Successful Prevention and Youth Development Programs Across Borders
From a European Perspective This book charts territory that is profoundly important, and yet rarely fully understood. The authors have attempted a task that has relevance to the widest possible range of professionals working with children and adolescents.
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Successful Prevention and
Youth Development Programs
Across Borders
Laura Ferrer-Wreder The Pennsylvania State University-Capital College Middletown, Pennsylvania
Häkan Stattin Örebro University Örebro, Sweden
Carolyn Cass Lorente George Washington University Washington, D. C.
Jonathan G. Thbman Florida International University Miami, Florida
Lena Adamson
Swedish National Board 0/ Health and Welfare Stockholm, Sweden
Springer-Science+Business Media, LLC
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
ISBN 978-1-4613-4800-9
ISBN 978-1-4419-9120-1 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-9120-1
©2004 Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York in 2004 Softcover reprint ofthe hardcover 1st edition 2004 1098765432 A c.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress All rights reserved No pan of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work.
The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, Centre for Evaluation of Social Services, and the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care provided the impetus and financial sponsorship for the writing of this book. The authors gratefully acknowledge their contribution.
Preface From a European Perspective This book charts territory that is profoundly important, and yet rarely fully understood. The authors have attempted a task that has relevance to the widest possible range of professionals working with children and adolescents. In describing and assessing the fields prevention and promotion they have performed an immense service to researchers in this field, but also to practitioners across the spectrum, from mental health nurses and doctors to teachers and psychologists, from social work professionals to psychiatrists and youth counselors. There are two other key elements that should be emphasized from the outset. The first is that the approach in this book is truly multi-disciplinary, with the authors making a genuine attempt to draw upon knowledge and practice derived from all the relevant disciplines. The second element which makes this book so important is that the authors have worked across countries, to ensure that work in the field of intervention from both North America and from Europe should be included. This is as welcome as it is refreshing. There appear to be so many barriers to true collaboration between the two continents, and so many examples of either North American or European social scientists appearing blind to what is going on "across the border" that the approach taken here should be wholeheartedly commended. This book is essentially a review, but a rather special review. It takes as its subject programmes of
