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This volume of 18 articles provides information about a diversity of issues - recognition, legal codes, evaluation, psychodynamics, treatment, prognosis and outcome. Included are reports on an extensive survey of professional recognition in England and an examination of European criminal law relating to child sexual abuse, theoretical models of psychosexual development within the family and incest as an expression of a dysfunctional family system. Attention is given to special problems of treatment along with reports on three on-going treatment programmes. Two useful features of the book ar.

REDUCING RISKS FOR Mental Disorders -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abstract -- BUILDING THE INFRASTRUCTURE -- EXPANDING THE KNOWLEDGE BASE -- CONDUCTING WELL-EVALUATED INTERVENTIONS -- Contents -- OVERVIEW -- 1 Introduction -- A NEW EMPHASIS ON PREVENTION: OPPORTUNITIES AND STRENGTHS -- OBSTACLES TO PROGRESS -- LOOKING FORWARD -- ORGANIZATION OF THIS REPORT -- REFERENCES -- 2 New Directions in Definitions -- CLASSIFYING PREVENTIVE INTERVENTIONS FOR PHYSICAL ILLNESS -- CLASSIFYING INTERVENTIONS FOR MENTAL DISORDERS -- The Mental Health Intervention Spectrum for Mental Disorders -- Preventive Interventions for Mental Disorders -- MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION -- THE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM IN PRACTICE -- REFERENCES -- LESSONS FROM HEALTH RESEARCH -- 3 Prevention of Physical Illness -- CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE -- SMOKING -- INJURIES -- FINDINGS AND LEADS -- REFERENCES -- 4 The Core Sciences: Contributions and Frontiers -- NEUROSCIENCE -- GENETICS -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY -- FINDINGS AND LEADS -- REFERENCES -- 5 Description of Five Illustrative Mental Disorders -- DATA SOURCES, CONCEPTS, AND METHODOLOGIES USED IN THE DISORDER DESCRIPTIONS -- Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study -- Conceptualization of Onset -- Methods for Analyzing Onset -- ILLUSTRATIVE DISORDERS -- Conduct Disorder -- Depressive Disorders -- Alcohol Abuse and Dependence -- Schizophrenia -- Alzheimer's Disease -- GAPS IN OUR KNOWLEDGE -- Age-Specific Prevalence in Children -- Child Psychiatric Nosology -- Empirical Search for Prodromes -- Co-morbidity -- Transition to Adulthood -- FINDINGS AND LEADS -- REFERENCES -- 6 Risk and Protective Factors for the Onset of Mental Disorders -- ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE -- Biological Risk Factors -- Genetic Vulnerability -- History of Head Trauma -- Medical Risk Factors, Including Thyroid Disorders.