Improving children's lives Book

	Preface
Pt. 1	Epidemiology of Distress and Risk	1
1	Barriers to the Primary Prevention of Mental, Neurological, and Psychosocial Disorders of Children: A Global Perspective	3
2	Life on the Brink	37
3	An Epidemiological Study of Mental Disorders During Early Childhood in the Soviet Union	49
4	One Little Girl	57
Pt. II	Sources of Stress: Parenting, Poverty, Sexism, War	61
5	Improving Children's Lives: The Case for Primary Prevention in Ghana	63
6	Prevention of Mental Illness in Children in Third World Countries: A Pakistani Perspective	73
7	The Impact of Women's Health and Status on Children's Health and Lives in the Developing World	83
8	Children Born from Unwanted Pregnancies: Prevention of Psychological Subdeprivation	97
9	Making a Dangerous World More Tolerable for Children: Implications of Research on Reactions to Nuclear War Threat, War, and Disaster	107
10	Endangered Children in Thailand: Third World Families Affected by Socioeconomic Changes	129
Pt. III	Multilevel Systems Approaches to Prevention	147
11	Primary Prevention of Mental Disorders and Mental Health Promotion in Europe: Developments and Possibilities for Innovation	151
12	Empowerment and Social Change: Health Promotion Within the Healthy Cities Project of WHO--Steps Toward a Participative Prevention Program	167
13	The Dutch Way of Prevention	177
14	A Multimodal Approach to Prevention: A Review of India's Integrated Child Development Scheme	191
15	Huckleberry Finn and Street Youth Everywhere: An Approach to Primary Prevention	200
Pt. IV	Educational Systems Interventions	213
16	Two School-Based Approaches to Promoting Children's Social Competence	217
17	Personality Development and Academic Improvement for Schoolchildren in India	235
18	Quality of Life in Families With Mentally Retarded Children: Promoting Independence and Acceptance	245
19	Fostering Parental Competence in Poland	253
Pt. V	Prevention and Reduction of Aggression and Conduct Disorders	261
20	Television Violence: A Proactive Prevention Campaign	263
21	Victimization Among Schoolchildren: Intervention and Prevention	279
22	New Directions in Research in the Prevention of Conduct Disorder	296
Pt. VI	Reflections on Youth	309
23	Saving Children Means Social Revolution	311
24	Infecting Our Children With Hostility	330
25	Youth as Resources: A New Paradigm in Social Policy for Youth	334
26	Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: A Parent's Perspective	342
27	Mexico's Challenge: Facing a Growing Youth Population	349
Pt. VII	Looking Ahead	355
28	The Rights of the Child: Progress Toward Human Dignity	357
29	U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child: Unofficial Summary of Articles	359
	Name Index	368
	Subject Index	378
	About the Contributors	389