Children at Risk

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part One. Diagnosis and Classification of Children with Behavioral Disorders and Handicaps -- Epidemiology and Classification of Psychiatric Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence / Remschmidt, Helmut -- Empirically Based Assessment of Child and Adolescent Disorders: Implications for Diagnosis, Classification, Epidemiology, and Longitudinal Research / Achenbach, Thomas M. -- The Use of a Standardized Assessment Instrument (the Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist) in Longitudinal Epidemiological Research / Verhulst, Frank C. -- Developmental Diagnosis with Pre-School Children / Kastner-Koller, Ursula / Deimann, Pia -- Labeling Versus Support Diagnosis in Special Education: The Concept of an Intervention- Oriented Diagnostic Strategy for Children With Learning Disabilities / Eggert, Dietrich -- The Reading Development of Normal and Poor Readers in the First Grade: How Helpful is the Concept of Developmental Stages for the Understanding of Reading Acquisition in German-Speaking Children? / Klicpera, Christian -- Issues in Assessment and Intervention with Blind Infants and Children / Warren, David H. -- Methodological and Conceptual Issues in the Construction of a Developmental Test for Blind Infants and Preschoolers / Brambring, Michael -- Part Two. Risk Factors and Protective Factors in Childhood Development -- Vulnerability and Resiliency: A Longitudinal Perspective / Werner, Emmy E. -- Mental and Physical Resiliency in Spite of a Stressful Childhood / Tress, Wolfgang / Reister, Gerhard / Gegenheimer, Lutz -- On the Concept of "Invulnerability": Evaluation and First Results of the Bielefeld Project / Lösel, Friedrich / Bliesener, Thomas / Köferl, Peter -- Later Adult Life Outcomes of Offenders and Nonoffenders / Farrington, David P. -- Prediction of Writing and Reading Achievement - Some Findings From a Pilot Study / Valtin, Renate -- The Bielefeld Longitudinal Study on Early Identification of Risks in Learning Read and Write: Theoretical Background and First Results / Skowronek, Helmut / Marx, Harald -- Language Development and Delays and the Predictors of Later Reading Failure / Stevenson, Jim -- Part Three. Methodological Problems in Longitudinal Research -- Problems of Longitudinal Studies with Children: Practical, Conceptual, and Methodological Issues / Schneider, Wolfgang -- Zero-Missing Non Existing Data: Missing Data Problems in Longitudinal Research and Categorical Data Solutions / Eye, Alexander von -- Identifying and Separating Types of Behavior Problems by Latent Class Analysis: Results of a Prospective Study on Pregnancy Course and Child Development / Ehlers, Theodor / Remer, Herbert -- Part Four. Issues in Prevention, Intervention, and Rehabilitation -- Prevention of Psychopathology and Maladjustment in Children of Divorce / Caplan, Gerald -- The Concept of Social-Pediatric Developmental Rehabilitation / Hellbrügge, Theodor -- Prevention and Intervention From the Perspective of Child Psychiatry / Specht, Friedrich -- Early Mobility Training of Children Bora Blind - Needs and Prerequisites / Jansson, Gunnar -- Particle Versus Wave Theories of Learning to Read and Write. Toward a Field Model of Success and Failure in Literacy Acquisition / Brügelmann, Hans -- Family Variables as Predictors of Differential Effectiveness in Child Therapy / Mattejat, Fritz / Remschmidt, Helmut -- Problem Intensity and the Disposition of Adolescents to Take Therapeutic Advice / Seiffge-Krenke, Inge -- Author Index -- Subject Index