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Annotation: This book discusses adolescent suicide intervention and assessment strategies for use in schools. It provides information on: the incidence of youth suicide; stressors as factors in suicide; risk assessment including an overview of warning signs and symptoms of suicidal tendencies and depression; interventions specifically occurring in the school setting; the use of the school suicide crisis team; and suicide risk of particular adolescent populations: minorities, homosexuals and lesbians, youth with eating disorders, and college students. An extensive bibliography is provided.

Keywords: Adolescents, Crisis intervention, Mental health, Risk assessment, School based programs, Suicide, Suicide prevention, Youth

Annotation: This annotated bibliography contains abstracts of journal articles, reports, book chapters, and monographs that focus on child abuse prevention and family preservation in African American communities.

Keywords: Bibliographies, Blacks, Child abuse, Child neglect, Counseling, Crisis intervention, Cultural diversity, Family preservation, Family violence, Folk medicine, Injury prevention, Mental health, Sexual abuse

Annotation: This handbook, for individuals working in schools, provides straightforward guidelines for crisis intervention and prevention techniques designed specifically for the school setting. Covering individual child-centered crises such as abuse, divorce, family violence, and suicide, as well as larger school or community-based crises such as serious bus accidents, in-school violence, and natural disasters, the book features case studies and personal reactions from all levels of school personnel. It also includes sample handouts for parents, students, and teachers, lists of community networking resources, and sample 'to-do' lists for every potential member of a crisis team.

Keywords: Child abuse, Child neglect, Crisis intervention, Family violence, Injuries, Injury prevention, Mental health services, Motor vehicle injuries, School buses, School personnel, Schools, Violence prevention

Annotation: This report presents the findings of an inspection of 13 service agencies in 9 states made to identify innovative and/or effective initiatives that public and private agencies have undertaken to integrate services at the community level. These agencies provide services for dysfunctional or multi-problem children and families in inner city. The report reviews how and why the agencies did or did not integrate services and provides descriptions of the agencies that were inspected.

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Keywords: Community health services, Crisis intervention, Dysfunctional families, Family support services, Program evaluation, Service integration, Urban population

Annotation: This book traces the development of programs that strive to prevent foster care placements by working with families in crisis. Chapters focus on descriptions and evaluations of intensive family preservation service (IFPS) programs, such as the Homebuilders Model. The characteristics of IFPS programs are compared with other types of family-based (FBS) and home-based (HBS) services. These discussions include findings, especially placement rates, from program studies. Detailed descriptions of treatment strategies and therapists' experiences precede discussions of policy implications for family preservation programs.

Keywords: Cost effectiveness, Crisis intervention, Culturally competent services, Family preservation, Family support services, Foster care, Intervention, Outcome evaluation, Statistics, Treatment outcome

Annotation: This report is part of a series of monthly seminars entitled Family-Centered Social Policy: The Emerging Agenda, conducted by the Family Impact Seminar. The report focuses on family preservation and addresses the following questions: What is the impetus behind the growing proliferation of family preservation programs? What are the goals and methods of family preservation programs? How successful are they? How are states moving to replicate and institutionalize these new approaches to children's services? What is the federal role in these developments? Copies of the background briefing reports are also included.

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Keywords: Child health, Child welfare, Crisis intervention, Families, Family therapy, Foster care, Intervention, Mental health

Annotation: This manual provides a comprehensive approach to developing a youth suicide prevention and intervention program within a community. Components of prevention programs for communities and schools are outlined. Characteristics of youth suicide such as risks, warning signs, and assessment are discussed. An intervention model, techniques, and strategies are presented along with the four phases of a suicide crisis. The final part of the manual focuses on postvention, handling the consequences of a successful youth suicide. An extensive bibliography is also provided.

Keywords: Adolescents, Community programs, Crisis intervention, Mental health, Prevention programs, Suicide, Suicide prevention, Youth

Annotation: This monograph contains articles on various aspects of adolescent suicide. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the problem of adolescent suicide, examining profiles of suicide attempters and completers, suicide myths, and aspects of suicide prevention. Chapter 2 examines the concept of sex differences in adolescents' attitudes toward suicide and their responses to peers who contemplate suicide. Chapters 3 and 4 provide examples of ways educators play a crucial role in reducing adolescents' sense of isolation. Chapter 5 examines special cases, such as suicidal behavior among 'normal' high school students, and adolescent suicide clusters after exposure to television news stories.

Keywords: Adolescent attitudes, Adolescent behavior, Adolescents, Crisis intervention, Peer groups, Psychosocial development, School personnel, Suicide, Suicide prevention

Annotation: This book, evolving from work done on an NCCAN grant at Penn State University, is based on an in-depth study of 64 families from 1981 through 1983, conducted to understand the origin, dynamics and outcomes of abuse and neglect in the lives of the adolescents involved. This 'Family Intervention Project' investigated psychological and social aspects of two-parent families coping with adolescents' behavior, ranging from normal to seriously pathological. The study focused on the degree to which parent adolescent relations were at risk for emotional or physical abuse. The book provides some theories concerning adolescent maltreatment, and concerning child abuse and juvenile delinquency. The concept of high risk is presented and defined as are the measurement tools for determining that high risk and the resulting characteristics of high risk families. Factors of adolescent competence, behavior problems, socioeconomic stress, changes in family structure (as in step-families) are explored. Current interventions, prevention strategies with parents, support strategies for adolescents are discussed. Future prospects and programs for intervention are presented along with current evaluations or indicated needs for evaluation. A final chapter discusses the investigators' prognosis for troubled adolescents in troubled families.

Keywords: Adolescents, Alcohol abuse, Behavioral sciences, Child abuse, Clinical medicine, Counseling, Crisis intervention, Drug abuse, Family violence, Injury prevention, Physical abuse, Research, Risk factors, Socioeconomic status, Survey tools

Annotation: This book is based on the proceedings of the Public Health Social Work Institute held at Berkeley in June 1978. It discusses prevention of undesirable consequences in pregnancy; species specific patterns of human reproductive behavior; alternative birthing; interplay between nutritional and psychosocial factors of child development; high school based child care settings; immunization; health needs of adolescents; adolescence and contraception; adolescence and venereal disease; adolescent family planning; peer sex education; chronic disease; crisis intervention; the educational, professional, and policy perspectives of prevention; autogenic training; prevention of obesity in children and adolescents; and early maternal infant bonding. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Service]

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Keywords: Adolescents, Alternative birth styles, Bonding, Child care services, Child development, Children, Chronic illnesses and disabilities, Contraception, Crisis intervention, Family planning, Health, High schools, Immunization, Mother child relations, Nutrition, Obesity, Peer education, Pregnancy, Psychosocial development, Reproductive behavior, Sexual behavior, Sexually transmitted diseases, Social workers