The Mental Health of Children and Adolescents: An area of global neglect

Advisory Board

Preface

Acknowledgements

1 A Global Programme for Child and Adolescent Mental Health: A Challenge in the New Millennium (Myron Belfer, Helmut Remschmidt, Barry Nurcombe, Ahmed Okasha, and Norman Sartorius).

2 Public Awareness of Child and Adolescent Mental Health: A Review of the Literature (Sam Tyano and Anat Fleischman).

3 The Epidemiology and Burden of Child and Adolescent Mental Disorder (Myron Belfer and Barry Nurcombe).

4 Disseminating Child and Adolescent Mental Health Treatment Methods: An International Feasibility Study (Jose J. Baumeister, John Fayyad, Richard Harrington (deceased), Jack (S.F.) Hung, Kimberly Hoagwood, Peter Jensen, Kelly Kelleher, Laura Murray, Cheryl So; and site directors Alan Apter and Orit Krispin (Tel Aviv, Israel), John Fayyad, MD (Lebanon), Luis Rhode and Paulo Knapp (Porto Alegre, Brazil), and Amira Seif El Din (Alexandria, Egypt)).

5 Prevention of Mental Health Disorders in Children and Adolescents

5.1 The Principles of Prevention in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (Barry Nurcombe).

5.2 Evidence-based Primary Prevention Programs for the Promotion of Mental Health in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Worldwide Review (Martine F. Flament, Hien Nguyen, Howard Schachter, Claudia Furino, Cathy Cuzner, Danuta Wasserman, Norman Sartorius, and Helmut Remschmidt).

5.3 Violence and Trauma: Evidence-based Assessment and Intervention in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review (Ernesto Caffo and Carlotta Belaise).

5.4 School Dropout: A Systematic Worldwide Review Concerning Risk Factors and Preventive Interventions (Ana Soledade Graeff-Martins, Tatyana Dmitrieva, Amira Seif El Din, Ernesto Caffo, Martine F. Flament, Barry Nurcombe, Per-Anders Rydelius, Helmut Remschmidt, and Luis Augusto Rhode).

5.5 School Violence: Epidemiology, Background, and Prevention (Helmut Remschmidt).

6 Preventive Interventions in School Dropout: Three Field Studies

6.1 A Comprehensive Intervention for the Prevention of School Dropout in Brazil (Ana Soledade Graeff-Martins, Sylvia Oswald, Júlia Obst Comassetto, Christian Kieling, Renata Rocha Gonçalves, and Luis Augusto Rhode).

6.2A Comprehensive Program for the Prevention of Dropout in an Egyptian Public School (Amira Seif El Din, M. Azzer, and Doa Habib).

6.3 A Comprehensive Intervention to Prevent School Dropout and

Reduce School Absenteeism in a Public School in a Russian Industrial City (V. Andreyuk, A. Zanozin, and Tatjana Dmitrieva).

Index.