Alcohol and Alcoholism Vol. 35, No. 6, pp. 630, 2000
© 2000 Medical Council on Alcoholism
Book Reviews
Alcohol use among Adolescents.
By M. Windle. Sage Publications. 1999, 160pp., £15.99. ISBN: 0761909206.
This book is one in the Sage series Developmental Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry. It provides a readable and comprehensive American overview of the subject. Professor Windle has attempted to cover the breadth of the subject with five stand-alone chapters on: Scope of Adolescent Alcohol Use; Measurement and Diagnosis; Risk and Protective Factors; Approaches to Prevention; Conceptual and Methodological Issues and Future Research Directions.
The beauty of the book is in the detail, and the selection of research findings which encourage one to go to the 12 pages of references to seek