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Author Werner, Emmy E.

Title Overcoming the odds : high risk children from birth to adulthood / Emmy E. Werner and Ruth S. Smith
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1992

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 MELB  371.967 Wer/Oto  AVAILABLE
Description xiv, 280 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. The Context of the Study -- 3. Ordinary People -- 4. The Resilient Children in Adulthood -- 5. Teenage Mothers in Later Years -- 6. Delinquents with and without Records of Adult Crimes -- 7. Mental Health Problems: Troubled Youths Grown Up -- 8. Stressful Events in Childhood and Youth and Adult Adaptation -- 9. Protective Factors and Adult Adaptation -- 10. Summing Up -- Appendix I. Tables 1-28. Figures A1-A4 -- Appendix II. Summary of Data Base: Kauai Longitudinal Study. Summary of Scoring System for Prenatal-Perinatal Complications. Instruments Used in the 31/32-Year Follow-Up. Interview. Questionnaire. Life Event Checklist. Scoring System for Ratings of Adult Adaptation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-267) and index
Subject Children with social disabilities -- Hawaii -- Kauai -- Longitudinal studies.
Children -- Hawaii -- Kauai -- Longitudinal studies.
Children with social disabilities -- Hawaii -- Kauai -- Longitudinal studies.
Children -- Hawaii -- Kauai -- Longitudinal studies.
Life change events -- Hawaii -- Kauai -- Longitudinal studies.
Life change events -- Hawaii -- Kauai -- Longitudinal studies.
Author Smith, Ruth S., 1923-
LC no. 91023415
ISBN 0801425840
0801480183