Research Catalog

Title

Improving children's lives : global perspectives on prevention / editors, George W. Albee, Lynne A. Bond, Toni V. Cook Monsey.

Publication

Newbury Park : Sage Publications, ©1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Albee, George W.
• Bond, Lynne A., 1949-
• Monsey, Toni V. C.
• Vermont Conference on the Primary Prevention of Psychopathology (15th : 1990 : University of Vermont)

Description

x, 398 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Primary prevention of psychopathology ; v. 14

Uniform Title

Primary prevention of psychopathology ; v. 14.

Subject

• Child psychiatry > Congresses
• Community mental health services for children > Congresses
• Mental illness > Prevention > Congresses
• Children
• Infants
• Community mental health services
• Mental illness
• Child
• Infant
• Community Mental Health Services
• Mental Disorders
• Mental Disorders > prevention & control
• children (people by age group)
• infants
• mental disorders
• Mental illness
• Infants
• Community mental health services
• Children
• Child psychiatry
• Community mental health services for children
• Mental illness > Prevention
• Kind
• Gesundheitsfürsorge
• Gesundheitsvorsorge
• Psychohygiene
• Kinder- en jeugdpsychiatrie
• Preventieve gezondheidszorg
• Psiquiatria da crianca e do adolescente

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Congresses.
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Outgrowth of the Fifteenth Vermont Conference on the Primary Prevention of Psychopathology, held June 1990 at the University of Vermont.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Barriers to the primary prevention of mental, neurological, and psychosocial disorders of children : a global perspective / Morton Kramer -- Life in the brink / Alan Durning -- An epidemiological study of mental disorders during early childhood in the Soviet Union / Olga V. Bazhenova, et al. ... -- One little girl -- Improving children's lives : the case for primary prevention in Ghana / Araba Sefa-Dedeh -- Prevention of mental illness in children in third world countries : a pakistani perspective / Syed Arshad Husain -- The Impact of women's health and status on children's health and lives in the developing world / Mawaheb El-Mouelhy -- Children born from unwanted pregnancies : prevention of psychological subdeprivation / Zdenek Dytrych -- Making a dangerous world more tolerable for children : implications of research on reactions to nuclear war threat, war, and disaster / Milton Schwebel.
• Endangered children in Thailand : third world families affected by socioeconomic changes / Chok C. Hiew -- Primary prevention of mental disorders and mental health promotion in Europe : developments and possibilities for innovation / Clemens M. H. Hosman. -- Empowerment and social change : health promotion within the healthy cities project of WHO- steps toward a participative prevention program / Wolfgang Stark -- The Dutch way of prevention / Henk Verburg, et al. ... -- A Multimodal approach to prevention : a review of India's integrated child development scheme / Nomita Sonty -- Huckleberry Finn and street youth everywhere : an approach to primary prevention / Forrest B. Tyler, et al. ... -- Two school-based approaches to promoting children's social competence / Victor A. Battistich, Maurice J. Elias, and Leslie R. Branden-Muller / Personality development and academic improvement for schoolchildren in India / K.V.Kaliappan -- Quality of life in families with mentally retarded children : promoting independence and acceptance / Irena Obuchowska and Michael Obuchowski -- Fostering parental
• Television violence : a proactive prevention campaign / Max W. Abbott -- Victimization among schoolchildren : intervention and prevention / Dan Olweus -- New directions in research in the prevention of conduct disorder / Doreen Spilton Koretz and Joyce Barham Lazar -- Saving children means social revolution / George W. Albee -- Infecting our children with hostility / Kenneth B. Clark -- Youth as resources : a new paradigm in social policy for youth / John A. Calhoun -- Fetal alcohol syndrome : a parent's perspective / Michael Dorris -- Mexico's challenge : facing a growing youth population / Beatriz Rivera de Tarrab, Patricia Ortega-Andeane, and Jorge Manuel Velasco-Alzaga -- The Rights of the child : progress toward human dignity / Brian L. Wilcox and Hedwin Naimark -- U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child : unofficial summary of articles.

ISBN

• 0803946104
• 9780803946101

LCCN

91035916

OCLC

• ocm24543564
• 24543564
• SCSB-2024008

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library