This work brings together the results of studies of child services from diverse countries and cultures and covers a broad array of topical issues and social work interventions, including adolescent emotional health, children of substance abusers, childhood depression and teenage suicide, children's weight and physical activity, language development in autistic children, and much more. Chapters include a survey of the number of children living with substance-abusing parents in the UK, a study which helped identify several ways in which schools address adolescent emotional health issues, a review of a program that supports parents of young people with suicidal behavior, an examination of the role that child protective services prevention efforts play in delinquency prevention and intervention, and more.

CONTENT: New Estimates of the Number of Children Living with Substance Misusing Parents:Results from UK National Household Surveys • Supporting Adolescent Emotional Health in Schools:A Mixed Methods Study of Student and Staff Views in England • Depressive Symptoms from Kindergarten to Early School Age:Longitudinal Associations with Social Skills Deficits and Peer Victimization • Exploring the Impact of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative on Trends in Exclusive Breastfeeding • Perception of Neighborhood Safety and Reported Childhood Lifetime Asthma in the United States (U.S.):A Study Based on a National Survey • Environmental Factors Influence Language Development in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders • Interactions of Socioeconomic Position with Psychosocial and Environmental Correlates of Children's Physical Activity:An Observational Study of South Australian Families • Associations Among Parental Feeding Styles and Children's Food Intake in Families with Limited Incomes • A Pilot Study Evaluating a Support Programme for Parents of Young People with Suicidal Behavior • Assessment of Intensity, Prevalence and Duration of Everyday Activities in Swiss School Children:A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Accelerometer and Diary Data • The Specificity and the Development of Social-Emotional Competence in a Multi-Ethnic-Classroom • Adolescents' Experience of Comments About Their Weight—Prevalence, Accuracy and Effects on Weight Misperception • Children's Liking and Wanting of Snack Products:Influence of Shape and Flavour • Preventing Delinquency Through Improved Child Protection Services • Parents' Assessment of Parent-Child Interaction Interventions—A Longitudinal Study in 101 Families • Index

This new book explores a variety of physical, mental, and lifestyle challenges faced by community populations, including homelessness, community health promotion, nutrition intervention, smoking trends among certain populations, mental health issues among different age and gender groups, substance abuse, domestic violence, contraception, and more. Studies in the book cover a number of important health issues, such as promoting chlamydia screening, class-based nutrition education, exercise and physical activity among children and adults, mental health problems, postpartum depression among women, factors influencing cognition, intimate partner violence, contraception methods, and more.

CONTENTS: Pathways into Homelessness:Recently Homeless Adults Problems and Service Use Before and After Becoming Homeless in Amsterdam • Promoting Chlamydia Screening with Posters and Leaflets in General Practice— A Qualitative Study • Evaluation of Effectiveness of Class-Based Nutrition Intervention on Changes in Soft Drink and Milk Consumption Among Young Adults • Smoking Prevalence Trends in Indigenous Australians, 1994-2004:A Typical Rather than an Exceptional Epidemic • Collecting Household Water Usage Data:Telephone Questionnaire or Diary? • Development of Scales to Assess Children's Perceptions of Friend and Parental Influences on Physical Activity • Preliminary Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Association Between Socio-Environmental Factors and Suicide • Cycling and Walking to Work in New Zealand, 1991-2006:Regional and Individual Differences, and Pointers to Effective Interventions • Adolescent-Parent Interactions and Attitudes Around Screen Time and Sugary Drink Consumption:A Qualitative Study • Women with Postpartum Depression:"My Husband" Stories • Challenges at Work and Financial Rewards to Stimulate Longer Workforce Participation • Worry as a Window into the Lives of People Who Use Injection Drugs:A Factor Analysis Approach • Effect of Sunlight Exposure on Cognitive Function Among Depressed and Non-Depressed Participants:A REGARDS Cross-Sectional Study • Safe Using Messages May Not Be Enough to Promote Behaviour Change Amongst Injecting Drug Users Who Are Ambivalent or Indifferent Towards Death • Factors Associated with Attitudes Towards Intimate Partner Violence Against Women:A Comparative Analysis of 17 Sub-Saharan Countries • Psychological Well-being, Physical Impairments and Rural Aging in a Developing Country Setting • Use of Modern Contraception by the Poor Is Falling Behind • Index

Social work in geriatric services deals with the care of the elderly in many facets. This new book addresses many of the important topics in social work with the elderly, including the prevalence of chronic disease in the elderly, conducting research with older people, cognitive functioning and social integration, exercise for the elderly, suicide and depression in the elderly, smoking cessation for elderly clients, health screening, and more.

CONTENTS: Chronic Disease Prevalence and Care Among the Elderly in Urban and Rural Beijing, China • Challenges to Conducting Research with Older People Living in Nursing Homes • Association Between Subjective Memory Complaints and Health Care Utilisation:A Three-Year Follow Up • Cognitive Function, Social Integration and Mortality in a U.S. National Cohort Study of Older Adults • Magnitude of Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing in Germany Among Older Patients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder • Social Vulnerability, Frailty and Mortality in Elderly People • Impact of Exercise in Community-Dwelling Older Adults • Social Participation and Independence in Activities of Daily Living:A Cross Sectional Study • Age-Related Attenuation of Dominant Hand Superiority • Are Sedatives and Hypnotics Associated with Increased Risk of Suicide in the Elderly? • Mental Rotation of Faces in Healthy Aging and Alzheimer's Disease • Preventing Falls in Older Multifocal Glasses Wearers by Providing Single-Lens Distance Glasses:The Protocol for the VISIBLE Randomized Controlled Trial • Emotional Stress as a Trigger of Falls Leading to Hip or Pelvic Fracture—A Case-Crossover Study Among Elderly People • Health Status Transitions in Community-Living Elderly with Complex Care Needs:A Latent Class Approach • Effectiveness of a Mobile Smoking Cessation Service in Reaching Elderly Smokers and Predictors of Quitting • Discomfort and Agitation in Older Adults with Dementia • Factors Influencing Elderly Women's Mammography Screening Decisions • Do Social Networks Affect the Use of Residential Aged Care Among Older Australians? • more • Index