Factors that reinforce or prevent adolescent risk taking and the impact of individual risk taking on family, community and government

What this note covers

1. Reinforcing factors operate at several levels
2. Rewards, beliefs, stress and capability
3. Peers, family and community norms
4. Availability, commercial influence and policy
5. Factors that prevent or detract from risk
6. Impacts on families and communities
7. Government impacts and shared responsibility
8. Commercial influences on adolescent risk

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