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