Table of Contents
Frontmatter — Preface — Contents — Part One. Diagnosis and Classification of Children with Behavioral Disorders and Handicaps — Epidemiology and Classification of Psychiatric Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence — Empirically Based Assessment of Child and Adolescent Disorders: Implications for Diagnosis, Classification, Epidemiology, and Longitudinal Research — The Use of a Standardized Assessment Instrument (the Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist) in Longitudinal Epidemiological Research — Developmental Diagnosis with Pre-School Children — Labeling Versus Support Diagnosis in Special Education: The Concept of an Intervention- Oriented Diagnostic Strategy for Children With Learning Disabilities — The Reading Development of Normal and Poor Readers in the First Grade: How Helpful is the Concept of Developmental Stages for the Understanding of Reading Acquisition in German-Speaking Children? — Issues in Assessment and Intervention with Blind Infants and Children — Methodological and Conceptual Issues in the Construction of a Developmental Test for Blind Infants and Preschoolers — Part Two. Risk Factors and Protective Factors in Childhood Development — Vulnerability and Resiliency: A Longitudinal Perspective — Mental and Physical Resiliency in Spite of a Stressful Childhood — On the Concept of "Invulnerability": Evaluation and First Results of the Bielefeld Project — Later Adult Life Outcomes of Offenders and Nonoffenders — Prediction of Writing and Reading Achievement — Some Findings From a Pilot Study — The Bielefeld Longitudinal Study on Early Identification of Risks in Learning Read and Write: Theoretical Background and First Results — Language Development and Delays and the Predictors of Later Reading Failure — Part Three. Methodological Problems in Longitudinal Research — Problems of Longitudinal Studies with Children: Practical, Conceptual, and Methodological Issues — Zero-Missing Non Existing Data: Missing Data Problems in Longitudinal Research and Categorical Data Solutions — Identifying and Separating Types of Behavior Problems by Latent Class Analysis: Results of a Prospective Study on Pregnancy Course and Child Development — Part Four. Issues in Prevention, Intervention, and Rehabilitation — Prevention of Psychopathology and Maladjustment in Children of Divorce — The Concept of Social-Pediatric Developmental Rehabilitation — Prevention and Intervention From the Perspective of Child Psychiatry — Early Mobility Training of Children Bora Blind — Needs and Prerequisites — Particle Versus Wave Theories of Learning to Read and Write. Toward a Field Model of Success and Failure in Literacy Acquisition — Family Variables as Predictors of Differential Effectiveness in Child Therapy — Problem Intensity and the Disposition of Adolescents to Take Therapeutic Advice — Author Index — Subject Index
