Development and prevention of behaviour problems [electronic resource] : from genes to social policy / edited by Richard E. Tremblay, Marcel A.G. van Aken and Willem Koops.

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TextPublication details: Hove [England] ; New York : Psychology Press, 2009.Description: xi, 266 p. : illISBN:

9780203868706 (e-book : PDF)

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Conduct disorders in children -- Prevention

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Electronic books.

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1. Research on the development and prevention of behaviour problems : a fundamental change still hard to grasp for most investigators / Richard E. Tremblay, Marcel A.G. Van Aken and Willem Koops -- 2. How gene-environment interactions shape biobehavioural development : lessons from studies with rhesus monkeys / Stephen J. Suomi -- 3. Epigenetics and behaviour / Moshe Szyf ... [et al.] -- 4. Maternal smoking, genes and adolescent brain and body : the Saguenay Youth Study / T. Paus ... [et al.] -- 5. The development of chronic physical aggression : genes and environments matter from the beginning / Richard E. Tremblay -- 6. Personality in children and adolescents : development and consequences / Marcel A.G. Van Aken -- 7. A developmental perspective on sex differences in aggressive behaviours / Sylvana M. Cäaotãae -- 8. Intergenerational transmission of risk for antisocial behaviour / Sara Jaffee -- 9. Policy implications of present knowledge on the development and prevention of physical aggression and violence / Marianne Junger ... [et al.] -- 10. From child development to human development / Jacques Van der Gaag -- 11. Inconvenient truths : behavioural research and social policy / Anne C. Petersen.

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