Teaching Decision Making To Adolescents

• Contents: J. Baron, R.V. Brown, Prologue: Why Americans Can't Think Straight. J. Baron, R.V. Brown, Introduction. R. Beyth-Marom, B. Fischhoff, M.J. Quadrel, L. Furby, Teaching Decision Making to Adolescents: A Critical Review. L. Mann, R. Harmoni, C. Power, The GOFER Course in Decision Making. M.J. Adams, C.E. Feehrer, Thinking and Decision-Making. J. Baron, R.V. Brown, Toward Improved Instruction in Decision Making To Adolescents: A Conceptual Framework and Pilot Program. K.B. Laskey, V.N. Campbell, Evaluation of Intermediate Level Decision Analysis Course. G. Graumlich, J. Baron, Teaching Decision Making in the City: Two Experiences. M.J. Elias, L.R. Branden-Muller, M.A. Sayette, Teaching Foundations of Social Decision Making and Problem Solving in Elementary School. J. Shanteau, M. Grier, J. Johnson, E. Berner, Teaching Decision Making Skills to Student Nurses. A.W. Martin, R.V. Brown, Analog Devices for Teaching Decision Skills to Adolescents. J.P. Williams, Learning-Disabled Adolescents' Difficulties in Solving Personal Social Problems. J.A. Swets, Normative Decision Making. V.N. Campbell, K.B. Laskey, Institutional Strategy for Teaching Decision Making in Schools. D.D. Wheeler, Metaphors for Effective Thinking.

"The first two chapters of this excellent volume serve as a gentle polemic for the need to focus increased attention on the necessity for teaching adolescents the skills of decision making....a comprehensive guide to a variety of innovative programs of critical promise....an invaluable source for researchers or those attempting to adopt a school-based decision-making approach to problems of adolescents."—Contemporary Psychology