Product Description: This volume, an edition supported by the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), contains selected papers from the Symposium of the WPA Section of Preventive Psychiatry - held during the 10th World Congress of Psychiatry - together with invited papers by worldwide renowned experts in psychiatric prevention...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A volume which aims to present wide-ranging coverage of the subject of prevention of mental illness. Contributions from an international team discuss theoretical aspects of mental health promotion and prevention together with their application within the framework of primary current mental health policies and research initiatives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The successes, failures, obstacles and possibilities for promoting healthier development and well-being among children around the world are considered in this volume. The many physical and psychological problems, both common and unique, that face young people are considered...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Aims to provide mental health and paediatric professionals with the knowledge and skills derived from clinical research that will enable them to promote healthy development and adjustment, and help to prevent the mental, emotional, and psycho-physiological disturbances that afflict children...read more

Product Description: This volume presents a group of exemplary prevention programmes, documents their accomplishments and provides models for the future development of other programmes. Each of the contributors has gone beyond the stage of theorising and model building to translate ideas into fully operating programmes which have been evaluated and demonstrated to be effective...read more

Product Description: Book by Joffe, Justin M.