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This volume is one in a continuing series of publications sponsored by the Banff Inter national Conferences on Behavioural Science. The conferences have been held each spring since 1969 in Banff, Alberta, Canada. They serve the purpose of bringing together out standing behavioral scientists and professionals in a forum where they can present and dis cuss data related to emergent issues and topics. Thus, the International Conferences, as a continuing event, have served as an expressive "early indicator" of the developing nature and composition of behavioral science and scientific application. Distance, schedules, and restricted audience preclude wide attendance at the confer ences. Consequently, the publications have equal status with the conferences proper. They are not, however, simply publications of the papers presented at the conference. Presenters at the Banff Conferences are required to write a chapter specifically for the forthcoming book, separate from their presentation and discussion at the conference itself. The original conference had as its theme "Ideal Mental Health Services." The policy consciously adopted at that conference, and followed ever since, was to identify for the pre sentation of each year's theme those behavioral researchers who could best identify the state of the art. In 1969, the conference faculty were Nathan Azrin, Ogden Lindsley, Gerald Pat terson, Todd Risley, and Richard Stuart. The conference topics for the first 19 years were as follows: "Ideal Mental Health Services" 1969: I.
List of contents
1: Early Adolescence: Behavior Problems, Stressors, and the Role of Family Factors.- 2: Epidemiology of Behavioral and Emotional Disorders of Adolescence: Implications for Treatment, Research, and Policy.- 3: Risk-Taking Behavior in Adolescence.- 4: Attention Deficits, Impulsivity, and Hyperactivity With or Without Conduct Problems: Relationships to Delinquency and Unique Contextual Factors.- 5: A Multisystemic Approach to the Treatment of Serious Delinquent Behavior.- 6: Empirical Bases for Integrating School- and Family-Based Interventions Against Early Adolescent Substance Abuse.- 7: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa: What Knowledge of Diagnosis and Pathogenesis Has Taught About Treatment.- 8: Strategic Adaptations of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Anorexic and Bulimic Adolescents and Their Families.- 9: Suicide in the Young: Implications for Policy and Programming.- 10: Effective Caregiver Behavior in Working With Suicidal Adolescents.- 11: A Cognitive-Behavioral Model for the Treatment of Social-Communicative Deficits in Adolescents with Autism.- 12: Severe School-Related Behavior Problems in Adolescents: The Use of a Home-Based Interpersonal Treatment Model With Parents as Mediators.- 13: Towards a Unified Perspective on Human Service Delivery Systems: Application of the Teaching-Family Model.- 14: Adolescent Mental Health Promotion: Policy and Practice.
Summary
Based on the proceedings of the XX Banff International Conference on Behavioural Science, held in Banff, Alberta, Canada, March 20-24, 1988
