All posts tagged "Mental Health"

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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...

• Research

  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...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  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...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  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...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  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....

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  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...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  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...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  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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  Gender Similarities and Differences in the Association Between Risk and Protective Factors and Self-Reported Serious Delinquency

  Prevention Science (June, 2007) This study of more than 7,800 high school sophomores from seven states found that boys reported higher levels...

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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...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  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...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  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...

• Opinion

  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...