All posts tagged "Mental Health"

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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...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  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...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  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...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity

  www.spotlightonpoverty.org This foundation-sponsored initiative seeks to focus public attention on poverty issues during the presidential campaign and to “encourage candidates to discuss...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  14 States Abstain From Title V

  Fourteen states have now rejected federal formula grants for abstinence-only education, nearly double last year’s number, as the debate over the effectiveness...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Parental Consent Struck Down

  Alaska’s highest court ruled in November that the state’s Parental Consent Act – requiring girls age 16 and younger to obtain parental...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  A Designer Addiction

  New Youth Connections, New York My name is Dee and I’m a recovering junkie. I was hooked on the strong stuff. Ralph...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Tackling Tobacco

  While smoking has decreased significantly among youth since the funding of anti-tobacco programs through the Master Settlement Agreement in 1998, data from...

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  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...