Little is known about how justice-involved youth are coping with stress related to COVID-19. This study examined changes in psychological distress and antisocial behavior indicators among 557 youths on probation who completed two assessments during pre-COVID-19 conditions post-COVID-19 conditions. Drawing from Agnew’s General Strain Theory, the used multivariate latent growth models examine: (a...

Special and general educators need to be well informed about the mental health problems of youth because significant proportions of students can experience social and emotional problems that interfere with learning, yet few students with mental health problems receive school-based treatment in programs designed specifically for youth with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD; Adelman & Taylo...

Emerging research suggests that antisocial behavior in youth is linked to abnormal brain white matter microstructure, but the extent of such anatomical connectivity abnormalities remain largely untested because previous Conduct Disorder (CD) studies typically have selectively focused on specific frontotemporal tracts. This study aimed to replicate and extend previous frontotemporal diffusion te...

Introduction Conduct disorder is one of the most common psychiatric disorders of children and adolescents between the ages of four and 16 (Shamsie 2001). Conduct disorders are prevalent among 5-10% of the children and adolescents ages 8-16, diagnosed in late childhood or early adolescent years (Hill 2000). Conduct disorder is more common among boys than girls, with studies indicating that the r...

BACKGROUND Multisystemic Therapy (MST) is an intensive, short, family- and community-based treatment for serious antisocial behaviour and delinquency in youth. It is an emerging intervention for serious juvenile delinquents. However, conclusive evidence on the balance between costs and effects is limited and in fact non-existent for the Netherlands. The aim of this protocol is to describe the d...

a r t i c l e i n f o The importance of friends during the developmental periods of childhood and adolescence is widely accepted and there is reason to believe that deviant peers play an important role in influencing the experiences and outcomes of young people aging out of foster care. This article uses Latent Class Analysis to explore the role that deviant peers play in the lives of these you...

The primary purpose of the present study was to examine support for the inclusion of relational aggression (RAgg) alongside physical aggression (Agg) and rule-breaking behaviors (RB) as a subfactor of antisocial behavior (ASB). Caregiver reports were collected for 1,087 youth (48.9% male) ages 6-18. Results indicated that all three subfactors of ASB demonstrated substantial loadings on a genera...

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Childhood maltreatment is known to be a risk factor for a range of later problems, but much less is known about adolescent maltreatment. The present study aims to investigate the impact of adolescent maltreatment on antisocial behavior, while controlling for prior levels of problem behavior as well as sociodemographic characteristics. METHODS Data are from the Rochester Y...