Some research provides new information that surprises us, while other studies help us think about why a well-accepted assumption is true. Results...
As winter sets in, there is less emphasis on outdoor activities, so it is important to know about new research showing that...
Sometimes research results sound a lot like what our parents or grandparents taught us. Other times research can warn us that products...
This month’s Research Watch gives some of the details behind the headlines questioning the effectiveness of counseling after traumatic events. Two other...
Because September is back-to-school month, it’s a good time to think about schools. Two of the three new studies below focus on...
Sometimes research seems to prove the obvious, but there are times when research challenges what we think we know and has the...
This month’s Research Watch provides information about the effectiveness of drug prevention programs, the impact of role models on youth and new...
A focus on studies that help youth workers identify the strengths in even the most at-risk youth, but also remind staff to be...
This month’s Research Watch has some good news about teen pregnancy and potentially good news about foster care. Unfortunately, there are worrisome...
When we think of the dangers facing children, most adults think of violence, illegal drugs, drunk driving, teen pregnancy and AIDS. We...
Lice inspections have become a fact of life in schools and children’s programs across the country, with children required to leave school...
Research Watch readers know that college campuses are not the safe havens that many adults envision, at least, not if you’re a...
There are plenty of studies showing a link between violent TV and children’s aggressive behavior, but a new study makes the unusual...
Aggressive behavior of children in child care made front page headlines last month, but an equally important – and possibly related –...
AIDS is a growing threat to women, including teenage girls. A new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
The debate about the impact of TV violence continues (see Research Watch, Feb. 2001), but there is growing evidence that TV viewing...
September 2000, Vol. 106, pp. 610-613 Summary version at www.aap.org/advocacy/archives/septath.htm With all the concern about couch potatoes, let’s start by emphasizing that...
Emiko Tajima, Ph.D. Child Abuse & Neglect, November 2000, Vol. 24, pp. 1383-98 Free copy from Dr. Tajima at University of Washington...
Paul Rohde, Peter Lewinsohn, Christopher Kahler, John Seeley and Richard Brown Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry January 2001,...
Jeffrey Harman, Ph.D., George Childs, Kelly Kelleher, M.D., M.P.H. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, November 2000, Vol. 154 Free copy from...