Promoting children's emotional well-being:

This text is about strategies to ensure that children maximize their potential and increase the quality of their lives by fostering well-being as a concept inclusive of confidence, empathy, pro-social behaviour, creativity and a sense of achievement, as well as preventing problems. 1: Buchanan: Present issues and concerns; 2: Stewart-Brown: Parenting, well- being, health and disease; 3: Flouri, Buchanan & Bream: In and out of behavioural problems; 4: Katz: Promoting our well-being - Young views; 5: Gardner & Ward: Parent-child interaction and children's well-being. Reducing conduct problems and promoting conscience development; 6: Grimshaw: Parenting programmes. The importance of partnership in research and practice; 7: Baillie, Sylva & Evans: Do intervention programmes for parents, aimed at improving children's literacy, really work?; 8: Wells: Promoting emotional well-being in schools; 9: Hunt: Making and implementing timely legal decisions for children - research on a court sample; 10: Capaldi & Eddy: Improving children's long-term well-being by preventing anti-social behaviour; 11: Buchanan: Messages from the research.