International Perspectives on Child and Adolescent Mental Health (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Singh, Nirbhay N; Singh, Ashvind N; Ollendick, Thomas H

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Produktbeschreibung

The papers included in this volume highlight research and practice in child and adolescent mental health from around the world. As systems of care are different across countries and cultures, it is imperative that knowledge is shared and lessons learned. The biennial Elsevier conference on Child and Adolescent Mental Health is designed to provide a forum for mental health and educational experts from various disciplines and countries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 562
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780080513737
• Artikelnr.: 38120565

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Mental health of children and adolescents (R. Manikam).
Interventions and Outcomes. Challenges and new directions in developing
effective empirically validated parenting and family intervention programs
(M.R. Sanders). Interventions and outcomes in autism (P. Howlin). The
positive parenting program: an early intervention to improve personal
relationships between teenagers and their parents (A. Ralph, M.R. Sanders).
Reorientation of service delivery in Australia to an early intervention
approach (A. O'Hanlon et al.). Mitigating the effects of war and
displacement on children (W. Yule). Prevention. Preventing depression in
adolescence: short term results from the problem solving for life program
(S.H. Spence, C.L. Donovan). The resourceful adolescent program: a
universal approach to the prevention of depression in adolescents (I.M.
Shochet et al.). A community service model for the delivery of early
childhood mental illness prevention programs (A. Wheeler, P. Riviere).
Measurement in Mental Health. The revised version of the Screen for Anxiety
Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED-R): a new scale for measuring childhood
anxiety (P. Muris). Preliminary development of a culturally appropriate
measure for Asian children's depression (J.B. Koh et al.). Assessment of
family functioning in Chinese adolescents: the Chinese family assessment
instrument (D.T.L. Shek). Risk and Protective Factors. Problem behavior in
adolescence: differential manifestations, developmental trends and risk
factors (M. Dekovic et al.). Adolescents at risk of school exclusion: the
identification of key risk factors to guide intervention (R. Cains).
Relationship between child psycho-pathology and parental alcoholism (R.C.
Jiloha). Child and Adolescent Disorders. Psychiatric comorbidity with
anxiety disorders in adolescents: frequency and clinical consequences (C.
Essau). Symptom patterns of children and adolescents with chronic fatigue
syndrome (K.S. Rowe, K.J. Rowe). A multidimensional evaluation of
adolescent drug abusers: preliminary results of a longitudinal study (M.
Bolognini et al.). Incidence of nonverbal learning disability in a high
school anger management class (D. Duncan et al.). Cultural Mental Health.
Effects of environmental factors on psychological adjustment in very low
birthweight and higher birthweight Jamaican adolescents (M.C. Lambert et
al.). Cross-cultural differences in suicidal ideation between children in
Nigeria and Botswana (E.A. Akinade). Exploring the associations between
social class, binge drinking and other risk behaviors among Brazilian young
people (R. Uchoa et al.). The psychological and sociocultural adaption of
Chinese and Vietnamese immigrant adolescents in Australia (C. Leung, W.
Karnilowicz). Author and subject index.