Enhancing Children's Wellness: 8 (Issues in Children′s and Families′ Lives) - Softcover

Roger Weissberg; Thomas Gullotta; Robert Hampton; Bruce Ryan; Gerald Adams

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761910921 ISBN 13: 9780761910923

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1997

Synopsis

Aimed at providing a foundation for increasing the quantity and quality of physical and mental health care for children, this book describes the latest research and theories about family, school, and community prevention and health-promotion programs to improve the health status of children during the next decade. This impressive group of researchers examine such pertinent questions as: + Why do problem behaviors occur together (like substance abuse, delinquency, and school failure)? And, to what extent can common strategies prevent each of these difficulties? + Are we effectively using what we know to prevent drug use among children? + What strategies are the most promising for preventing unwanted pregnancy and AIDS? + Does violent/aggressive behavior result from unmet developmental needs? + What programs have been most effective in preventing depression and suicide in young people? + Are there reliable prevention strategies that can reproduce the risk of unintentional injury among children? This thought-provoking book identifies innovative and empirically based preventive and health-promotion strategies that schools and communities may implement to enhance childrenÆs social, emotional, and physical wellness and thus will be interest to professionals and practitioners in the fields of developmental psychology, clinical psychology, family studies, social work, counseling, human services, nursing, and public health.

About this title

About the Authors

Prevention, Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut, New London, CT.

Personality and Social Development, University of Guelph.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761910921
• ISBN 13: 9780761910923
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336