14 ounces of prevention : a casebook for practitioners / Richard H. Price ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Price, Richard H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness--Prevention.

Mental illness.

Physical Description:

vi, 191 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Other Title:

Fourteen ounces of prevention.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [1988]

Contents:

Section I. Early Childhood Programs

1. The Prenatal/Early Infancy Project / David L. Olds

2. The Brookline Early Education Project / Donald E. Pierson

3. Early Intervention for High-Risk Children: The Carolina Early Intervention Program / Craig T. Ramey, Donna M. Bryant, Frances A. Campbell, Joseph J. Sparling, Barbara H. Wasik

4. Primary Prevention of Behavior Problems in Young Children: The Houston Parent-Child Development Center / Dale L. Johnson

5. The High/Scope Perry Preschool Program / Lawrence J. Schweinhart, David P. Weikart

Section II. Prevention Programs for Children and Youth

6. Interpersonal Cognitive Problem Solving / Myrna B. Shure, George Spivack

7. Assertiveness Training With Children / Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus

8. Preventing Adolescent Substance Abuse Through Life Skills Training / Gilbert J. Botvin, Stephanie Tortu

9. The School Transitional Environment Project: An Ecological Intervention and Evaluation / Robert D. Felner, Angela M. Adan

10. The Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency: Diversion From the Juvenile Justice System / William S. Davidson II, Robin Redner

Section III. Prevention Programs for Adults and the Elderly

11. The Perceived Personal Control Preventive Intervention for a Caesarean Birth Population / Ciporah S. Tadmor

12. The Colorado Separation and Divorce Program: A Preventive Intervention Program for Newly Separated Persons / Bernard L. Bloom, William F. Hodges

13. Disease Prevention in Communities: The Stanford Heart Disease Prevention Program / Nathan Maccoby, David G. Altman

14. Widow-to-Widow: A Mutual Help Program for the Widowed / Phyllis R. Silverman

Afterword Model Prevention Programs: Epilogue and Future Prospects / Richard H. Price, Emory L. Cowen, Raymond P. Lorion, Julia Ramos-McKay.

Notes:

Title on added t.p.: Fourteen ounces of prevention.

Includes bibliographies.

ISBN:

1557980365

OCLC:

17875228