Zero-Missing Non Existing Data: Missing Data Problems in Longitudinal Research and Categorical Data Solutions

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents XI
4. Part One. Diagnosis and Classification of Children with Behavioral Disorders and Handicaps
5. Epidemiology and Classification of Psychiatric Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence 3
6. Empirically Based Assessment of Child and Adolescent Disorders: Implications for Diagnosis, Classification, Epidemiology, and Longitudinal Research 24
7. The Use of a Standardized Assessment Instrument (the Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist) in Longitudinal Epidemiological Research 46
8. Developmental Diagnosis with Pre-School Children 69
9. Labeling Versus Support Diagnosis in Special Education: The Concept of an Intervention- Oriented Diagnostic Strategy for Children With Learning Disabilities 84
10. The Reading Development of Normal and Poor Readers in the First Grade: How Helpful is the Concept of Developmental Stages for the Understanding of Reading Acquisition in German-Speaking Children? 97
11. Issues in Assessment and Intervention with Blind Infants and Children 119
12. Methodological and Conceptual Issues in the Construction of a Developmental Test for Blind Infants and Preschoolers 136
13. Part Two. Risk Factors and Protective Factors in Childhood Development
14. Vulnerability and Resiliency: A Longitudinal Perspective 157
15. Mental and Physical Resiliency in Spite of a Stressful Childhood 173
16. On the Concept of "Invulnerability": Evaluation and First Results of the Bielefeld Project 186
17. Later Adult Life Outcomes of Offenders and Nonoffenders 220
18. Prediction of Writing and Reading Achievement — Some Findings From a Pilot Study 245
19. The Bielefeld Longitudinal Study on Early Identification of Risks in Learning Read and Write: Theoretical Background and First Results 268
20. Language Development and Delays and the Predictors of Later Reading Failure 295
21. Part Three. Methodological Problems in Longitudinal Research
22. Problems of Longitudinal Studies with Children: Practical, Conceptual, and Methodological Issues 313
23. Zero-Missing Non Existing Data: Missing Data Problems in Longitudinal Research and Categorical Data Solutions 336
24. Identifying and Separating Types of Behavior Problems by Latent Class Analysis: Results of a Prospective Study on Pregnancy Course and Child Development 356
25. Part Four. Issues in Prevention, Intervention, and Rehabilitation
26. Prevention of Psychopathology and Maladjustment in Children of Divorce 367
27. The Concept of Social-Pediatric Developmental Rehabilitation 395
28. Prevention and Intervention From the Perspective of Child Psychiatry 405
29. Early Mobility Training of Children Bora Blind — Needs and Prerequisites 416
30. Particle Versus Wave Theories of Learning to Read and Write. Toward a Field Model of Success and Failure in Literacy Acquisition 428
31. Family Variables as Predictors of Differential Effectiveness in Child Therapy 440
32. Problem Intensity and the Disposition of Adolescents to Take Therapeutic Advice 457
33. Author Index 479
34. Subject Index 487