Enhancing Children's Wellness

Edited by:

Roger P. Weissberg - University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Thomas P. Gullotta - Child and Family Agency (CT), USA, Child and Family Agency (CT)
Robert L. Hampton - Tennessee State University, United States
Bruce A. Ryan - University of Guelph, Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, Ontario, Canada
Gerald R. Adams - University of Guelph, Canada, Utah State University, USA

Volume: 8

Series:
Issues in Children's and Families' Lives

Other Titles in:
Public Health

May 1997 | 332 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

Aimed at providing a foundation for increasing the quantity and quality of physical and mental health care for children, this book describes the latest research and theories about family, school and community prevention and health-promotion programmes to improve the health status of children during the next decade.

The contributors to this thought-provoking book identify innovative and empirically based preventive and health-promotion strategies that schools and communities can implement to enhance children's social, emotional and physical wellness.

Seymour Sarason

Foreword

Roger P Weissberg and Carol Bartels Kuster

Introduction and Overview

Let's Make `Healthy Children 2010' a National Priority!

Joy G Dryfoos

The Prevalence of Problem Behaviors

Implications for Programs

Linda Dusenbury and Mathea Falco

School-Based Drug Abuse Prevention Strategies

From Research to Policy and Practice

Lynda M Sagrestano and Roberta L Paikoff

Preventing High Risk Sexual Behavior, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and Pregnancy among Adolescents

Mary E Murray, Nancy G Guerra and Kirk R Williams

Violence Prevention for the 21st Century

Bruce E Compas, Jennifer Connor and Martha Wadsworth

Prevention of Depression

John Kalafat

Prevention of Youth Suicide

Cheryl L Perry, Mary Story and Leslie A Lytle

Promoting Healthy Dietary Behaviors

Barbara S Tuchfarber, Joseph E Zins and Leonard A Jason

Prevention and Control of Injuries

J David Hawkins

Academic Performance and School Success

Sources and Consequences

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Roger P. Weissberg

Thomas P. Gullotta

Prevention, Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut, New London, CT. More About Author

Robert L. Hampton

Bruce A. Ryan

Gerald R. Adams

Gerald Adams is a Professor of Family Relations and Human Development. He joined the University of Guelph faculty in 1990. Prior to immigration to Canada, he was a professor and chair of the Department of Family and Human Development at Utah State University. He holds degrees in sociology, education, child psychology, human development and family studies. More About Author

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