Social work and child services /

"This work brings together the results of studies of child services from diverse countries and cultures and covers a broad array of topical issues and social work interventions, including adolescent emotional health, children of substance abusers, childhood depression and teenage suicide, child...

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Other Authors: Palmer, Sharon Duca, 1965-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakville, Ont. : Apple Academic Press, c2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • New estimates of the number of children living with substance misusing parents: results from UK national household surveys / Victoria Manning, David W. Best, Nathan Faulkner and Emily Titherington
  • Supporting adolescent emotional health in schools: a mixed methods study of student and staff views in England / Judi Kidger, Jenny L. Donovan, Lucy Biddle, Rona Campbell and David Gunnell
  • Depressive symptoms from kindergarten to early school age: longitudinal associations with social skills deficits and peer victimization / Sonja Perren and Franc̜oise D. Alsaker
  • Exploring the impact of the baby-friendly hospital initiative on trends in exclusive breastfeeding / Sheryl W. Abrahams and Miriam H. Labbock
  • Perception of neighborhood safety and reported childhood lifetime asthma in the United States (U.S.): a study based on a national survey / S.V. Subramanian and Malinda H. Kennedy
  • Environmental factors influence language development in children with autism spectrum disorders / Marine Grandgeorge, Martine Hausberger, Sylvie Torjman, Michel Deleau, Alain Lazartigues and Eric Lemonnier
  • Interactions of socioeconomic position with psychosocial and environmental correlates of children's physical activity: an observational study of South Australian families / James Dollman and Nicole R. Leeis
  • Associations among parental feeding styles and children's food intake in families with limited incomes / Sharon L. Hoerr, Sheryl O. Hughes, Jennifer O. Fisher, Theresa A. Nicklas, Yan Liu, and Richard M. Shewchuk
  • A pilot study evaluating a support programme for parents of young people with suicidal behaviour / Lorna Power, Sophia Morgan, Sinead Byrne, Carole Boylan, Andreé Carthy, Sinead Crowley, Carol Fitzpatrick and Suzanne Guerin
  • Assessment of intensity, prevalence and duration of everyday activities in Swiss school children: a cross-sectional analysis of accelerometer and diary data / Bettina Bringgolf-Isler. Leticia Grize, Urs Mäder, Nicole Ruch, Felix H. Sennhauser and Charlotte Braun-Fahrländer
  • The specificity and the development of social-emotional competence in a multi-ethnic-classroom / Katja Petrowski, Ulf Harold, Peter Joraschky, Agnes von Wyl and Manfred Cierpka
  • Adolescents' experience of comments about their weight-prevalence, accuracy and effects on weight misperception / Wing-Sze Lo, Sai-Yin Ho, Kwok-Kei Mak, Yuen-Kwan Lai and Tai-Hing Lam
  • Children's liking and wanting of snack products: influence of shape and flavour / Djin G Liem and Liesbeth H. Zandstra
  • Preventing delinquency through improved child protection services / Richard Wiebush, Raelene Freitag, and Christopher Baird
  • Parents' assessment of parent-child interaction interventions--a longitudinal study in 101families / Kerstin Neander and Ingemar Engström.