All posts tagged "Mental Health"

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Being Different; Staying Safe

  Walla Walla Union-Bulletin Once a month, in a downtown Walla Walla, Wash., coffee shop, about a dozen lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Tiffany Carson

  Tiffany Carson Co-DirectorTalk About It! Spartanburg, S.C.(864) 529-5430Talkaboutit1@gmail.com Age: 32 Salary: $30,000 About Talk About It!: This program, run by the Mt....

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  Online “Predators” and Their Victims: Myths, Realities, and Implications for Prevention and Treatment

  University of New Hampshire The media-created perception that sex offenders use trickery and physical force to molest children they meet online is...

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  The Quality of Teen Relationships Influences Decisions about Contraception

  Child Trends For youth, having fewer sexual relationships correlates with more frequent use of contraception, find researchers who surveyed 4,556 unmarried, sexually...

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  National Center on Sexual Behavior and Youth

  http://www.ncsby.org NCSBY, which provides information and training about the management of adolescent sex offenders and children with sexual behavior problems, uses its...

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  Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Parents and Their Children in Our Nation’s K-12 Schools

  Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network Click to see a larger chart. There are more than 7 million lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  New Focus on Smoking Among Gay Youth

  Ohio has become the latest state to increase its focus on smoking by gay youth, whose smoking rate is about double that...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Giant Upset for Anti-Drug Ad?

  Mixed Reviews: Some say the feds fumbled this ad featuring a drug dealer talking to parents; others disagree. How’s this for standing...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Some States Reconsider Youth Sex Laws

  Stateline States throughout the nation have stopped sentencing youths who are convicted of having consensual sex to the same punishments as sexual...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Anti-Drug Programs Get Off Drugs

  Dando Furenza a la Familia: Only one session focuses on substance abuse and its effect on the body. Every now and then...

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  State of the World’s Children 2008

  UNICEF Each day about 26,000 children under age 5, most of whom live in developing regions, die from preventable causes. UNICEF is...

• Research

  Teens Who Work Are More Likely to Smoke

  RAND Available at http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/2008/RAND_RB9321.pdf Public health campaigns to reduce teen smoking have shown positive results in recent years, particularly those that are...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Counseling Troubled Boys: A Guidebook for Professionals

  Edited by Mark S. Kiselica, Matt Englar-Carlson, Arthur M. HorneRoutledge304 pages. $34.95. In response to the recent explosion of public concern about...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Drug War Facts, 6th Edition

  Edited by Douglas A. McVayCommon Sense for Drug Policy278 pages. $14.95. Since President Nixon declared a War on Drugs in 1971, opinions...

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  Predictors of Sexual Risk Behaviors among Newly Homeless Youth

  UCLA AIDS Institute Newly homeless youth are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior if they stay in non-family settings –...

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  The Effect of Sexual Abstinence on Educational Attainment

  University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center Teaching abstinence in schools has sometimes been justified on the grounds that abstaining...

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  The Thought That Counts: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager’s Experience with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

  Jared Douglas Kant, Martin Franklin, Linda Wasmer AndrewsOxford University Press, with the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands and the Annenberg Public Policy...

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  Chasing the High: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager’s Experience with Substance Abuse

  Kyle Keegan, Howard Moss, Beryl Lieff BenderlyOxford University Press, with the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands and the Annenberg Public Policy Center...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Kick Butts Day 2008

  www.kickbuttsday.org The next Kick Butts Day (KBD) – a national day of anti-tobacco activism – will be April 2. This site helps...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  NIDA Networking Project

  http://nnp.drugabuse.gov The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) launched this site to facilitate information- sharing and collaboration among substance abuse researchers, practitioners...