All posts tagged "Mental Health"

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  A DAREing Rescue

  They had sparred long distance through newspapers and on TV, but they met for the first time over coffee and bagels in...

• Anti-Drug Programs that Work?

  Project Northland                  Developed by University of Minnesota, this program targets sixth- through eighth-graders and seeks to delay the age at which teens...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  STDs Discriminate

  New findings dramatically demonstrate how the spread of sexually transmitted diseases differs by age, gender, race and geography. The U.S. Centers for...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Sex Charges Prompt Youth Group Changes

  An Orthodox Judaism panel investigating teenage sex abuse allegations against a 50-year-old New Jersey rabbi and veteran youth worker blamed “profound errors...

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  The Sexual Victimization of College Women National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice

  This report gives the results of the National College Women Sexual Victimization Survey, conducted by the National Institute of Justice in the...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Not-So-High Times For Teen Drug Use?

  “We are greatly encouraged by the results of the MTF Survey,” said U.S. Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey in a statement on the...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Not-So-High Times For Teen Drug Use?

  “We are greatly encouraged by the results of the MTF Survey,” said U.S. Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey in a statement on the...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Haze Over Youth Anti-Tobacco Lessons

  A study casting doubt on the effectiveness of anti-tobacco programs for youth has done something few would have thought possible: put anti-tobacco...

• Research

  Drinking Now, Problems Later Natural Course of Alcohol Use Disorders from Adolescence to Young Adulthood

  Paul Rohde, Peter Lewinsohn, Christopher Kahler, John Seeley and Richard Brown Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry January 2001,...

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  Girls and Sports Medical Concerns in the Female Athlete American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Sports Medicine and Fitness Pediatrics

  September 2000, Vol. 106, pp. 610-613 Summary version at www.aap.org/advocacy/archives/septath.htm  With all the concern about couch potatoes, let’s start by emphasizing that...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Be Grateful There’s a Choice To Make

    BY ROBIN THOMPSON     Since women began to really stand up for their rights in the ’60s, abortion has been...

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  Child Health USA 2000

  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) This report shows both good and bad trends in the health status and service...

• Research

  Another Reason Not to Smoke

  Jeffrey Johnson, Ph.D., Patricia Cohen, Ph.D., Daniel Pine, M.D., and colleagues   Journal of the American Medical Association   November 8, 2000,...

• Research

  Teen Love as a Four Letter Word

  Special section of Child Maltreatment, November 2000, Vol. 5, No. 4 Guest editors: Candice Feiring and Wyndol Furman Available for $25 from...

• Research

  Wake Up and Read This

  Board on Children, Youth and Families, National Research Council   Mary G. Graham, Editor   National Academy Press, 2000   Available free...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Teen Sex Ad Campaign Pregnant With Criticism

  Catcalls, raspberries, howls of protest and various random drubbings have greeted a provocative new teen sex advertising campaign designed to do what...

• Research

  Teen Pregnancy Drops, But Why?

  Pregnancy rates among teenagers are at the lowest they’ve been since the government began recording such data in 1976, according to a...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  GARY MALLON

  “Let me tell you something, honey. You’re a big queen yourself and you need to come out of the closet.” A fine...

• News

  Making the Case: Linking Youth Development and Positive Psychology

  Now and then you have the unsettling experience of hearing your thoughts come out of someone else’s mouth. This is the experience...

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  Substance Abuse Treatment in Adult and Juvenile Correctional Facilities: Findings from the Uniform Facility Data Set, 1997 Survey of Correctional Facilities

  This report presents the findings from a survey of all adult and juvenile correctional facilities nationwide regarding substance abuse treatment service provided...