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Prevention: What Works with Children and Adolescents?: A Critical Review of Psychological Prevention Programmes for Children, Adolescents and their Families

Prevention: What Works with Children and Adolescents?: A Critical Review of Psychological Prevention Programmes for Children, Adolescents and their Families

by Alan Carr (Editor)

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    Illustrated 2002

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Synopsis

Prevention: What Works with Children and Adolescents? deals with the prevention of psychological problems which are of central concern to those who fund and develop health, social and educational services for children, adolescents and their families. Problems addressed in this book include developmental delay in low birth weight infants and socially disadvantaged children; adjustment problems in children with sensory and additional disabilities and autism; challenging behaviour in children with intellectual disabilities; physical and sexual abuse; bullying; adjustment problems in children with asthma and diabetes; teenage smoking; alcohol use and drug abuse; teenage pregnancy, STDs and HIV infection; post-traumatic adjustment problems and adolescent suicide. Conclusions drawn in this book are based on the results of over 200 rigorously conducted studies of more than 70,000 children.

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 432
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 02 May 2002
ISBN 10: 1583912762
ISBN 13: 9781583912768

Media Reviews
Alan Carr and his colleagues have been both thorough and systematic in their approach to the literature on prevention. Clinicians might well find this a useful resource to the particular disorders or problems. - Professor Sir Michael Rutter, Institute of Psychiatry, London
Author Bio
Alan Carr is Director of the Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology at University College Dublin. His other publications include The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology: A Contextual Approach (1999), What Works for Children and Adolescents: A Critical Review of Psychological Interventions with Children, Adolescents and their Families (2000) and Abnormal Psychology(2001).