CiNii Books - Improving children's lives : global perspectives on prevention

This is not a book that will tell the reader how to treat tuberculosis or diarrhea in the Third World. It is not a book the nurse will use to assign nursing diagnosis to her client's problems. It is a book for those who hunger for new ways of thinking about children and health care systems. It is a book for those who see or need to see the people of the world as interconnected. It is a book for people who want fuel for their own ideas about promoting psychological and physical health of children. --Journal of Pediatric Nursing "The contributors in the volume are distinguished, often leaders in their fields. They come from many countries, including the former Soviet Union, western and eastern Europe, Egypt, India, Ghana, Mexico, and from international organizations such as UNICEF and Worldwatch. They represent different disciplines, including education, the social sciences, public health, and the humanities. . . . The reader who is interested in certain places, as I was, will be rewarded." --Lewis Aptekar, review in World Psychology An international team of scholars, practitioners, educators, and policymakers from multiple and diverse nations analyzes the successes, failures, obstacles, and possibilities for promoting healthier development and well-being among children. They examine the myriad problems encountered by today's youth and offer compelling discussions on a variety of issues, both common and unique. They present numerous prevention and intervention proposals for promoting healthier environments for children worldwide. The topics covered include sources of stress in children's lives, the growing division between the world of the wealthy and the world of the poverty-stricken, multilevel systems approaches to prevention, educational systems intervention, prevention and reduction of aggression and conduct disorders, social policies for youth, and the rights of children. Improving Children's Lives is a vital resource for psychologists, psychiatrists, mental health professionals, social workers, educators, and policymakers interested in making an impact on the lives of children everywhere.

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PART ONE: EPIDEMIOLOGY OF DISTRESS AND RISK Barriers to the Primary Prevention of Mental, Neurological, and Psychosocial Disorders of Children - Morton Kramer A Global Perspective Life on the Brink - Alan Durning An Epidemiological Study of Mental Disorders During Early Childhood in the Soviet Union - O V Bazhenova et al One Little Girl - George W Albee PART TWO: SOURCES OF STRESS: PARENTING, POVERTY, SEXISM, WAR Improving Children's Lives - Araba Sefa-Dedeh The Case for Primary Prevention in Ghana Prevention of Mental Illness in Children in the Third World Countries - Syed Arshad Husain A Pakistani Perspective The Impact of Women's Health and Status on Children's Health and Lives in the Developing World - Mawaheb El-Mouelhy Children Born from Unwanted Pregnancies - Zdenek Dytrych Prevention of Psychological Subdeprivation Making a Dangerous World More Tolerable for Children - Milton Schwebel Implications of Research on Reactions to the Nuclear War Threat, War, and Disaster Endangered Children in Thailand - Chok C Hiew Third World Families Affected by Socioeconomic Changes PART THREE: MULTILEVEL SYSTEMS APPROACHES TO PREVENTION Primary Prevention of Mental Disorders and Mental Health Promotion in Europe - Clemens M H Hosman Developments and Possibilities for Innovation Empowerment and Social Change - Wolfgang Stark Health Promotion Within the Healthy Cities Project of WHO - Steps Toward a Participative Prevention Program The Dutch Way of Prevention - Henk Verburg et al A Multimodal Approach to Prevention - Nomita Sonty A Review of India's Integrated Child Development Scheme Huckleberry Finn and Street Youth Everywhere - Forrest B Tyler et al An Approach to Primary Prevention PART FOUR: EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS INTERVENTIONS Two School-Based Approaches to Promoting Children's Social Competence - Victor A Battistich, Maurice J Elias and Leslie R Branden-Muller Personality Development and Academic Improvement for School Children in India - K V Kaliappan Quality of Life in Families With Mentally Retarded Children - Irena Obuchowska and Michael Obuchowski Promoting Independence and Acceptance Fostering Parental Competence in Poland - Helena Sek, Agnieszka Bleja and Aleksandra Sommerfeld PART FIVE: PREVENTION AND REDUCTION OF AGGRESSION AND CONDUCT DISORDERS Television Violence - Max W Abbott A Proactive Prevention Campaign Victimization Among Schoolchildren - Dan Olweus Intervention and Prevention New Directions in Research in the Prevention of Conduct Disorder - Doreen Spilton Koretz and Joyce Barham Lazar PART SIX: REFLECTIONS ON YOUTH Saving Children Means Social Revolution - George W Albee Infecting Our Children With Hostility - Kenneth B Clark Youth as Resources - John A Calhoun A New Paradigm in Social Policy for Youth Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Michael Dorris A Parent's Perspective Mexico's Challenge - Beatriz Rivera de Tarrab, Patricia Ortega-Andeane and Jorge Manuel Velasco-Alzaga Facing a Growing Youth Population PART SEVEN: LOOKING AHEAD The Rights of the Child - Brian L Wilcox and Hedwin Naimark Progress Toward Human Dignity UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Unofficial Summary of Articles

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