Risk and resilience in childhood : an ecological perspective /

Fraser Mark W.

Risk and resilience in childhood : an ecological perspective / Mark W. Fraser, editor. - Washington, D.C. : NASW Press, c1997. - xi, 295 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.


Table of contents


1. The ecology of childhood: A multisystem perspective 1
2. Risk and resilience in childhood 10
3. Methods in the analysis of risk and protective factors: Lessons from epidemiology 34
4. Risk and protective factors in child maltreatment 50
5. Attention deficiency and hyperactivity 73
6. School failure: An ecological-interactional developmental perspective 95
7. Risk and productive factors for alcohol and other drug use in childhood and adolescence 117
8. Risk and protective factors in the development of delinquency and conduct disorder 140
9. Preventing sexually transmitted infections among adolescents 171
10. Adolescents pregnancy: Multisystem risk and protective factors 195
11. Childhood depression: A risk factor perspective 220
12. Promoting the development of young children with disabilities 244
13. Toward a resilience-based model of practice 265
Index 277
About the editor 291
About the contributor 293








Includes bibliographical references and index.

087101274X (pbk.)

96006538


Problem children--United States.
Social work with children--United States.

362.74 / FRA