NCJ Number
146059
Editor(s)
E Corfman
Date Published
1979
Length
535 pages
Annotation
This compilation of articles focuses on ways of strengthening families in distress and intervening with children at risk.
Abstract
Specific topics covered in the articles concern antisocial children as adults, preschool intervention for children at risk, runaways, physical violence in families, child abuse, mental illness, training for parents of psychotic children, parent skills, foster parents, and social learning techniques for parents of difficult children. The articles explore antisocial personality traits and causes of antisocial behavior, effects of parental discipline on antisocial behavior, the prevention of pathological behavior in children, adult experiences of runaways, factors affecting parental violence, violence by husbands against wives, violence by wives against husbands, and violence prevention. In addition, the articles look at child abuse victims, child sexual abuse, child abuse treatment, the role of heredity in mental illness (schizophrenia and depression), child psychosis, developmental therapy for psychotic children and their parents, parental involvement with children at risk, training for parents of foster children, and a social learning approach for parents who have difficult children. References and tables