Frontmatter — Preface — Contents — Part I. Theoretical Approaches to Prevention and Intervention — 1. Prevention and Intervention in the Analytical Perspective of Guidance — 2. Observation, Diagnosis, Guidance. A Systems Theoretical View on Intervention — 3. Powerlessness, Politics, and Prevention. The Community Mental Health Approach — 4. The Stress Process and Strategies of Intervention — Part II. Children’s Services and Preschool Programs — 5. Professionalism and Children’s Services — 6. Evidence of Problem Prevention by Early Childhood Education — Part III. Family Empowerment and Parent Involvement — 7. Empowering Families: An Alternative to the Deficit Model — 8. Toward a Theory of Family —School Connections: Teacher Practices and Parent Involvement — 9. Conditions of Family Functioning — 10. Intervention in the Family: The Case of Handicapped Children — Part IV. Problem Behavior in Adolescence — 11. Developmental Transitions and Adolescent Problem Behavior: Implications for Prevention and Intervention — 12. Adolescent Problem Behavior in the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany: Implications for Prevention — 13. Developmental Perspectives on Problem Behavior and Prevention in Adolescence — 14. The Limits and Potential of Social Intervention in Adolescence: An Exemplary Analysis — Part V. Scholastic Achievement and Educational Career Planning — 15. Diagnosis and Intervention in Education and Therapy — 16. Intervention in the Transition from School to Work for Early School Leavers — 17. Social Intervention Strategies in Elite U.S. Secondary Schools — Part VI. Social Intervention and Social Control — 18. Psychological Crime Prevention: Concepts, Evaluations and Perspectives — 19. Alternative Methods of Conflict—Settling and Sanctioning: Their Impact on Young Offenders — 20. Evaluating Residential Treatments for Delinquents: A Cautionary Tale — 21. Preventive Effects of Correctional Intervention: Reeducation and Resocialization of Juvenile Prisoners — 22. Simulating Social Order — Community and Crime Cont — Appendix — 23. The Program of the Special Research Unit ‘Prevention and Intervention in Childhood and Adolescence’ — Author Index — Subject Index