About the Book
This book draws together a collection of studies that have employed experimental approaches for evaluating intervention programs designed to prevent antisocial behaviors. Biological, social, emotional, and cognitive approaches are covered. Interventions aimed at infancy, childhood, and adolescence are included, as are those designed for families, schools, and communities. Some target general populations at risk, while others focus on individuals. In presenting variety along so many dimensions, this book provides practitioners, scholars, and students with a broad perspective on socialization. This book is a valuable resource for clinical psychologists, professional social workers, criminologists, sociologists, child psychiatrists, child care workers and community nurses. It also serves as a text for advanced studies in these disciplines.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Introduction. Robins, The Role of Prevention Experiments in Discovering Causes of Children's Antisocial Behavior. Part II: Prevention Experiments During Infancy and Early Childhood. >Booth, Spieker, Barnard & Morisset, Infants at Risk. Levenstein, The Mother?Child Home Program. Weikart & Schweinhart, High/Scope Preschool Program Outcomes. Part III: Prevention Experiments During the Middle Years. Dupaul & Barkley, Social Interactions of Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Tremblay, Vitaro, Bertrand, LeBlanc, Beauchesne, Boileau, & David, Parent and Child Training to Prevent Early Onset of Delinquency. Hawkins, Catalano, Morrison, O'Donnell, Abbott, & Day, The Seattle School Development Project. Kellam & Rebok, Building Etiological Theory Through Developmental Epidemiologically Based Preventive Intervention Trials. McCord, The Cambridge?Somerville Study. Part IV: Prevention Experiments During Adolescence.O'Donnell, The Interplay of Theory and Practice in Delinquency Prevention. Feldman, The St. Louis Experiment. Dishion, Patterson & Kavanagh, An Experimental Test of the Coercion Model. Arbuthnot, Sociomoral Reasoning in Behavior?Disordered Adolescents. Gottfredson & Gottfredson, Theory?Guided Investigation. Land, McCall & Williams, Intensive Supervision of Status Offenders. Farrington, The Need for Longitudinal?Experimental Research on Offending and Antisocial Behavior.
About the Author :
Joan McCord, PhD, Dept. of Criminal Justice, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA .
Review :
"This volume may well become a classic in its field, and should become required reading for prevention researchers and anyone considering doing prevention research....Clinicians will find it of value as well, because of the detailed descriptions of a variety of comprehensive prevention programs designed to be implemented with infants, children, or adolescents." --Robert J. McMahon, Ph.D.
"The subject of this book is of obvious interest to prevention strategists as well as to clinicians, mental health consultants to schools, and family social service and governmental agencies. Staff advisers to elected officials would find the research findings useful in formulation of legislative proposals." --Hospital and Community Psychiatry
"Their text is logical and developmental in organization....Would be extremely useful to proposal writers seeking external funding for grants and child and adolescent program directors who are designing programs and conducting outcome evaluations. McCord and Tremblay have done an excellent job in compiling research studies designed to prevent antisocial behavior that have highlighted the complexity of antisocial behavior, the absence of a magic bullet intervention, and the critical need to use research evaluation as an important component in future research efforts." --"Contemporary Psychology"
"This book should play a predominant role in shaping experimental research on the development of antisocial and delinquent behavior....There can be no doubt that this book will be widely read, because it contains the research upon which the next set of intervention for antisocial behavior will be built." --"Contemporary Sociology"
