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New edition of a text that provides up-to-date research and information on at-risk categories. Thirteen chapters discuss factors that contribute to school dropout, substance use, teen pregnancy, delinquency and violence, and youth suicide; interventions appropriate for children and adolescents as well as strategies that focus on the family; and legal concerns important to human service professionals. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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This timely book addresses one of the biggest single problems facing society today--at-risk behavior in one quarter of our nation's youth--and provides strategies for prevention and treatment that can be implemented in the schools, in the homes, and by helping professionals in a variety of settings. Whether the term "at risk" is associated with a local school district's problems with child and adolescent suicide and school dropouts, the correction system's concerns about juvenile delinquency, or the health system's concerns with teen pregnancy, child abuse, and AIDS, the individuals labeled at-risk need the ongoing help of professional--and this book can set the stage.
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