Hyde, Margaret O

Discusses missing children including those who run away or are abducted by strangers or parents and outlines ways to prevent and cope with this increasing problem.

Discusses the causes, symptoms, and treatment of AIDS and examines the advances made in slowing the progress of the disease and controlling some of the opportunistic infections.

Explores the nature of AIDS, its causes, ways of spreading, and effects on the lives of its victims, and discusses how misunderstanding of the disease may complicate the situation as it continues to spread.

Discusses possible causes, symptoms, and remedies of several types of mental illness that affect children and adolescents including autism, depression, schizophrenia, and anorexia nervosa. Also considers a variety of emotional problems that cause withdrawal, fear of school, enuresis, and social manipulation.

Discusses the sexual abuse of children, how they can protect themselves, where they can seek help, the kinds of help available, and how to increase public awareness of this problem.

Leading authorities on drugs discuss the use, abuse, and the effects of marijuana, alcohol, LSD, heroin, cocaine, PCP, and other drugs and the alternatives to drug use.

Discusses violent crime and its victims, including how to understand and help victims and how to reduce the risk of becoming one.

Discusses various feelings and emotions and how to deal with them.

Discusses the sexual abuse of children, how they can protect themselves, where they can seek help, the kinds of help available, and how to increase public awareness of this problem.