Download or read book Preventing Youth Problems written by Anthony Biglan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides information needed to prevent five of the most common, costly, and dangerous problems of adolescence: anti-social behavior, tobacco use, alcohol and drug abuse, and sexual behavior that risks disease and unwanted pregnancy. It is an important resource for psychologists, sociologists, social workers, and educators, as well as for upper-level students in these areas.
Download or read book Youth Violence written by Daniel J. Flannery and published by American Psychiatric Pub. This book was released on 1999 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a resource for dealing with both perpetrators and victims of violence and understanding the risk factors facing youth. Presenting an assessment of effects of exposure to violence and the continuity of aggression from early childhood to adulthood, it outlines an integration strategy for public policy towards prevention and treatment.
Download or read book Promoting Positive Youth Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults written by United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2012 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Surgeon General's report details the causes and the consequences of tobacco use among youth and young adults by focusing on the social, environmental, advertising, and marketing influences that encourage youth and young adults to initiate and sustain tobacco use. This is the first time tobacco data on young adults as a discrete population have been explored in detail. The report also highlights successful strategies to prevent young people from using tobacco
Download or read book Communities That Care written by Abigail A. Fagan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars and policymakers increasingly call for evidence-based, prevention-oriented, and community-driven approaches to improve public health and reduce youth crime, substance use, and related problems. However, few functional models exist. In Communities that Care, four leading experts on prevention describe one such system to illustrate how communities effectively engage in prevention activities. Communities That Care (CTC) is a coalition-based prevention system implemented successfully in dozens of communities across the world that promotes healthy development and reduces crime rates for youth. Drawing on literature from criminology, community psychology, and prevention science this book describes the conditions and actions necessary for effective community-based prevention. The authors illustrate how effective community-based prevention can be undertaken by describing how the CTC prevention system has been developed, implemented, evaluated, and disseminated across the U.S. and internationally. Communities that Care shares invaluable lessons about the implementation and evaluation of community-level interventions and establishes a set of best practices for anyone seeking to engage in and/or evaluate effective prevention efforts.
Download or read book Preventing Youth Substance Abuse written by Patrick H. Tolan and published by American Psychological Association (APA). This book was released on 2007 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CSAP identified four critical predictors from childhood for substance use that could be valuable targets for prevention of adolescent substance use management of and involvement with the child, and the child's social competence, and school achievement. This book shows how seven selected prevention programs address these.
Download or read book Gambling Problems in Youth written by Jeffrey L. Derevensky and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard J. Shaffer, Ph. D. More than 20 years ago, I first noted that young people in North America were growing up in a context of legalized gambling for their entire lifetime. By the 1980s, for young people, gambling had become an average and expectable part of the social landscape. Amid legal opportunities to gamble in all but two of the United States and with illicit opportunities to gamble in every state, gambling is now ubiquitous in America. With few social sa- tions to limit a young person’s interest in gambling—like their adult co- terparts—young people now gamble in larger numbers and for seemingly higher stakes. Gradually, gambling-related problems became more visible for young people and the culture slowly but increasingly took notice. By the late 1990s, every sector of American and Canadian society had started to c- sider the effects of legalized gambling on youth. For different reasons, r- resentatives of the gambling and health care industries led the movement to prevent youthful gambling and reconcile existing problems whenever p- sible. Scientists also recognized that there was much to be learned by stu- ing young gamblers. Toward the end of the 20th century, there was a rapid increase in gambling research focusing on developmental issues; half of what is known about gambling emerged during the 1990s. This volume represents an important event in the continuing growth of a field.
Download or read book Successful Prevention and Youth Development Programs written by Laura Ferrer-Wreder and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of this work closely explore the incidence of problem youth behaviors and scrutinize the efficacy of existing prevention programs. This review includes interventions specifically designed to promote youth development or to minimize the long-term consequences of problem behaviors from violence and criminality, substance use and abuse, teen pregnancy and hazardous sexual behaviors, and school failure. Academics and professionals in public health social work, psychology, and school counseling will find special interest in this important work.
Download or read book Helping Adolescents at Risk written by and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive volume reviews current knowledge about multiple problem behaviors in adolescence, focusing on "what works" in prevention and treatment. Cutting-edge research is presented on the epidemiology, development, and social costs of four youth problems that frequently co-occur: serious antisocial behavior, drug and alcohol misuse, tobacco smoking, and risky sexual behavior. A framework for reducing these behaviors is outlined, drawing on both clinical and public health perspectives, and empirically supported prevention and treatment programs are identified. Also addressed are ways to promote the development, dissemination, and effective implementation of research-based intervention practices. Authored by an interdisciplinary panel of experts, this is a state-of-the-science sourcebook and text for anyone working with or studying adolescents at risk.
Download or read book The CMHS Approach to Enhancing Youth Resilience and Preventing Youth Violence in Schools and Communities written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Better Ways to Help Youth written by United States. Youth Development and Delinquency Prevention Administration and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reducing Underage Drinking written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-03-26 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alcohol use by young people is extremely dangerous - both to themselves and society at large. Underage alcohol use is associated with traffic fatalities, violence, unsafe sex, suicide, educational failure, and other problem behaviors that diminish the prospects of future success, as well as health risks â€" and the earlier teens start drinking, the greater the danger. Despite these serious concerns, the media continues to make drinking look attractive to youth, and it remains possible and even easy for teenagers to get access to alcohol. Why is this dangerous behavior so pervasive? What can be done to prevent it? What will work and who is responsible for making sure it happens? Reducing Underage Drinking addresses these questions and proposes a new way to combat underage alcohol use. It explores the ways in which may different individuals and groups contribute to the problem and how they can be enlisted to prevent it. Reducing Underage Drinking will serve as both a game plan and a call to arms for anyone with an investment in youth health and safety.
Download or read book Youth Violence written by United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Working with Youth in High Risk Environments written by Carol E. Marcus and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1996-07 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on programs which help youth in high-risk neighborhoods learn to say "no" to drugs. Covers 18 grants and the programs that were created with those grants. Includes characteristics of youths (juvenile delinquents, athletes of low socioeconomic status), offers insight into how to develop model programs for youth (lack of data, lack of effective mgmt. techniques), problems faced in implementing demonstration grant programs (lack of resources, resistance to training), and reports on successful programs (retreats, awareness training).
Download or read book Handbook of Youth Prevention Science written by Beth Doll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Youth Prevention Science describes current research and practice in mental health preventive interventions for youth. Traditional prevention research focused on preventing specific disorders, e.g. substance abuse, conduct disorders, or criminality. This produced "silos" of isolated knowledge about the prevention of individual disorders without acknowledging the overlapping goals, strategies, and impacts of prevention programs. This Handbook reflects current research and practice by organizing prevention science around comprehensive systems that reach across all disorders and all institutions within a community. Throughout the book, preventive interventions are seen as complementary components of effective mental health programs, not as replacements for therapeutic interventions. This book is suitable for researchers, instructors and graduate students in the child and adolescent mental health professions: school psychology, school counseling, special education, school social work, child clinical psychology and the libraries serving them. It is also suitable for graduate course work in these fields.
Download or read book Youth at Risk written by Dave Capuzzi and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This book provides information, techniques, and strategies for a wide range of helping professionals who work with youth at risk -- counselors, teachers, parents, administrators, social workers, and those involved in educating future helping professionals. Sample programs that have been effective are described along with data on causal factors and indepth looks at teen suicide, depression, drugs, eating disorders, gangs, dropping out of school, and special abuse.
Download or read book The Youth Gang Problem written by Irving A. Spergel and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1995 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, who is involved in evaluating Chicago's gang reduction and intervention programs, provides a systematic analysis of youth gangs in the United States and examines the factors of gang member personality, gang dynamics, criminal organization, and the influence of family, school, prisons, and politics.
