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Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health

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Volume 15 Issue 1, 2003
Contents

Review

Open adoption: a review of the literature with recommendations to adoption practitioners

Loraine Townsend       

1

Abstract

 

Research Papers

Social contexts, age and juvenile delinquency: a community perspective

Catherine L Ward and James E Laughlin 

13

Abstract

Prevalence and attitudinal predictors of child sexual offending in a non-forensic sample of South African high school males

Thandekile S Magojo and Steven J Collings 

27

Abstract

The usefulness of commercially available ‘culture fair’ tests in the assessment of educational success in Grade 1 Black pupils in South Africa — an explorative study

André Venter and Amina Bham     

33

Abstract

Health actions and health promotion among a sample of rural Black South African children

Supa Promtussananon and Karl Peltzer  

39

Abstract

 

Clinical Perspectives

Culture and infancy: a critical examination

Mark Tomlinson   

45

Abstract

Treatment for perinatal disturbance

Joan Raphael-Leff     

49

Abstract

 

Book Reviews

Counselling and Coping by Kerry Gibson, Leslie Swartz and Rob Sandenbergh

Reviewed by Alison Moultrie 

55

Steering by the Stars: Being Young in South Africa by Mamphela Ramphele

Reviewed by Wanjiru Mukoma 

57

 


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