At risk youth
Subtitle: a comprehensive response : for counselors, teachers, psychologists, and human service professionals
By: J. Jeffries McWhirter, Benedict T. McWhirter, Ellen Hawley McWhirter, Robert J. McWhirter
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Belmont, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780840028594; 9781133371625
Subjects: Youth with social disabilities; Counseling of
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-414) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Part. 1. At-risk children and youth : the ecology of problems: An introduction to at-risk issues; title: Environmental/societal factors that contribute to risk; title: Legal and ethical issues. Part 2. Families, schools, and skills: Family Problems of at-risk children and youth; title: school issues that relate to at-risk children and youth; title: Individual characteristics of high-risk and low-risk children and youth. Part 3.  At-risk categories:  School dropout; title: Substance use and addiction; title: Teenage pregnancy, STDs, and risky sexual behavior; title: Juvenile delinquency and youth violence; title: Youth suicide. Part 4. Prevention, intervention, and treatment approaches: Prevention, early intervention, treatment Framework, and other environmental considerations; title: Core components of programs for prevention and early intervention; title: Peer interventions; title: Family interventions.