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Featuring more than 100 exercises that develop young people's capabilities, this book analyzes the concepts central to effective after-school programs. It offers developmental, cognitive, and social ecology perspectives on how children learn.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of how communities can leverage their social capital to improve overall quality of life for citizens. In addition, it offers detailed guidance on the design, implementation, and evaluation of social capital initiatives. It defines critical concepts of social capital, its decline in recent years, and the potential for rebuilding it through progressive social policy initiatives. Chapters present an innovative social policy template, Serve Here, for improving Americans' collective quality of life, starting with young adults. Serve Here sets out a comprehensive, sustainable service learning plan aimed at increasing quality higher education for young adults, reducing college debt, and enhancing long-term civic participation and community building. The book offer guidelines for developing tailored solutions to ensure greater parity of social capital to regional, demographic, and other marginalized populations.Featured topics include:The civic value of social capital.The economics of social capital in communities.Building social capital across communities by leveraging personal relationships.Social capital and returning military veterans.Millennials and social capital. Teaching the social entrepreneurs of tomorrow.Social Capital and Community Well-Being: The Serve Here Initiative is a valuable resource for clinicians and practitioners as well as researchers and graduate students in community psychology, social work, education, and healthcare policy.

This text on enhancing children's wellness describes research and theories about family, school and community prevention and health-promotion programmes. It identifies empirically based preventive and health promotion strategies to enhance children's social, emotional and physical wellness.

This text identifies empirically based strategies needed to strengthen the environments in which children develop. It also explores the importance of theory-guided evaluation in clarifying the process of programme implementation and highlights strategies for disseminating programmes effectively.

Both the positive and the negative circumstances that confront children and young people living in cities are examined in this volume, which identifies the best researched-based solutions for improving these circumstances.The contributors explore topics such as: factors that have influenced inner-city life - migration patterns and middle-class flights from cities and ghettos; the role of coping, resources and skills in an urban family's successful management of stress; community-university partnerships that offer workable solutions to urban children and their families; and the features of homes, schools and communities that promote academic success and healthy psychological development in adverse circumstances. They also

This book explores the ongoing treatment and education needs of children with Asperger Syndrome. It examines a variety of therapeutic, educational, and social skills strategies for use at home as well as in classrooms and other community settings.

This book provides effective strategies that can be used to improve academic achievement and well-being of minority students. The book conceptualizes opportunities and challenges in working with minority children in the context of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

It is clear that violence by youth is not to be found only on city streets, in city schools and among city youth but anywhere and everywhere wrathful, disenfranchised young people reside.

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.

This book provides a solid foundation for understanding violence within the African-American community from the perspective of African Americans. It challenges existing stereotypes of African Americans and offers concrete advice on approaches that are, or might be, effective with African-American populations.

Featuring more than 100 exercises that develop young people's capabilities, this book analyzes the concepts central to effective after-school programs. It offers developmental, cognitive, and social ecology perspectives on how children learn.

Violence in Homes and Communities considers increased contemporary domestic, workplace and community violence, and how it can be prevented.

This text examines how adolescents' problem behaviours develop, and whether there are reliable ways to prevent them. The contributors explore such topics as attention deficit disorder, substance abuse, rape, eating disorders, depression and suicide.

Depression ranks as a leading mental health problem among Hispanic immigrants and their US-born children. In this volume, clinicians, researchers, and academics offer research and clinical findings, reviews and insights gathered from first-hand experience.

This book provides a solid foundation for understanding violence within the African-American community from the perspective of African Americans. It challenges existing stereotypes of African Americans and offers concrete advice on approaches that are, or might be, effective with African-American populations.

The second edition of this book incorporates the latest theory, research, and best practices for understanding, treating, and preventing substance abuse among adolescents. It updates the progress made in treatments for and prevention of the misuse of substances and adds new specific chapters on prescriptions, opiates, and methamphetamine abuse. The book discusses the effects of commonly abused substances, from tobacco and alcohol to stimulants and opioids, on the human brain and the various psychosocial routes to their misuse by adolescents. Chapters provide evidence-based guidelines for assessing adolescent treatment needs and review psychological, pharmacological, family, and self-help interventions. The book offers new paths in diverse directions, analyzes the core components of substance use prevention, critiques emerging school-based interventions, and introduces a nuanced reconceptualization of recovery.Topics featured in the book include:The effect of family and caregiver situations on adolescent substance abuse.A biological/genetic perspective on adolescent substance abuse.School-based preventions and the evolution of evidence-based strategies.The role of adolescent self-help in substance abuse interventions.Community-based interventions to reduce alcohol use and misuse. Adolescent Substance Abuse, Second Edition, is a must-have reference for researchers, clinicians/practitioners, and graduate students in the fields of child and school psychology, social work, public health, developmental psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, and various interrelated mental health and social policy arenas.

This book provides effective strategies that can be used to improve academic achievement and well-being of minority students. The book conceptualizes opportunities and challenges in working with minority children in the context of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

This book is concerned with the sweeping changes that took place in public assistance programs at the end of the 20th century and the way in which the original and reformed versions of these programs relate to the well-being of children and their families.

What is the nature of the relationships between family variables and children's successes in school? An examination of this question is the basis of this volume. Building on a model for evaluating the relationships between families, schools and children, the contributors analyze: how school achievement is influenced by parent-child interactions; how early adolescents are affected by the overlapping `spheres of influence' of school, family, community and peer group; and how family environment influences educational attainment. Other issues discussed include: education for children with learning difficulties; school truancy; and the effects of parental discord and divorce on children's learning. In conclusion, the book offers examples of prevention and intervention.

This book makes a clear, scientific case for exercise, sports and an active lifestyle in preventing illness and teaching lifetime health habits at the individual and population levels. Defines activity, analyzes its benefits and offers effective interventions.

What can be done to address the problem of violence in society? The contributors to this volume, both scholars and practitioners, examine this question by exploring the history of violence together with theoretical explanations.The book discusses such issues as: the disproportionate presence of violence within North American minority populations; the concept of psychological resiliency; how spirituality may serve as a protective factor; and the role of television in promoting violence. The contributors also address prevention and intervention strategies among gangs of young people, and the implementation of special programmes in schools.

This text on enhancing children's wellness describes research and theories about family, school and community prevention and health-promotion programmes. It identifies empirically based preventive and health promotion strategies to enhance children's social, emotional and physical wellness.

Completely rewritten to reflect recent research into family and intimate violence this Second Edition of Family Violence explores the subject from its origins to assessment and treatment. The revision offers a summary of some of the best current scholarship conducted by family researchers.

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.

Offering lucid interpretation of data showing what works, what doesn't and what needs further study, this book probes the criminal justice system, the history of drug treatment for offenders, and the practical problems of program design and implementation.

This text offers clear, interdisciplinary guidance that illuminates the many contexts - developmental, genetic, social, and familial among them - crucial to effective intervention and prevention. Contributors examine current findings on widely used therapies.

It is clear that violence by youth is not to be found only on city streets, in city schools and among city youth but anywhere and everywhere wrathful, disenfranchised young people reside.

Providing insight and advice on young people's moral development, this book states that most forms of human interaction are laden with moral content. It provides recommendations for how adults can offer guidance to young people learning to negotiate life in a global society.