Book Review: Physical Activity Interventions in Children and Adolescents

This book review can be found in the issue:

Supporting Teenage Drug-Free Sport: 2009 Resource Issue

The Prevention Researcher,
Volume 16, Supplement, 2009

Participating in sports can have a number of positive effects on youth such as lessening the likelihood of obesity, reducing symptoms of stress and depression, and learning leadership and team building skills. This Resource Issue focuses on healthy, drug-free sport with articles on preventing the use of performance-enhancing substances and implementing a successful peer education program.

This issue also featured these articles:

• • College Student-Athletes as Peer Educators for Substance Abuse Prevention: An Interactive Program, Pages 10-12
• • Helping Parents Talk with Their Children about Performance-Enhancing Substances: The Parent Talk Kit, Pages 5-6
• • Steroids, the Media, and Youth: A Q&A with Travis Tygart, Pages 7-9
• • Supporting Teenage Drug-Free Sport: An Introduction, Pages 3-4

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