CONTENTS Acknowledgements ... ⅶ Foreword / by J. David Hawkins ... ⅸ Editors ... xiii Contributors ... xv CHAPTER ONE : Introduction / Paula Allen-Meares ; Mark W. Fraser ... 1 CHAPTER TWO : Contributions of Risk Research to the Design of Successful Interventions / Arnold J. Sameroff ; Leslie Morrison Gutman ... 9 CHAPTER THREE : Ethnicity and Culture / Oscar Barbarin ; Terry McCandies ; Cheri Coleman ... 27 CHAPTER FOUR : Gender Differences in Childhood and Adolescence / Cathryn C. Potter ... 54 CHAPTER FIVE : Social Work Practice with Gay and Lesbian Children and Adolescents / John F. Longres ; William S. Etnyre ... 80 CHAPTER SIX : Poverty and Child Development : Promising Interventions / Miriam R. Linver ; Allison Sidle Fuligni ; Magdal ... 106 CHAPTER SEVEN : Prevention and Treatment Strategies Targeting Physical Child Abuse and Neglect / Neil B. Guterman ; Richard A. Embry ... 130 CHAPTER EIGHT : Sexual Abuse of Children and Adolescents / Sandra J. Kaplan ... 159 CHAPTER NINE : School-Based Interventions for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders / K. Richard Young ; Michelle Marchant ; Lynn K. Wi ... 175 CHAPTER TEN : Autistic Spectrum Disorders : Assessment and Intervention / Mark C. Holter ... 205 CHAPTER ELEVEN : Treatment and Early Intervention for Schizophrenia / Carol T. Mowbray ; Debbie Gioia-Hasick ... 229 CHAPTER TWELVE : Depression during the School-Aged Years / Daphna Oyserman ... 264 CHAPTER THIRTEEN : Prevention and Intervention in Youth Suicide / Mark J. Macgowan ... 282 CHAPTER FOURTEEN : What Can Be Done to Prevent and Assist School Dropouts? / Russell W. Rumberger ... 311 CHAPTER FIFTEEN : Prevention and Treatment of Adolescent Drug Abuse / Kenneth W. Griffin ; Gilbert J. Botvin ... 335 CHAPTER SIXTEEN : ADIS/STD Prevention for U.S. Adolescents / Mary Rogers Gillmore ... 356 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN : Lost Childhoods : Risk and Resiliency among Runaway and Homeless Adolescents / Kimberly A. Tyler ; Les B. Whitbeck ... 378 CHAPTER EIGHTEEN : Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting : A Bio-Psychosocial Framework / Jacqueline Corcoran ; Cynthia Franklin ... 398 CHAPTER NINETEEN : Bullying and Peer Victimization in Schools / Ron Avi Astor ; Rami Benbenishty ; Ronald O. Pitn ... 417 CHAPTER TWENTY : Review of Research on Predictors of Youth Violence and School-Based and Community-Based Prevention Approaches / Todd I. Herrenkohl ; Ick-Joong Chung ; Richard F. ... 449 CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE : Adolescent Sex Offenders : Characteristics, Prevention, and Treatment / William D. Murphy ; I. Jacqueline Page ; Melissa ... 477 CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO : Youth Gangs : Prevention and Intervention / James C. Howell ... 493 CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE : Eating Disorders : Prevention and Intervention Strategies with Children and Adolescents / Roslyn B. Binford ; Melissa Pederson Mussell ; Li ... 515 CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR : <B><FONT color ... #0000 Index ... 545