Four states recently adjusted their sex offense statutes to allow more leeway for youth who get in legal trouble resulting from consensual...
National Public Radio A few dozen public high schools nationwide are trying to educate teens who have hard core drug addictions –...
San Francisco Chronicle Eleven-year-old Terra Turner’s 18-year-old brother was shot and killed on a San Francisco street last summer. As the months...
St. Petersburg Times Doctors are prescribing strong anti-psychotic drugs for thousands of children in Florida, even though the FDA has approved those...
The Los Angeles Times Young gay athletes are finding it easier to come out of the closet to what was once a...
Developmental Psychology, Vol. 43, No. 4 Three psychologists at the University of Missouri-Columbia conducted this study into the effects of co-ruminating, or...
Annie E. Casey Foundation www.kidscount.org/sld/databook.jsp The release of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s annual Kids Count Data Book in late July again...
While adoption by gays is a hot button issue in most of the country, San Francisco appears to be the first jurisdiction...
Walk 10 paces, turn around and draw your conclusions. That’s what abstinence education proponents and comprehensive sex ed proponents have been doing...
Alison and Brian: “His friends noticed changes in him,” but didn’t recognize the symptoms of mental illness. The sudden death of a...
New Youth Connections, New York (Note: Names have been changed for this story) I went to a psychologist when I was 12....
LA Youth, Los Angeles I was assigned a therapist when I was 12. Because I was in foster care, the system thought...
Stateline.org After the April release of a congressionally authorized study showing that youth who took abstinence-only classes were just as likely to...
The Herald (Everett, Wash.) More communities are trying to confront prescription drug abuse among teens. Teens have relatively easy access to prescription...
Prevention Science (June, 2007) This study of more than 7,800 high school sophomores from seven states found that boys reported higher levels...
Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine The report examines the relationship between dating violence, lifetime sexual assault and suicide attempts. Researchers found...
American youth continue to show strong preferences for specific cigarette brands – Marlboros, Newports and Camels – according to this survey of...
American Journal of Psychiatry/Harvard University Abstract at http://www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/164/5/820. Mindful of the fact that youth who intentionally injure themselves are often unable or...
American Journal of Sociology/University of Minnesota Available at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?AJS090213PDF. The 1996 Welfare Reform Act and its reauthorization in 2002 provided for federal...
Thomas M. Achenbach and Leslie A. Rescorla The Guilford Press 322 pages, $40. Achenbach and Rescorla integrate international findings to examine the...