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At risk youth : a comprehensive response : for counselors, teachers, psychologists, and human service professionals / J. Jeffries McWhirter, Benedict T. McWhirter, Ellen Hawley McWhirter and Robert J. McWhirter

Contributor(s): Publisher: Belmont, CA : Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning, c2013Edition: 5th edDescription: xx, 428 pages : ill. ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780840028594
  • 0840028598
  • 9781133371625
  • 1133371620
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.740973 R595 2013
Contents:
Part. 1. At-risk children and youth : the ecology of problems -- 1 An introduction to at-risk issues -- 2 Environmental/societal factors that contribute to risk -- 3 Legal and ethical issues. Part 2. Families, schools, and skills -- 4 Family Problems of at-risk children and youth -- 5 School issues that relate to at-risk children and youth -- 6 Individual characteristics of high-risk and low-risk children and youth. Part 3. At-risk categories -- 7 School dropout -- 8 Substance use and addiction -- 9 Teenage pregnancy, STDs, and risky sexual behavior -- 10 Juvenile delinquency and youth violence -- 11 Youth suicide. Part 4. Prevention, intervention, and treatment approaches -- 12 Prevention, early intervention, treatment Framework, and other environmental considerations -- 13 Core components of programs for prevention and early intervention -- 14 Peer interventions -- 15 Family interventions.
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Reference Reference College Library Social Work 362.740973 R595 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 03/17/2023 94788

Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-414) and indexes.

Part. 1. At-risk children and youth : the ecology of problems -- 1 An introduction to at-risk issues -- 2 Environmental/societal factors that contribute to risk -- 3 Legal and ethical issues. Part 2. Families, schools, and skills -- 4 Family Problems of at-risk children and youth -- 5 School issues that relate to at-risk children and youth -- 6 Individual characteristics of high-risk and low-risk children and youth. Part 3. At-risk categories -- 7 School dropout -- 8 Substance use and addiction -- 9 Teenage pregnancy, STDs, and risky sexual behavior -- 10 Juvenile delinquency and youth violence -- 11 Youth suicide. Part 4. Prevention, intervention, and treatment approaches -- 12 Prevention, early intervention, treatment Framework, and other environmental considerations -- 13 Core components of programs for prevention and early intervention -- 14 Peer interventions -- 15 Family interventions.

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