The Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA) screens child populations and identifies those at high risk of mental disorders. It is based on the Child Behavior Checklist or CBCL. More

Anticonvulsants include a range of pharmaceutical interventions used in prevention of epilepsy and other seizures. More

Anxiety disorders occur when normal reactions to stressful events result in the sufferer not being able to cope in everyday life. More

Attachment disorder refers to disturbances in social relationships attributable to a failure to form normal attachments to a primary carer, usually a mother, in infancy. More

Atypical antipsychotics are a second generation of pharmaceutical interventions used to treat a range of mental health problems including schizophrenia, aggression and depression. More

Autism is a complex brain disorder that inhibits a person's ability to communicate and develop social relationships. It is often accompanied by extreme behavioral challenges. More

The Best Evidence Encyclopedia or BEE provides information about the strength of the evidence supporting programs available for all students in school in the form of accessible summaries of systematic reviews. More

Established in 1996 at the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Blueprints for Violence Prevention program monitors the effectiveness of prevention, early intervention and treatment programs in reducing adolescent violent crime, aggression, delinquency, and substance abuse. More

The Campbell Collaboration is an independent, international organization that provides information about the effects of interventions in the social, behavioral and educational arenas. More

In 1996, with a number of influential partners, it began a national initiative that sought out effective violence prevention programs. More

Child Advocacy Centers (CACs) are child-friendly houses or buildings where US criminal investigations into child sexual abuse occur. More

The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) provides a standardized method for assessing 20 areas of children’s competency and functioning and provides an indication of their mental health. More

Services organized but not necessarily provided by health, education, social care, police or youth justice agencies with the purpose of improving children's health or development. They include all agencies working with children, among them purchasers and voluntary and private providers. Following the UK Children Act, 2004 local authorities replaced administrative departments of education and social care with departments of children's services to work closely with health, youth justice and other agencies.

Civil Society refers to co-operative action in communities not directed by the state or other economic interests that is supported by freely arrived at shared interests and values. More

The Cochrane Collaboration is an independent international organization, dedicated to making accurate information about the effects of healthcare widely available. More

Collective efficacy, defined as the normative property of social networks that pursue a common purpose, is a theory based on the work of Rob Sampson and Felton Earls. More

Communities That Care (CtC) is an “operating system” developed by David Hawkins and Richard Catalano from the Social Development Research Group at the University of Washington, Seattle. More

The Comprehensive Spending Review is the process used by UK Treasury (Department of Finance) to link fixed expenditure for each government department to specified improvements in the lives of people living in UK. More

Cortisol is the principal steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex. It regulates carbohydrate metabolism and the immune system and maintains blood pressure.

Diathesis-stress models examine the relationship between a non-biological or genetic predisposition (diathesis) with the environment and life events (stressors) to produce disorders such as schizophrenia. More