Youth Today
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► Reports
Gender Similarities and Differences in the Association Between Risk and Protective Factors and Self-Reported Serious Delinquency
Prevention Science (June, 2007) This study of more than 7,800 high school sophomores from seven states found that boys reported higher levels...
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Federal Resources on Missing and Exploited Children
Federal Agency Task Force for Missing and Exploited Children The fifth edition of this federal directory compiles a list of agencies and...
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Dating Violence, Sexual Violence, and Suicide Attempts Among Urban Teenagers
Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine The report examines the relationship between dating violence, lifetime sexual assault and suicide attempts. Researchers found...
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Cigarette Preference Among Youth
American youth continue to show strong preferences for specific cigarette brands – Marlboros, Newports and Camels – according to this survey of...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Failure to Copy Right
Martinez: “The community colleges still won’t take the type of people that CET will take.” Replicating successful program models remains one of...
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Research
Assessment of Self-Injurious Thoughts Using a Behavioral Test?
American Journal of Psychiatry/Harvard University Abstract at http://www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/164/5/820. Mindful of the fact that youth who intentionally injure themselves are often unable or...
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Research
Adolescent First Sex and Subsequent Mental Health
American Journal of Sociology/University of Minnesota Available at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?AJS090213PDF. The 1996 Welfare Reform Act and its reauthorization in 2002 provided for federal...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Who Cares for Our Children: The Child Care Crisis in the Other America
Valerie Polakow Teachers College Press 240 pages, $19.95. A careful, provocative analysis of the heartbreaking trials of low-income families in need of...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
College Rules! How to Study, Survive, and Succeed in College
Sherrie Nist-Olejnik, Ph.D., and Jodi Patrick Holschuh, Ph.D. Ten Speed Press 304 pages, $14.95. One of the biggest challenges as a student...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Cool Colleges for the Hyper-Intelligent, Self-Directed, Late Blooming, and Just Plain Different
Donald Asher Ten Speed Press 287 pages, $21.95. A Princeton Review for the average teenage space cadet. As the title would indicate,...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Keeping It Real
Heather Jamison with Henry J. Rogers Kregel Publications 152 pages, $10.99. A colorful guide that will attract younger girls to its faith-based...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Physical Activity and Health of Hong Kong Youth
David P. Johns and Koenraad J. Lindner The Chinese University Press 254 pages, $27. Written by professionals for clinicians, medical practitioners and...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Extreme Economics
Keen Babbage Rowman and Littlefield Education 187 pages, $27.95. Aimed at educators, this book outlines what children and teenagers need to know...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Naked Truth About Your Money
Bill DeShurko Alpha Books 320 pages, $16.95. Young adults face lots of temptations – and many of them aren’t cheap. In an...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Multicultural Understanding of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology: Implications for Mental Health Assessment
Thomas M. Achenbach and Leslie A. Rescorla The Guilford Press 322 pages, $40. Achenbach and Rescorla integrate international findings to examine the...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents
Alec L. Miller, Jill H. Rathus and Marsha M. Linehan The Guilford Press 346 pages, $40. An exhaustive and practical presentation of...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
What Do I Say to a Friend Who’s Gay?
Emily Parke Chase Kregel Publications 128 pages, $9.99. The Christian perspective of this book targets teenagers trying to understand a friend’s homosexuality....
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Book Reviews
Why ‘Adolescence’ Was a Harmful Invention
By Robert EpsteinQuill Driver Books, March 2007450 pages, $24.95 “Adolescence” is a bonanza for youth programming. Without America’s doctrine that we must...
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Grants
Grants Awarded for July-August 2007
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Flint, Mich. (810) 238-5651 www.mott.org • Whaley’s Children Center, Flint, Mich., $73,566 for capacity building. • Genesee Chamber...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Federal Youth Shops Shifted
The U.S. Administration for Children and Families (ACF) has moved several functions to a reorganized Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB), which...
