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#19858

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Lynn Ponton's Degrees

Masters Medicine University of California, San Francisco
Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Dr. Lynn Elisabeth Ponton is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of the books The Sex Lives of Teenagers and The Romance of Risk. Her work in the area of adolescent risk-taking has had a high profile at a time of newfound sexual conservatism. Her media publications include MTV, Salon.com, 60 Minutes, and many more.

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Lynn Ponton's Published Works

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Handbook of adolescent health risk behavior. (1996) (444)
Adolescents at Risk (1996) (255)
Prevalence and correlates of cutting behavior: risk for HIV transmission. (1991) (244)
Adolescents with psychiatric disorders and the risk of HIV. (1997) (163)
Adolescents at Risk A Generation in Jeopardy (1996) (105)
Child sexual abuse of Asians compared with other populations. (1992) (97)
HIV-related risk behaviors among psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents and school-based adolescents. (1993) (79)
The developmental implications of prenatal and/or postnatal crack cocaine exposure in preschool children: a preliminary report. (1995) (56)
The romance of risk : why teenagers do the things they do (1997) (56)
Typical adolescent sexual development. (2004) (52)
New Directions for Adolescent Risk Prevention and Health Promotion Research and Interventions (1996) (34)
An AIDS education and prevention program for hospitalized adolescents. (1991) (27)
Going on Being: Buddhism and the Way of Change (2004) (17)
The Sex Lives of Teenagers: Revealing the Secret World of Adolescent Boys and Girls (2000) (15)
Overweight and obesity in native-American adolescents: comparing nonreservation youths with African-American and Caucasian peers. (1995) (15)
The romance of risk (1997) (12)
Adolescence and Psychoanalysis: The Story and the History (1999) (11)
Sexual abuse of boys by clergy. (2004) (10)
Issues unique to psychotherapy with adolescent girls. (1993) (9)
HIV and adolescents: an international perspective. (1992) (8)
Association Between Enterovirus Infection and Asthma in Children: A 16-year Nationwide Population-based Cohort Study (2018) (7)
A review of eating disorders in adolescents. (1995) (7)
After the Earthquake: Organizing to Respond to Children and Adolescents (1991) (6)
Risks of road injuries in patients with bipolar disorder and associations with drug treatments: A population-based matched cohort study. (2018) (4)
The psychological trauma of HIV in India (1998) (4)
Why Children Reject School: Views from Seven Countries (1992) (2)
The Battered Child, Fifth Edition (2006) (2)
Children’s Turn-Arounds in Psychotherapy (2006) (2)
Impact of HIV on child and adolescent psychiatry. (1991) (2)
Teenagers and Sexuality at Camp: Understanding Teen Sexuality and Tips for Talking with Them. (2000) (1)
Reported symptoms of eating disorders among Native American adolescents contrasted with white and black youth (1994) (1)
Standardized intelligence testing : does it do more good than harm ? Authors' reply (1995) (1)
Father and Child: Developmental and Clinical Perspectives (1983) (0)
HIV and adolescents: an international perspective [editorial] (1992) (0)
Ergot Alkaloids and Dementia (0)
45.4 One Woman’s Path (2018) (0)
Metis, Mixed Blood Stories (2011) (0)
Book Review AIDS, HIV, and Mental Health (Psychiatry and Medicine.) By Michael B. King. 197 pp. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1994. $39.95. 0-521-45294-5 (1994) (0)
The Dangerous Age (1997) (0)
Psychiatry-important advances in clinical medicine: recent developments in the diagnosis of childhood depression. (1983) (0)
Child Therapy: Concepts, Strategies, and Decision Making (1999) (0)
Issues and Strategies of Therapeutic Engagement With Emerging Adults Using a Developmental Frame (2014) (0)
SEX TALK: DIFFICULT DISCUSSIONS FOR PROMOTING HEALTHY OUTCOMES (2019) (0)
Book Review Cutting: Understanding and overcoming self-mutilation By Steven Levenkron. 269 pp. New York, W.W. Norton, 1998. $25. 0-393-02741-4 (1999) (0)
Marijuana’s Changing Legal Landscape and Its Implications for Adolescent Psychiatrists: A Report from California (2021) (0)

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