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Successful prevention programs for children and adolescents /

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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, health, and other critical issues. Because the validity and generality of these studies is of paramoun...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Durlak, Joseph A.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Plenum Press, [1997]
Series:Issues in clinical child psychology.
Subjects:
Child psychopathology > Prevention.
Adolescent psychopathology > Prevention.
Child Behavior Disorders > prevention & control.
Adolescent.
Child.
Mental Disorders > prevention & control.
Preventie.
Probleemgedrag.
Kinderen.
Adolescenten.
Enfants > Psychopathologie > Prevention.
Adolescents > Psychopathologie > Prevention.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Basic concepts in prevention
  • Prevention of behavioral and social problems
  • Prevention of learning problems
  • Drug prevention
  • Programs to improve physical health
  • Injury prevention
  • Child maltreatment
  • Is prevention cost-effective?
  • Importance of policy
  • Current status and future directions
  • Characteristics of effective skill training programs.