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

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