Mental health: Research

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• The Moderating Role of Working Memory Capacity and Alcohol-Specific Rule-Setting on the Relation Between Approach Tendencies and Alcohol Use in Young Adolescents
  Dual process models of alcohol addiction propose that the transition from normative alcohol consumption to heavy drinking is the result of an imbalance in interplay between relatively impulsive or automatic and reflectiv ...
  
  Publisher: Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Physical health, mental health, and behaviour problems among early adolescents in foster care
  Adolescents with chronic illness in the general population are at increased risk of mental health and behaviour problems. Depression is also associated with delinquency. Adolescents in foster care are more at risk for ch ...
  
  Publisher: Child: Care, Health and Development
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Decomposing the Components of Friendship and Friends' Influence on Adolescent Drinking and Smoking
  Friendship networks are an important source of peer influence. However, existing network studies vary in terms of how they operationalize friendship and friend's influence on adolescent substance use. This study uses soc ...
  
  Publisher: Journal of Adolescent Health
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• The Population Cost-effectiveness of Interventions Designed to Prevent Childhood Depression
  Depression in childhood and adolescence is common and often persists into adulthood. This study assessed the population-level cost-effectiveness of a preventive intervention that screens children and adolescents for symp ...
  
  Publisher: Pediatrics
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Gendered pathways in school burnout among adolescents
  The aim of this study is to examine differences in student burnout by gender, time status with two time points before and after an educational transition, and educational track (academic vs. vocational). The definition o ...
  
  Publisher: Journal of Adolescence
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Youths with ADHD with and without tic disorders: Comorbid psychopathology, executive function and social adjustment
  Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and tic disorders (TD) commonly co-occur. Clarifying the psychiatric comorbidities, executive functions and social adjustment difficulties in children and adolescents of AD ...
  
  Publisher: Research in Developmental Disabilities
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Co-occurring conditions and change in diagnosis in autism spectrum disorders
  OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate descriptive characteristics and co-occurring neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions in young children, children, and adolescents with a current and consistent or past but ...
  
  Publisher: Pediatrics
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Deficits in emotion regulation mediate the relationship between childhood abuse and later eating disorder symptoms
  The present study examined the relationship of child maltreatment to both emotion dysregulation and subsequent eating pathology. In an effort to extend previous research, the authors examined the unique impact of childho ...
  
  Publisher: Child Abuse & Neglect
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Risky decision-making: an fMRI study of youth at high risk for alcoholism
  Adolescents with a family history of alcoholism (FHP) are at risk for developing an alcohol use disorder (AUD), and some studies indicate that FHP individuals show deficits in executive functioning. The ability to make a ...
  
  Publisher: Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Looked after children and offending: reducing risk and promoting resilience
  Early entry into care, stable placements and purposeful activity can significantly reduce a child’s risk of turning to crime
  
  Publisher: TACT
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Engaging parents in the family check-up in middle school: longitudinal effects on family conflict and problem behavior through the high school transition
  Adolescence is a time of significant developmental change. During this period, levels of problem behavior that had been relatively innocuous may escalate in the company of peers, with simultaneous reductions in parental ...
  
  Publisher: Journal of Adolescent Health
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Symptoms of mental health problems: children’s and adolescents’ understandings and implications for gender differences in help seeking
  Drawing on focus group data from Scottish school pupils, the authors demonstrate how they understood symptoms of mental health problems and how their characterisations of these symptoms informed their perceptions that ot ...
  
  Publisher: Children & Society
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Doing anger differently: two controlled trials of percussion group psychotherapy for adolescent reactive aggression
  This study evaluates efficacy and effectiveness of ‘Doing Anger Differently’ (DAD), a group treatment for reactively aggressive 12–15 year old males.
  
  Publisher: Journal of Adolescence
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Intergroup contact, attitudes toward homosexuality, and the role of acceptance of gender non-conformity in young adolescents
  This study explored how contact with gay and lesbian persons affects adolescents' attitudes toward them, and whether this association is mediated or moderated by one's acceptance of gender non-conformity
  
  Publisher: Journal of Adolescence
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• A randomized controlled trial testing the effectiveness of a universal school-based depression prevention program in the Netherlands
  The incidence of depressive symptoms increases during adolescence, from 10.0% to 24.5% at age 11 to 15, respectively. Experiencing elevated levels of depressive symptoms increases the risk of a depressive disorder in adu ...
  
  Publisher: BMC Public Health
  Published Date: 2012