Fraser, Mark W. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Summary
Using a risk and resilience orientation, this text offers a diverse interdisciplinary perspective and practice
guidelines for designing and implementing interventions across a wide range of social and health problems in childhood
and adolescence for practitioners, students, and parents. Leading scholars from a variety of academic, political,
and professional disciplines critically review literature in physical abuse, drugs, pregnancy, gangs, mental disorders,
and other areas of child and adolescent practice to advocate change in child outcomes.
Highlights:
Case illustrations, additional reading lists, charts/tables on various interventions, and practice guidelines
set this book apart from its competitors.
All chapters review the essential topics of risk and resilience orientation, the incidence and prevalence of
social and health problems, gender and culture sensitive intervention, and protective factors and strengths.
Introductions to every chapter, end-of-chapter problems, and correlated readings introduce and allow students
to further explore each issue of child and adolescent intervention.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction, Paula Allen-Meares, Mark Fraser.
2. Contributions of Risk Research to the Design of Successful Interventions, Arnold J. Sameroff, Leslie Morrison
Gutman.
3. Ethnicity and Culture, Oscar Barbarin, Terry McCandies, Cheri Coleman, Tamara Atkinson.
4. Gender Differences in Childhood and Adolescence, Cathryn C. Potter
5. Social Work Practice with Gay and Lesbian Children and Adolescents, John F. Longres, William S. Etnyre.
6. Interventions and Children in Poverty, Miriam Linver, AllisonSidle Fuligni, Magdalena Hernandez, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn.
7. Prevention and Treatment Strategies Targeting Physical Child Abuse and Neglect, Neil B. Guterman, Richard A.
Embry.
8. Child and Adolescent Sexual Abuse, Sandra J. Kaplan.
9. School-Based Interventions for Students with Emotional/ Behavioral Disorders, K. Richard Young, Michelle Marchant,
Lynn K. Wilder.
10. Autistic Spectrum Disorders: Assessment and Intervention, Mark C. Holter.
11. Treatment and Early Intervention for Schizophrenia, Carol T. Mowbray, Debbie Gioia-Hasick.
12. Depression During the School-Aged Years, Daphna Oyserman.
13. Prevention and Intervention in Youth Suicide, Mark J. Macgowan.
14. What Can be Done to Prevent and Assist School Dropouts? Russell W. Rumberger.
15. The Prevention and Treatment of Adolescent Drug Abuse, Kenneth W. Griffin, Gilbert J. Botvin.
16. AIDS/STD Prevention for U.S. Adolescents, Mary L. Rogers Gillmore.
17. Lost Childhoods: Risk and Resiliency Among Runaway and Homeless Adolescents,Kimberly A. Tyler, Les B. Whitbeck.
18. Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting: A Bio-Psychosocial Framework, Jacqueline Corcoran, Cynthia Franklin.
19. Bullying and Peer Victimization in Schools, Ron Avi Astor, Rami Benbenishty, Ronald O. Pitner, Heather Ann
Meyer.
20. Review of Research on Predictors of Youth Violence and School Based and Community Based Prevention Approaches,
Todd J. Herrenkohl, Ick-Joong Chung, Richard F. Catalano.
21. Adolescent Sex Offenders: Characteristics, Prevention and Treatment, William D. Murphy, I. Jacqueline Page,
Melissa Hoffman.
22. Youth Gangs: Prevention and Intervention, James C. Howell.
23. Eating Disorders: Prevention and Intervention Strategies with Children and Adolescents, Roslyn B. Binford,
Melissa Pederson Mussell, Lisa Rogers, Joy L. Johnson-Lind, Kathryn B. Miller.
