Youth Today

Promotion and Prevention in Mental Health: Strengthening Parenting and Enhancing Child Resilience

U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration This report to Congress promotes the aggressive use of research-based mental health interventions, combined...

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School Mental Health: Role of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration [SAMHSA] and Factors Affecting Service Provision

U.S. Government Accountability Office As of August, slightly more than one-quarter of the interventions listed on SAMHSA’s Registry of Evidence-based Programs and...

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Repeat Teen Childbearing: Differences Across States and by Race and Ethnicity

Child Trends Although the teen birth rate reached a record low in 2004, nearly 20 percent of teen births that year were...

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Substance Abuse Treatment Provider Views of ‘Culture’: Implications for Behavioral Health Care in Rural Settings

Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation The provision of culturally competent substance abuse and mental health services calls for behavioral health providers...

Research

What Does Gay Mean? A Survey of Latino Parents’ Perspectives on Bullying, Sexual Orientation and Prejudice

Mental Health America Executive summary available at http://mentalhealthamerica.net/download.cfm?DownloadFile=AAA548B0-1372-4D20-C827D1B06C3F9730 Despite the fact that 95 percent of Latino parents believe that their teens should...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Magical Moments of Change: How Psychotherapy Turns Kids Around

Lenore Terr W.W. Norton & Co. 304 pages. $27.99. The story of Terr’s psychotherapeutic successes and setbacks with one highly traumatized young...

Opinion

The Price of Following Blind Leadership

New figures reveal a disturbing combination we haven’t seen for 40 years: Teenage suicides, serious crimes and drug and alcohol deaths are...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

The Well-Being of Measuring Well-Being

Since the social indicators movement began in the 1970s, there has been explosive growth in efforts to measure the quality of people’s...

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Combination Treatment Most Effective in Adolescents with Depression

A clinical trial of 439 adolescents (ages 12 to 17) with major depression has found that a combination of medication and psychotherapy...

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Adolescent Romantic Relationships as Precursors of Healthy Adult Marriages

Policymakers interested in promoting healthy adult marriages need to understand how adolescent romantic relationships – particularly those of low-income youth – function,...

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2007 Montana Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)

Montana says its 2007 YRBS shows a 45 percent drop in reported methametaphine use among high schoolers from 2005 to 2007, from...

Opinion

Youth Facts vs. Writer’s Fiction

In his writings for Youth Today and other media outlets, Mike Males has taken on a laudable mission: combating erroneous stereotypes of...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Gay Ban Might Get Scouts Evicted

How about this for a rent hike: 20 million percent? That’s what the Boy Scout Council that oversees Philadelphia must pay if...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

States High on Harsh Anti-Meth Ads

A graphic anti-methamphetamine ad campaign that features gory depictions of drug-addled teens, pocked with lesions and freebasing meth – is getting credit...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Press Watch for November 2007

Log on to these news organization’s websites and search for the headline through the site’s search or archive feature. Child Welfare Foster...

Research

Suicide Trends Among Youths and Young Adults 10-24 Years – United States, 1990-2004

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5635a2.htm The CDC rang lots of alarms last month in reporting that suicides by youth...

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Red Families V. Blue Families

The George Washington University Law School/Social Science Research Network Increasing political polarization in the United States is the result of the development...

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