Thomas P. Gullotta is CEO of the Child and Family Agency and is a member of the faculty at Eastern Connecticut State University. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Primary Prevention. He serves as a general series book editor for Advances in Adolescent Development, and is the senior book series editor for Issues in Children’s and Families’ Lives. In addition, he serves as the monograph series editor for Prevention in Practice. Gullotta holds editorial appointments on the Journal of Early Adolescence, Adolescence, and the Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation. He serves on the Board of the National Mental Health Association and works frequently as a consultant for several branches of the U.S. Federal Government on issues relating to young people and primary prevention. He has published extensively on adolescents and primary prevention.
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The second edition of this book incorporates the latest theory, research, and best practices for understanding, treating, and preventing substance abuse among adolescents.  It updates the progress made in treatments for and prevention of the misuse of substances...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-08-25
Collection : Issues in Children's and Families' Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  Social Capital and Community Well-Being

This book provides a comprehensive overview of how communities can leverage their social capital to improve overall quality of life for citizens. In addition, it offers detailed guidance on the design, implementation, and evaluation of social capital initiatives. It...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-07-27
Collection : Issues in Children's and Families' Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  Handbook of Adolescent Behavioral Problems

The Second Edition of the Handbook of Adolescent Behavioral Problems clarifies the current state of treatment and prevention through comprehensive examinations of mental disorders and dysfunctional behaviors as well as the varied forces affecting their development. New...
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Parution : 2014-10-14

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Télécharger le livre :  Physical Activity Across the Lifespan

The statistics are disturbing: steadily rising numbers of sedentary overweight children and obese teens, and a generation looking at a shorter life expectancy than their parents’. But while it may be obvious that physical fitness benefits both the mind and body, a...
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Parution : 2012-06-15
Collection : Issues in Children's and Families' Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  Handbook of Evidence-Based Substance Abuse Treatment in Criminal Justice Settings

Get high. Become addicted. Commit crimes.Get arrested and be sent to jail.Get released. Repeat. It’s a cycle often destined to persist, in large part because the critical step that is often missing in the process, which is treatment geared toward ensuring that addicts...
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Parution : 2011-08-28
Collection : Issues in Children's and Families' Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  A Blueprint for Promoting Academic and Social Competence in After-School Programs

School activities alone are not always sufficient to ensure children’s academic progress or socio-emotional development and well-being. And the time when many children typically have the least adult supervision – immediately after school – is also the time that they are...
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Parution : 2010-06-25
Collection : Issues in Children's and Families' Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  Adolescent Substance Abuse

Substance abuse is, and has always been, an indisputable fact of life. People – especially young people – abuse various legal and illegal substances for any number of reasons: to intensify feelings, to achieve deeper consciousness, to escape reality, to self-medicate....
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Parution : 2010-04-02
Collection : Issues in Children's and Families' Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  Depression in Latinos

Depression ranks as a leading mental health problem among Hispanic immigrants and their US-born children. And a wide array of issues - starting with the widespread stereotype of the “illegal immigrant” - makes the Latino experience of this condition differ from that of...
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Parution : 2009-04-05
Collection : Issues in Children's and Families' Lives
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As we enter the new millennium, promoting sound mental health and positive behavior of adolescents has undeniably taken on greater significance than ever before. To that end, more and more research is confirming what many have suspected for years: environment and...
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Parution : 2007-08-26

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Télécharger le livre :  The Adolescent Experience

The Adolescent Experience places the college student at the very heart of the book.The authors engage in a dialogue with the reader that is warm, caring, and often humorous as they write and share material about this time of life.The authors emphasize the role that...
Editeur : Academic Press
Parution : 1999-10-25

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