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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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Youth Exposure to Alcohol Advertising on Radio, 2006

Georgetown University, Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth The amount spent by the alcohol industry on radio advertising decreased by 38 percent...

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2006 National Survey on Drug Use & Health: National Results

U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Illicit drug use among youth ages 12 to 17 is at a five-year low,...

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Play Therapy with Children in Crisis

Edited by Nancy Boyd Webb Guilford 489 pages. $48. Seven years ago, Webb published Play Therapy, which was widely adopted among clinicians...

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Laws Loosen for Consensual Sex

Four states recently adjusted their sex offense statutes to allow more leeway for youth who get in legal trouble resulting from consensual...

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Drug Tests Part of the Curriculum at Recovery High

National Public Radio A few dozen public high schools nationwide are trying to educate teens who have hard core drug addictions –...

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Children Who Survive Urban Warfare Suffer from PTSD, Too

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...

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The ‘Atypical’ Dilemma

St. Petersburg Times Doctors are prescribing strong anti-psychotic drugs for thousands of children in Florida, even though the FDA has approved those...

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Young and Out on the Field

The Los Angeles Times Young gay athletes are finding it easier to come out of the closet to what was once a...

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Prospective Associations of Co-Rumination With Friendship and Emotional Adjustment: Considering the Socioemotional Trade-Offs of Co-Rumination

Developmental Psychology, Vol. 43, No. 4 Three psychologists at the University of Missouri-Columbia conducted this study into the effects of co-ruminating, or...

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2007 Kids Count Data Book

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...

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City Asks Gays to Adopt

While adoption by gays is a hot button issue in most of the country, San Francisco appears to be the first jurisdiction...

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Abstinence Ed Fires Back

Walk 10 paces, turn around and draw your conclusions. That’s what abstinence education proponents and comprehensive sex ed proponents have been doing...

On Campus, Help Grows from Tragedy

Alison and Brian: “His friends noticed changes in him,” but didn’t recognize the symptoms of mental illness. The sudden death of a...

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Crazy for Psychology

New Youth Connections, New York (Note: Names have been changed for this story) I went to a psychologist when I was 12....

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Prescription for Depression

LA Youth, Los Angeles I was assigned a therapist when I was 12. Because I was in foster care, the system thought...

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Sex Ed Landscape Shifting in States

Stateline.org After the April release of a congressionally authorized study showing that youth who took abstinence-only classes were just as likely to...

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More Kids Raiding Medicine Cabinets to Get High

The Herald (Everett, Wash.) More communities are trying to confront prescription drug abuse among teens. Teens have relatively easy access to prescription...

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