Today social media has created a stir in the world, but been born with advent of internet, if there was no internet today, then hardly nowadays is magic speaking heads youth especially and its effect also affecting more youth. Today's have become crazy about they cannot live without it. The Internet heartbeat media. beat stops when walk would originated, role important advancing In today's time...

Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT), an emerging treatment for anxiety disorders, is thought to modify underlying, stable patterns of attention. Therefore, ABMT research should take into account the impact of attention bias stability on attention training response, especially in pediatric populations. ABMT research typically relies on the dot-probe task, where individuals detect a prob...

The aim of this study was to compare callous-unemotional (CU) traits versus the multidimensional psychopathy construct in their ability to predict future and stable antisocial behavior. At baseline, a community sample of 996 Cypriot 12-year old adolescents (52% girls) completed measures that tap conduct problems (CP) and psychopathic traits, including CU. CP, aggression, and substance use were ...

The Borderline Personality Disorder Features Scale for Children (BPFSC) is currently the only dimensional measure specifically developed to assess borderline features in children and adolescents. Few studies have investigated this measure for its concurrent validity and concordance between youth self-report and parent-report versions. To this end, the current study had two aims: (1) to investig...

OBJECTIVE To examine the co-occurrence of witnessing partner violence with child maltreatment and other forms of victimization. METHOD Data are from the National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violence (NatSCEV), a nationally representative telephone survey of the victimization experiences of 4,549 youth aged 0-17. RESULTS Witnessing partner violence (WPV) is very closely associated with ...

Studies have shown that 50%–70% of overweight teenagers become overweight adults. Some of the health costs of being overweight include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and heart disease. Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the United States. We examined 246 American Indian teenagers and found that 41% were overweight. This number is much higher than the number of n...

This paper examines the Digital Youth Network as a model for developing youths’ digital literacy through the fusion of in-school and out-of-school new media-based learning activities. Introduction When the 6 graders of today enter adulthood in 2018 what will it mean to be a productive, informed and literate citizen? We contend that being literate in 2018 will require the need to fluidly use mul...

Stress sensitivity may be one process that can explain why some genetically at-risk individuals are more susceptible to some types of stress-reactive psychopathologies. Dysregulation of the limbic-hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (LHPA) axis, including cortisol reactivity to challenge, represents a key aspect of stress sensitivity. However, the degree of stability over time among youth, especiall...

Resilience theory provides a framework for studying and understanding how some youths overcome risk exposure and guides the development of interventions for prevention using a strengths-based approach. In this article, we describe basic concepts of the theory, such as promotive factors, and distinguish assets and resources that help youths overcome the negative effects of risk exposure. We also...