Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion

Author by : Thomas P. Gullotta
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2003-01-31
Publisher by : Springer Science & Business Media

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Description : Foundational topics such as history, ethics, and principles of primary prevention, as well as specific issues such as consultation, political issues, and financing. The second section addresses such topics as abuse, depression, eating disorders, HIV/AIDS, injuries, and religion and spirituality often dividing such topics into separate entries addressing childhood, adolescence, and adulthood....

Author by : Martin Bloom
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2014
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Release Date : 1965
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Author by : Thomas P. Gullotta
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2016-12-01
Publisher by : Routledge

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Description : This handbook highlights present-day information and evidence-based knowledge in the field of children’s behavioral health to enable practitioners, families, and others to choose and implement one of many intervention approaches provided. Using a standardized format, best practices for the prevention and treatment of many childhood behavioral disorders are identified based on current research, sound theory, and behavioral trial studies. This revision includes an integration of the DSM-5 diagnostic manual and new chapters on childhood psychosis and military families, and a thorough updating of the research in the previous edition....

Author by : Carl Leukefeld
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2010-04-02
Publisher by : Springer Science & Business Media

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Description : Substance abuse is, and has always been, an indisputable fact of life. People – especially young people – abuse various legal and illegal substances for any number of reasons: to intensify feelings, to achieve deeper consciousness, to escape reality, to self-medicate. And as substance-abusing teenagers mature, they pose particular challenges to the professionals charged with keeping them clean and sober and helping them maintain recovery into adulthood. Adolescent Substance Abuse: Evidence-Based Approaches to Prevention and Treatment offers clear, interdisciplinary guidance that grounds readers in the many contexts – developmental, genetic, social, and familial among them – crucial to creating effective interventions and prevention methods. Its contributors examine current findings regarding popularly used therapies, including psychopharmacology, residential treatment, school- and community-based programs, group homes, and specific forms of individual, family, and group therapy. Accessible to a wide professional audience, this volume: (1) Presents evidence-based support for the treatment decision-making process by identifying interventions that work, might work, and don’t work. (2) Identifies individual traits associated with susceptibility to substance abuse and addiction in youth. (3) Provides a biogenetic model of the effects of drugs on the brain (and refines the concept of gateway drugs). (4) Evaluates the effectiveness of prevention programs in school and community settings. (5) Adds historical, spiritual, and legal perspectives on substance use and misuse. (6) Includes the bonus resource, the Community Prevention Handbook on Adolescent Substance Abuse and Treatment. This volume is an all-in-one reference for counseling professionals and clinicians working with youth and families as well as program developers in state and local agencies and graduate students in counseling and prevention....

Author by : Thomas P. Gullotta
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2010-06-25
Publisher by : Springer Science & Business Media

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Description : School activities alone are not always sufficient to ensure children’s academic progress or socio-emotional development and well-being. And the time when many children typically have the least adult supervision – immediately after school – is also the time that they are at the highest risk to act as perpetrators or become victims of antisocial behavior. Throughout A Blueprint for Promoting Academic and Social Competence in After-School Programs, which focuses on children in grades 1 through 6, noted experts identify the best practices of effective programs and pinpoint methods for enhancing school-based skills and making them portable to home and neighborhood settings. This volume: (1) Analyzes the concepts central to effective after-school programs. (2) Offers developmental, cognitive, and social ecology perspectives on how children learn. (3) Features more than 100 exercises that develop young people’s capabilities for academic, social, moral, and emotional learning – These exercises are ready to use or can be adapted to students’ unique needs. (4) Emphasizes young people’s development as students and as productive members of society during middle to late childhood and early adolescence. (5) Presents explicit theory and evidence that can be used to explain the value of after-school programs for budget proposals. This important book will find an appreciative, ready audience among the program directors who design after-school curricula, the educators who implement them, the mental health and social work professionals who help staff them, and the current crop of graduate students who will create the next generation of programs....

Author by : Arnold Lohaus
Languange Used : de
Release Date : 2009-05-27
Publisher by : Springer-Verlag

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Description : Der Markt der Trainings- und Förderprogramme im Kindes- und Jugendbereich ist unübersichtlich. Dieses Buch ist eine unverzichtbare Entscheidungshilfe. Die Herausgeber haben ein Team aus Top-Experten zusammengebracht, das die wichtigsten Verfahren in allen Problembereichen ausgewählt und beschrieben hat. Alle Programme werden nach einem einheitlichem Schema knapp und präzise vorgestellt: Auf einen kurzen Steckbrief folgen die Beschreibung der Zielgruppe, der Rahmenbedingungen, des Konzepts, des Ablaufs sowie Materialien und Befunde zur Wirksamkeit....