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Dating Violence, Sexual Violence, and Suicide Attempts Among Urban Teenagers

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine The report examines the relationship between dating violence, lifetime sexual assault and suicide attempts. Researchers found...

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Cigarette Preference Among Youth

American youth continue to show strong preferences for specific cigarette brands – Marlboros, Newports and Camels – according to this survey of...

Research

Assessment of Self-Injurious Thoughts Using a Behavioral Test?

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...

Research

Adolescent First Sex and Subsequent Mental Health

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...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Multicultural Understanding of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology: Implications for Mental Health Assessment

Thomas M. Achenbach and Leslie A. Rescorla The Guilford Press 322 pages, $40. Achenbach and Rescorla integrate international findings to examine the...

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents

Alec L. Miller, Jill H. Rathus and Marsha M. Linehan The Guilford Press 346 pages, $40. An exhaustive and practical presentation of...

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What Do I Say to a Friend Who’s Gay?

Emily Parke Chase Kregel Publications 128 pages, $9.99. The Christian perspective of this book targets teenagers trying to understand a friend’s homosexuality....

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Youth Activities, Substance Use, and Family Income

U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Youth participation in a school, community or faith-based activity of any kind leads to...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Children of Meth Abusers Have Little Access to Help

The State Journal-Register (Springfield, Ill.) Most methamphetamine users and “cookers” are of prime childbearing age – often raising small children in homes...

Guest Opinion Essay

The Youth “Mental Health Crisis” Hoax

In the United States, “action” consists not of taking constructive measures to fix a troubling social problem, but designating a powerless scapegoat...

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An Action Plan for Behavioral Health Workforce Development Strengthening Professional Identity: Challenges of the Addictions Treatment Workforce

U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration These two resources can help mental health and substance abuse professionals organize and strengthen...

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Focal Point: Traumatic Stress/Child Welfare

Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children’s Mental Health The winter 2007 edition of the semiannual magazine Focal Point highlights...

News

Substance Abuse Interventions for Young Offenders

Juvenile and Family Court Journal The article looks at the early success indicators of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Reclaiming Futures initiative...

News

2007 Report: Child and Youth Well-Being Index, 1975-2005

The Foundation for Child Development (FCD) Following an upward trend that peaked in the early 2000s, improvements in the quality of life...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Comes the Darkness, Comes the Light

Vanessa Vega American Management Association 220 pages. $21.95. A look at the dangerous world of self-cutting, a way of suppressing serious emotional...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier