Aimed at professionals who work with adolescents - including psychiatrists, clinical counsellors and school nurses - this comprehensive volume offers insights into promoting the social, physical and emotional well-being of young adults. In twenty-two chapters, experts from a wide range of disciplines look not only at successful programmes and intervention strategies for assisting youths, but examine the cultural and societal context of adolescent problems so that practitioners can recognize and address these underlying factors in their interventions - and thereby improve their effectiveness.