Children's services in the developing world /
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| Imprint: | Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate, c2009. |
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| Description: | xxvii, 383 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The library of essays in child welfare and development The library of essays in child welfare and development. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7916637 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. Catastrophe, War and Disease
- The impact of war on the mental health of children: a Salvadoran study
- School and neuropsychological performance of evacuated children in Kyiv 11 years after the Chernobyl disaster
- Psychological distress amongst AIDS-orphaned children in urban South Africa
- Part II. Coping with Poverty and Poor Health
- How do carers of disabled children cope? The Ugandan perspective
- Cultural teaching: the development of teaching skills in Maya sibling interactions
- Beginning street life: factors contributing to children working and living on the streets of Khartoum Sudan
- Part III. Coping with Ordinary Stressors
- Socioeconomic causes of child labor in urban Nigeria
- Conceptions of success: their correlates with prosocial orientation and behaviour in Chinese adolescents
- Depressive symptoms among rural Bangladeshi mothers: implications for infant development
- Part IV. Young People's Perception of Risk
- Perceptions of child labour among working children in Ibadan Nigeria
- Attitudes toward family obligation among adolescents in contemporary urban and rural China
- Where the boys are: attitudes related to masculinity, fatherhood and violence toward women among low-income adolescent and young adult males in Rio de Janeiro Brazil
- Future expectations of Brasilian street youth
- Part V. Cultural Influences
- Attitudes and practices of breastfeeding mothers regarding fasting in Ramadan
- Change and continuity: childbirth and parenting across 3 generations of women in the United Arab Emirates
- The relationship between monogamous/polygamous family structure and the mental health of Bedouin Arab adolescents
- Part VI. Level of Risk and Impairment to Health and Development
- Sexual abuse during childhood and adolescence among Nicaraguan men and women: a population-based anonymous survey
- Cigarette smoking among schoolboys in Beijing China
- Psychosocial determinants of behaviour problems in Brazilian preschool children
- Social factors associated with child mental health problems in Brazil: cross sectional survey
- Post-traumatic stress reactions in children of war
- War exposure and maternal reactions in the psychological adjustment of children from Bosnia-Hercegovina
- The secular trends in height and weight of Turkish schoolchildren during 1993-2003
- The prevalence and associations of psychiatric disorder in children in Kerala, South India
- Illness incidence and health seeking behaviour among street children in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan - a qualitative study
- Poverty, child undernutrition and morbidity: new evidence from India
- The prevalence of psychiatric disorders among 5-10 year olds in rural, urban and slum areas in Bangladesh: an exploratory study
- Part VII. Intervention and Evaluation
- Why don't children complete primary school? A case study of a low-income neighbourhood in Delhi
- Effect of a participatory intervention with women's groups on birth outcomes in Nepal: cluster-randomised controlled trial
- Countdown to 2015: will the millennium deve
