in youth, health psychology and behavioral medicine, and prevention and epidemiology. She is active in the Society of Behavioral Medicine, APA Divisions 38 (Health Psychology) and 12 (Pediatric Psychology), and other associations. In 1997, she received a Recognition of Significant Contribution to Health Psychology from APA for her editorship of "Health-Promoting & Health-Compromising Behavior Among Minority Adolescents." She has received the SBM Distinguished Service Award (2000) and has attained Fellow Status for Scientific Achievement in both SBM (2000) and APA Division 38 (2001). She is widely published.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781412916394
• ISBN-10: 1412916399
• Artikelnr.: 60176907