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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe entire volume is a remarkable engaging, readable, and comprehensive compilation of selected topics of the recent advances in understanding risk and resilience factors in the field of child mental health. It is well written and well edited....a scholarly yet readable, interesting, and accessible summary of our current science and clinical expertise in the field of risk and resilience. -- February 2008 * Journal Of Clinical Psychiatry *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Identifying Genes Underlying hild and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders Chapter 2 The Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Cortisol, DHEA, and Psychopathology Chapter 3 Promoting Children's Adjustment: Parenting Research from the Perspective of Risk and Protection Chapter 4 Child Abuse and Negelct: A Mental Health Perspective Chapter 5 Resiliency in COnditions of War and Military Violence: Preconditions and Developmental Processes Chapter 6 School Influences on Child and Adolescent Mental Health