""Jenson, Fraser and their impressive contributors have provided us with something all too rare in the child & family services literature: a truly integrative volume. They argue cogently for a cross-systems perspective, an orientation to developmental "risk" & "protective" factors and a strategic process for identifying most favorable targets for ...
Special Features- Summarizes and distills for social work practice the latest research on risk factors for childhood problems.- Devotes a full chapter to suicidal behaviors among youth.- Describes how to tailor interventions on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation.
A summary of research on risk, protection and resilience in the context of youth violence and its implications for practice with children and families. It describes an emerging framework for understanding social and health problems and for developing more effective programmes for interventions.
Using a risk and resilience orientation, Intervention with Children and Adolescents distills evidence-based studies into practice guidelines for designing and implementing interventions across a wide range of social and health problems in childhood and adolescence. Leading scholars from nearly two dozen fields of practice share their wisdom as ...
Propensity Score Matching provides readers with a systematic review of the origins, history, and statistical foundations of PSM and illustrates how to use PSM methods for solving evaluation problems. With a strong focus on practical applications, the authors explore various types of data and evaluation problems, strategies for using the methods, ...
When social workers draw on experience, theory, or data in order to develop new strategies or enhance existing ones, they are conducting intervention research. This relatively new field involves program design, implementation, and evaluation and requires a theory-based, systematic approach. Intervention Research presents such a framework. The five ...
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Mark Twain, John Elderkin, Chester Sanders Lord, Horatio N. Fraser, Charles W. Price, N.Y.) Lotos Club (New York, Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress)
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