Adolescent Health and Wellbeing : Current Strategies and Future Trends

This book presents a detailed and updated review of the widespread changes that take place during adolescence, adopting a preventive perspective that reflects physical, social, cognitive, and emotional changes. It addresses a broad range of aspects, including: the preventive programs and their systemic effects; the role of environment in influencing the healthy behaviors of adolescents and young adults; the use of e-Health technology in health and behavioral interventions for adolescents; and the clinical and prognostic implications of primordial prevention in healthy adolescents. All of these elements are subsequently reviewed using a multidimensional approach, in order to offer extensive information on the complex changes that characterize adolescents’ physiological, psychological, and neurobiological development. In addition, the book depicts the preventive strategies currently used in various social settings (school, family, sport club, health policies) aimed not only at reducing lifestyle risk behaviors, but also at improving resilience, happiness, social involvement, self-esteem, and sociability. This update is essential in the light of the fact that, to date, prevention has mainly been directed towards adolescents with physical or mental disorders rather than their healthy peers. As such, the book offers a valuable tool for pediatricians, child and adolescents psychiatrists, and for all professionals involved in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Front Matter ....Pages 1-2 Preventive Primordial Strategies: Times Are Changing (Morena Lari, Irene Traghella, Cristina Vassalle)....Pages 3-18 Fetal Programming of Adult Disease in a Translational Point of View (Francesca Mastorci, Jacopo Agrimi)....Pages 19-34 Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour and Mental Health in Young People: A Review of Reviews (María Rodriguez-Ayllon, Fernando Estévez-López, Cristina Cadenas-Sanchez, Luis Gracia-Marco, David R. Lubans, Francisco B. Ortega et al.)....Pages 35-73 Habits and Quality of Diet (Iris Iglesia, Alba Maria Santaliestra-Pasías, Luis Alberto Moreno Aznar)....Pages 75-89 Biochemical Markers in Primordial Prevention: Premises and Promises (Eugène Jansen, Laila Meija)....Pages 91-105 Front Matter ....Pages 107-108 Prenatal and Early Postnatal Influences on Neurodevelopment: The Role of Epigenetics (Veronica Mariotti, Sara Palumbo, Silvia Pellegrini)....Pages 109-129 The Role of Environmental Enrichment on Neurodevelopment: Emotion Regulation in Adolescence as a Model Paradigm (Juste Buneviciute, Jasmine Tatum, Genevieve J. Yang, Timothy R. Rice)....Pages 131-151 Relationship Between Emotions, Sleep and Well-Being (Andrea Zaccaro, Ciro Conversano, Elisa Lai, Angelo Gemignani)....Pages 153-166 Adolescents in the 21st Century: Back to Dialogue from Marked Lives vs Dreamed Lives (Marco Braghero)....Pages 167-202 Front Matter ....Pages 203-204 Adolescence and Social Determinants of Health: Family and Community (Claudia Cappa, Sara Giulivi)....Pages 205-229 The Role of Well-Being in the School of Inclusion (Floriana Battaglia, Lucio Bontempelli)....Pages 231-241 Two-Faced Janus: The Role of Peers in Adolescence (Marta Pozzi, Mario Becciu, Anna Rita Colasanti)....Pages 243-269 Front Matter ....Pages 271-271 Adolescence Between Past and Future (Cesare Porcelli, Angela Palumbo)....Pages 273-284 e-Health Strategies (Ada Potenza, Pierpaolo Di Bitonto, Antonio Ulloa Severino)....Pages 285-309 Images and Perspectives of Play for Children’s and Adolescents’ Well-being (Maria Antonella Galanti)....Pages 311-325 New Perspectives for Multidisciplinary and Integrated Strategies of Adolescent Health and Well-being (Alessandro Pingitore, Luca Bastiani, Cristina Doveri, Gabriele Trivellini, Francesca Mastorci)....Pages 327-343 Back Matter ....Pages 345-352