Successful Prevention Programs for Children and Adolescents

✍ Scribed by Joseph A. Durlak (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 248
• Series: Issues in Clinical Child Psychology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Successful Prevention Programs for Children and Adolescents presents a wide variety of exemplary programs addressing behavioral and social problems, school failure, drug use, injuries, child abuse, physical health, and other critical issues. The validity and generality of each study's results are given special attention, and outcomes involving actual behavioral change are emphasized. A special appendix lists resources on prevention, including other texts, special journal issues, national clearinghouses, resource centers containing videos and curriculum materials, and Web sites.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Basic Concepts in Prevention....Pages 1-25
Prevention of Behavioral and Social Problems....Pages 27-53
Prevention of Learning Problems....Pages 55-74
Drug Prevention....Pages 75-86
Programs to Improve Physical Health....Pages 87-113
Injury Prevention....Pages 115-130
Child Maltreatment....Pages 131-141
Is Prevention Cost-Effective?....Pages 143-158
Importance of Policy....Pages 159-176
Current Status and Future Directions....Pages 177-201
Back Matter....Pages 203-241

✦ Subjects

Clinical Psychology; Public Health