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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...

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...

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...

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...

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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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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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

► Reports

Youth Activities, Substance Use, and Family Income

U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Youth participation in a school, community or faith-based activity of any kind leads to...

News