All posts tagged "Mental Health"

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Habla Con Tus Hijos

  http://www.hablacontushijos.org This new site marks the launch of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America’s campaign to engage Spanish-speaking parents in the effort...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Seda’s Story: A Memoir

    Edited by Bonnie MacLachlanSumach Press135 pages. $18.95 paperback. Recognizing Seda’s “gift for writing,” Professor Bonnie MacLachlan mentored her sensitive Persian-Canadian student...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Vernon Forrest, Boxer and Champion for Kids, Killed

    Vernon Forrest, a former world welterweight and junior middleweight boxing champion who was shot to death during a robbery in Atlanta...

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  My mom’s addiction hurt me, but we’ve found a way to be close

    Rise, New York When I was little, I would sit in my room and wonder why my life was not like...

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  America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2009

    Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics An annual federal interagency report shows a few small changes in the well-being...

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  A Video Essay on Teenage Grief

  Hospice Volunteer Services of Addison CountyMcMulti Production, distributed by Fanlight Productions75 minutes. DVD $249. When sisters Amanda and Meghan were in elementary...

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  Individual and Social Influences on Progression to Daily Smoking During Adolescence

    American Academy of Pediatrics Adolescents whose friends and parents smoke are at greater risk of progressing from merely experimenting with cigarettes...

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  Fathering with Multiple Partners Associated with Poor Outcomes in Early Childhood

    Child Trends Children whose fathers have offspring with multiple partners experience increased behavioral problems and poorer physical health early in life,...

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  Fathering with Multiple Partners Associated with Poor Outcomes in Early Childhood

    Child Trends Children whose fathers have offspring with multiple partners experience increased behavioral problems and poorer physical health early in life,...

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  Major Depressive Episode and Treatment among Adolescents

    U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Less than half of the estimated 2 million American youths who experienced a...

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  Youth Development Approach: Turning Crisis into Opportunity

    National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) HIV and STD health education programs that promote improved well-being are more...

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  Kids Having Kids: Economic Costs and Social Consequences of Teen Pregnancy

  Edited by Saul D. Hoffman and Rebecca A. Maynard The Urban Institute Press448 pages. $34.50 paperback. Despite a 36 percent drop between...

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  How I Am (Wie Ich Bin)

  Ingrid Demetz, Caroline Leitner, Daniel Mazza Fanlight Productions49 minutes. DVD $249. These words appear on the screen as outstretched hands catch snowflakes:...

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  America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2009

  Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics An annual federal inter-agency report shows a few small changes in the well-being of...

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  Anyone interested in learning about how the Reclaiming Futures model works should check into the July 9 webinar that will be hosted...

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  FDA Advisory Committee OKs Marketing Use of Three Psych Meds for Youth

  An expert panel for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the marketing of three psychotropic medications for use by...

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  FDA Committee to Rule on Psych Meds for Youths

  The Food and Drug Administration’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee will vote next week on whether to allow three psychotropic medications to be...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Treating Childhood Behavioral and Emotional Problems: A Step-by-Step, Evidence-Based Approach

  Edited by Andrew R. EisenThe Guilford Press427 pages. $50 hardcover or e-book. In this first clinician training manual to be organized according...

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  Exposure to Substance Use Prevention Messages and Substance Use Among Adolescents: 2002 to 2007

    U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) SAMHSA’s annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health Report shows slight...

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  Children Living with Substance-Dependent or Substance-Abusing Parents: 2002 to 2007

    U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Five years of face-to-face interviews with thousands of parents led the federal...