All posts tagged "Mental Health"

• Learn How Reclaiming Futures Works

  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...

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  The Impact of Laws Requiring Parental Involvement for Abortion: A Literature Review

    Guttmacher Institute State laws that require minors to notify their parents before they receive an abortion do not significantly reduce abortion...

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  How Do You Measure Bad News?

  Child Well-Being Index scores of family economic well-being project a decline through 2010. The scores are based on several federal economic data...

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  Foster Children Medicated Without Consent

  Nearly one in six children in the Florida foster care system who had been prescribed psychotropic medication were given the drugs without...

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  Children in Poverty: Trends, Consequences and Policy Options

  Child Trends Nearly 20 percent of American children and youth are living in poverty - a percentage that has been steadily increasing...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Don’t Blame Abstinence Ed

  The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) recently announced that births to teens in the United States had risen in 2007, for...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Coming Out, Coming In: Nurturing the Well-Being and Inclusion of Gay Youth in Mainstream Society

    Linda GoldmanRoutledge/Taylor & Francis339 pages. $29.95 paperback. Linda Goldman’s passionate advocacy for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth permeates this...

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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) American adolescents (ages 12 to 17) who received messages aimed at preventing drug,...

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  Childhood Poverty, Chronic Stress and Adult Working Memory

  Cornell University This study links chronic stress associated with childhood poverty to decreased brain functioning in key areas. It provides evidence that...

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  Homeland Insecurity

  Every Child Matters Education Fund This new report shows that the United States lags behind many of the world's comparably wealthy democracies...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Newark Plans First Program for LGBT Youth

  Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth in Newark, N.J., have never had a place to go for counseling, mentoring and stress-free...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  A Reason to Live

  Cynthia Salzman Mondell and Allen MondellMedia Projects, Inc. 52 minutes adult version, 32 minutes high school/college version. DVD $199 for universities and...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Mpower

  http://www.mpoweryouth.org Sponsored by Mental Health America, the site harnesses the emotional appeal of music to reach out to youth, with tips on...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Teen Source

  www.teensource.org Intended to inform youths 13 and older about a wide range of sexual health topics, the site uses video testimonials, links...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Free Vibe

  http://www.freevibe.com Set up for the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, this site gives all sorts of...