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    Evidence-Based Approaches to Prevention and Treatment

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Substance abuse is, and has always been, an indisputable fact of life. People – especially young people – abuse various legal and illegal substances for any number of reasons: to intensify feelings, to achieve deeper consciousness, to escape reality, to self-medicate. And as substance-abusing teenagers mature, they pose particular challenges to the professionals charged with keeping them clean and ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Childhood Behavioral Issues

    Evidence-Based Approaches to Prevention and Treatment

    This handbook highlights present-day information and evidence-based knowledge in the field of children’s behavioral health to enable practitioners, families, and others to choose and implement one of many intervention approaches provided. Using a standardized format, best practices for the prevention and treatment of many childhood behavioral disorders are identified based on current research, ... Read more

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  • Family Influences on Childhood Behavior and Development

    Evidence-Based Prevention and Treatment Approaches

    Irrespective of theoretical orientation, families matter. Families are the entity in which children are introduced to words, objects, shapes, and colors. Families are the people related in a myriad of conventional and unconventional ways that clothe, bathe, and feed its biological and acquired offspring. Influenced by race, ethnicity, income, and education, families relate not only to each other ... Read more

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  • Adolescent Substance Abuse

    Evidence-Based Approaches to Prevention and Treatment

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    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 ... Read more

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  • Social Capital and Community Well-Being

    The Serve Here Initiative

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    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 ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Evidence-Based Substance Abuse Treatment in Criminal Justice Settings

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Get high. Become addicted. Commit crimes. Get arrested and be sent to jail. Get released. Repeat. It’s a cycle often destined to persist, in large part because the critical step that is often missing in the process, which is treatment geared toward ensuring that addicts are able to reenter society without the constant threat of imminent relapse.The Handbook of Evidence-Based Substance Abuse ... Read more

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  • A Blueprint for Promoting Academic and Social Competence in After-School Programs

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    School activities alone are not always sufficient to ensure children’s academic progress or socio-emotional development and well-being. And the time when many children typically have the least adult supervision – immediately after school – is also the time that they are at the highest risk to act as perpetrators or become victims of antisocial behavior.Throughout A Blueprint for Promoting Academic ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Adolescent Behavioral Problems

    Evidence-Based Approaches to Prevention and Treatment

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The Second Edition of the Handbook of Adolescent Behavioral Problems clarifies the current state of treatment and prevention through comprehensive examinations of mental disorders and dysfunctional behaviors as well as the varied forces affecting their development. New or revised chapters offer a basic framework for approaching mental health concerns in youth and provide the latest information on ... Read more

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    The statistics are disturbing: steadily rising numbers of sedentary overweight children and obese teens, and a generation looking at a shorter life expectancy than their parents’. But while it may be obvious that physical fitness benefits both the mind and body, a growing research base is supplying evidence of why this is so, and how these benefits may be reproduced in greater numbers.Physical ... Read more

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  • Depression in Latinos

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    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Depression ranks as a leading mental health problem among Hispanic immigrants and their US-born children. And a wide array of issues - starting with the widespread stereotype of the “illegal immigrant” - makes the Latino experience of this condition differ from that of any other group. Depression in Latinos consolidates the conceptual, diagnostic, and clinical knowledge based on this salient topic ... Read more

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  • Asperger Syndrome

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    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Asperger Syndrome: A Guide for Professionals and Families integrates the latest evidence-based research from leading scholars and examples from those working with this population in non-university settings with personal practical advice from a mother whose adolescent has Asperger Syndrome and from a young man who has Asperger Syndrome.Asperger Syndrome is a life-long condition that requires long ... Read more

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