Improving Children's Lives

Emeritus

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