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Overcoming the odds : high risk children from birth to adulthood / Emmy E. Werner and Ruth S. Smith.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1992Description: xiv, 280 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0801480183
  • 9780801480188
  • 0801425840
  • 9780801425844
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370.1110996941
LOC classification:
  • HQ792.U5 W39 1992
Contents:
List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Context of the Study -- 3. Ordinary People -- 4. The Resilient Children in Adulthood -- 5. Teenage Mothers in Later Years -- 6. Delinquents with and without Records of Adult Crimes -- 7. Mental Health Problems: Troubled Youths Grown Up -- 8. Stressful Events in Childhood and Youth and Adult Adaptation -- 9. Protective Factors and Adult Adaptation -- 10. Summing Up -- Appendix I -- Tables 1-28 -- Figures A1-A4 -- Appendix II -- Summary of Data Base: Kauai Longitudinal Study -- Summary of Scoring System for Prenatal-Perinatal Complications -- Instruments Used in the 31/32-Year Follow-Up -- Interview -- Questionnaire -- Life Event Checklist -- Scoring System for Ratings of Adult Adaptation -- References -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-267) and index.

List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Context of the Study -- 3. Ordinary People -- 4. The Resilient Children in Adulthood -- 5. Teenage Mothers in Later Years -- 6. Delinquents with and without Records of Adult Crimes -- 7. Mental Health Problems: Troubled Youths Grown Up -- 8. Stressful Events in Childhood and Youth and Adult Adaptation -- 9. Protective Factors and Adult Adaptation -- 10. Summing Up -- Appendix I -- Tables 1-28 -- Figures A1-A4 -- Appendix II -- Summary of Data Base: Kauai Longitudinal Study -- Summary of Scoring System for Prenatal-Perinatal Complications -- Instruments Used in the 31/32-Year Follow-Up -- Interview -- Questionnaire -- Life Event Checklist -- Scoring System for Ratings of Adult Adaptation -- References -- Index.

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