Youth Today
Research
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Controversy: What Factors Predict Youth Trouble?
The recent headlines proclaimed the controversial news: Race, poverty, and single-parents are not the irrevocable harbingers of drug abuse, teen pregnancy and...
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Foster Care and Mental Health Mental Health Care Utilization and Expenditures by Children in Foster Care
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...
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Drinking Now, Problems Later Natural Course of Alcohol Use Disorders from Adolescence to Young Adulthood
Paul Rohde, Peter Lewinsohn, Christopher Kahler, John Seeley and Richard Brown Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry January 2001,...
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Linking Spouse and Child Abuse
Emiko Tajima, Ph.D. Child Abuse & Neglect, November 2000, Vol. 24, pp. 1383-98 Free copy from Dr. Tajima at University of Washington...
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Girls and Sports Medical Concerns in the Female Athlete American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Sports Medicine and Fitness Pediatrics
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...
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Striving to Succeed, Daring to Fail
The achievement gap between young black and white Americans is like the Energizer Bunny: It keeps going and going and going. And...
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Another Reason Not to Smoke
Jeffrey Johnson, Ph.D., Patricia Cohen, Ph.D., Daniel Pine, M.D., and colleagues Journal of the American Medical Association November 8, 2000,...
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Teen Love as a Four Letter Word
Special section of Child Maltreatment, November 2000, Vol. 5, No. 4 Guest editors: Candice Feiring and Wyndol Furman Available for $25 from...
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Wake Up and Read This
Board on Children, Youth and Families, National Research Council Mary G. Graham, Editor National Academy Press, 2000 Available free...
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Teen Pregnancy Drops, But Why?
Pregnancy rates among teenagers are at the lowest they’ve been since the government began recording such data in 1976, according to a...
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Girls and Weight Control: Let Them Eat Cake?
Eric Stice, Rebecca Cameron, Chris Hayward, C. Barr Taylor, Joel Killen Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, December 1999, Vol. 67, pgs...
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Does CPS Lead to Incarceration?
Melissa Johnson-Reid and Richard Barth Child Abuse and Neglect, April 2000, Vol. 24, no. 4, pgs. 505-520 Free from Dr. Jonson-Reid, 1...
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Video Violence
Craig A. Anderson, Ph.D., and Karen E. Dill, Ph.D. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology April 24, 2000, Vol 78, No. 4,...
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Guns at Home
Mark Schuster, M..D., Ph.D., Todd Franke, Ph.D., Amy Bastian, MPH, et al. American Journal of Public Health April 2000, Vol. 90, No....
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Girls and Crime
Leslie Acoca Journal of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention October 1999, Vol. VI, No. 1 Free from Juvenile Justice...
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When Little Kids Become Violent Teens
Phyllis Ellickson, Ph.D., and Kimberly McGuigan, Ph.D. American Journal of Public Health, April 2000, Vol. 90, No. 4, pgs. 566-572 Free from...
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Witnessing Violence at Home
With financial support from Microsoft Corporation and Children’s Television Workshop (creators of “Sesame Street”), and with guidance from the latter, the National...
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Drug Court Results: Positive But Spotty
Now that nearly 3,000 youths have gone to juvenile drug courts and the U.S. Justice Department has spent more than $16 million...
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Youth Experiences that Make a Difference for Girls Defining Success:
David Krane and Julia Resnick Girl Scouts of the USA Study Conducted by Louis Harris & Associates, Inc. September 1999 Executive summary...
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The Link Between Violence to Animals and People Protecting Children
A Publication of the American Humane AssociationVol. 15, No. 2, 1999Available for $11 from Robyn Alsop, editor, (303) 792-9417, or children@americanhumane.org. This...
