Social Intervention: Potential and Constraints

ISBN-13: 9783110112566 / Angielski / Twarda / 1987 / 409 str.

Klaus Hurrelmann; Franz-Xaver Kaufmann; Friedrich L. Sel

Spis treści

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I. Theoretical Approaches to Prevention and Intervention -- 1. Prevention and Intervention in the Analytical Perspective of Guidance -- 2. Observation, Diagnosis, Guidance. A Systems Theoretical View on Intervention -- 3. Powerlessness, Politics, and Prevention. The Community Mental Health Approach -- 4. The Stress Process and Strategies of Intervention -- Part II. Children's Services and Preschool Programs -- 5. Professionalism and Children's Services -- 6. Evidence of Problem Prevention by Early Childhood Education -- Part III. Family Empowerment and Parent Involvement -- 7. Empowering Families: An Alternative to the Deficit Model -- 8. Toward a Theory of Family -School Connections: Teacher Practices and Parent Involvement -- 9. Conditions of Family Functioning -- 10. Intervention in the Family: The Case of Handicapped Children -- Part IV. Problem Behavior in Adolescence -- 11. Developmental Transitions and Adolescent Problem Behavior: Implications for Prevention and Intervention -- 12. Adolescent Problem Behavior in the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany: Implications for Prevention -- 13. Developmental Perspectives on Problem Behavior and Prevention in Adolescence -- 14. The Limits and Potential of Social Intervention in Adolescence: An Exemplary Analysis -- Part V. Scholastic Achievement and Educational Career Planning -- 15. Diagnosis and Intervention in Education and Therapy -- 16. Intervention in the Transition from School to Work for Early School Leavers -- 17. Social Intervention Strategies in Elite U.S. Secondary Schools -- Part VI. Social Intervention and Social Control -- 18. Psychological Crime Prevention: Concepts, Evaluations and Perspectives -- 19. Alternative Methods of Conflict-Settling and Sanctioning: Their Impact on Young Offenders -- 20. Evaluating Residential Treatments for Delinquents: A Cautionary Tale -- 21. Preventive Effects of Correctional Intervention: Reeducation and Resocialization of Juvenile Prisoners -- 22. Simulating Social Order - Community and Crime Cont -- Appendix -- 23. The Program of the Special Research Unit "Prevention and Intervention in Childhood and Adolescence" -- Author Index -- Subject Index

O autorze

Franz-Xaver Kaufmann is Professor emeritus for Social Policy and Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. He studied law, economics and sociology in Zurich, St. Gall and Paris. He is the doyen of the sociology of social policy in Germany and has been awarded honorary doctorates and prizes, including the Preller Prize for Social Policy and the Schader Prize for Applied Social Science.