This report calls on the nation—its leaders, its mental health research and service provision
agencies, its schools, its primary care medical systems, its community-based organizations …

Recent studies have confirmed that repeated wartime deployment of a parent exacts a toll
on military children and families and that the quality and functionality of familial relations is …

This book presents a multilevel intervention and prevention program for at-risk adolescents
and their families. Grounded in over 15 years of important clinical and developmental …

Using both historical and contemporary contexts, The Child Welfare Challenge examines
major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its …

This book is for those who believe that good government should be based on hard
evidence, and that research and policy ought to go hand-in-hand. Unfortunately, no such …

Mental health interventions for children and adolescents often flow from adult clinical models
that emphasize change at the individual level. Yet, to accomplish long-lasting change for …

OBJECTIVE:: To describe the growth of developmental epidemiology in the past decade and
to illustrate it with examples of recent studies. METHOD:: A review of publications on …

Empowerment has become an influential concept and theoretical framework for social policy
and practice. Still, relatively little is known about the roles that empowerment plays in the …

The Family Check-Up (FCU) is a brief, family-centered intervention focused on family-
management practices. Within the context of a randomly assigned, multilevel family …

The present study evaluated the efficacy of a multicomponent, classroom-based intervention
in reducing preschoolers' behavior problems. The Chicago School Readiness Project model …