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Title At-risk youth : a comprehensive response : for counselors, teachers, psychologists, and human service professionals / J. Jeffries McWhirter .. [and others]..

Publication Info. Belmont, CA : Thomson Brooks/Cole, [2007]
©2007

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  362.74 A861A    Check Shelf
Edition Fourth edition.
Description xvii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-356) and indexes.
Contents An introduction to at-risk issues -- Environmental/societal factors that contribute to risk -- Legal and ethical issues -- Family problems of at-risk children and youth -- School issues that relate to at-risk children and youth -- Individual characteristics of high-risk and low-risk children and youth -- School dropout -- Substance use and addiction -- Teenage pregnancy and risky sexual behavior -- Antisocial behavior, delinquency, and youth gangs -- Youth suicide -- A prevention, early intervention, treatment framework and other environmental considerations -- Core components of programs for prevention and early intervention -- Peer interventions -- Family interventions.
Subject Youth with social disabilities -- United States.
Youth with social disabilities -- Counseling of -- United States.
Added Author McWhirter, J. Jeffries.
ISBN 0534272363
9780534272364
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