Michael Brambring & Friedrich Lösel 
Children at Risk [PDF ebook] 
Assessment, Longitudinal Research and Intervention

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 – Empirically Based Assessment of Child and Adolescent Disorders: Implications for Diagnosis, Classification, Epidemiology, and Longitudinal Research – The Use of a Standardized Assessment Instrument (the Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist) in Longitudinal Epidemiological Research – Developmental Diagnosis with Pre-School Children – Labeling Versus Support Diagnosis in Special Education: The Concept of an Intervention- Oriented Diagnostic Strategy for Children With Learning Disabilities – 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? – Issues in Assessment and Intervention with Blind Infants and Children – Methodological and Conceptual Issues in the Construction of a Developmental Test for Blind Infants and Preschoolers – Part Two. Risk Factors and Protective Factors in Childhood Development – Vulnerability and Resiliency: A Longitudinal Perspective – Mental and Physical Resiliency in Spite of a Stressful Childhood – On the Concept of ‘Invulnerability’: Evaluation and First Results of the Bielefeld Project – Later Adult Life Outcomes of Offenders and Nonoffenders – Prediction of Writing and Reading Achievement — Some Findings From a Pilot Study – The Bielefeld Longitudinal Study on Early Identification of Risks in Learning Read and Write: Theoretical Background and First Results – Language Development and Delays and the Predictors of Later Reading Failure – Part Three. Methodological Problems in Longitudinal Research – Problems of Longitudinal Studies with Children: Practical, Conceptual, and Methodological Issues – Zero-Missing Non Existing Data: Missing Data Problems in Longitudinal Research and Categorical Data Solutions – Identifying and Separating Types of Behavior Problems by Latent Class Analysis: Results of a Prospective Study on Pregnancy Course and Child Development – Part Four. Issues in Prevention, Intervention, and Rehabilitation – Prevention of Psychopathology and Maladjustment in Children of Divorce – The Concept of Social-Pediatric Developmental Rehabilitation – Prevention and Intervention From the Perspective of Child Psychiatry – Early Mobility Training of Children Bora Blind — Needs and Prerequisites – Particle Versus Wave Theories of Learning to Read and Write. Toward a Field Model of Success and Failure in Literacy Acquisition – Family Variables as Predictors of Differential Effectiveness in Child Therapy – Problem Intensity and the Disposition of Adolescents to Take Therapeutic Advice – Author Index – Subject Index