Prevention: What Works with Children and Adolescents?

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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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432 pages, Paperback

First published February 20,2003

About the author

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Professor Alan Carr, BA, MA, PhD, Reg Psychol FPsI, C Psychol FBPsS, Reg FTAI, ECP, has a personal chair in clinical psychology at University College Dublin, where he is Head of the School of Psychology (2012-2015) and director of the doctoral programme in clinical psychology. He also has a clinical practice at the Clanwilliam Institute, Dublin.

http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/psy...


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