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