Introduction Studies have shown that, compared to other youth within their same social class, a higher proportion of youth with serious emotional disturbance (SED) are arrested during adolescence and young adulthood (e. Most of these studies have examined youth from mental health or special education services. Knowledge about criminal justice (CJ) involvement among these particular youth is fai...

Eliciting professionals’ experiences of current drug treatment programmes can lead to improvements these youth-centred through the involvement concerned youths’ families. We explored perceived barriers amongst professionals concerning interventions incorporating parents or guardians responsible for justice-involved youth with substance use disorders. conducted semi-structured in-depth interview...

Parental involvement in schools is a national priority for both educators and researchers to promote the successful schooling of contemporary youth. Contemporary parental involvement research has produced some promising findings, but parental involvement efforts with inner-city African Americans are currently limited by problems of research methodology and program foci. Certain research studies...

1 Research suggests participation in youth sport does not guarantee physical activity (PA) 2 guidelines are met. Studies indicate few children achieve recommended levels of moderate3 to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) during their youth sport involvement, and habitual 4 levels of MVPA are below the recommended 60 minutes per day. Informed by self5 determination theory, this study examined whe...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association of youth and caregiver HIV status, and other contextual and social regulation factors with youth mental health. METHOD Data were from two longitudinal studies of urban youth perinatally infected, affected, and unaffected by HIV (N = 545; 36% PHIV+ youth; 45.7% HIV+ caregivers). Youth mental health was measured using the Child Behavior Checklist, the Child ...

the aim of this study was to examine the relationship between organizational culture and organizational citizenship behavior in ministry of sport and youth. this descriptive study was conducted by correlation method as a field. the population consisted of all employees who were working in ministry of sport and youth (n=300). due to the limited number of population, census sampling method was us...

Most studies of bullying behavior have been conducted with general populations during childhood and early adolescence. Although incarcerated youth are at increased risk for bullying others, incarcerated youth in the United States have rarely been studied regarding their bullying behavior prior to incarceration. Understanding the psychological and antisocial correlates of strong-arm bullying pri...

A WARM WATCHFUL EYE: PARENTAL EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANDMONITORING IN MULTISYSTEM THERAPY FOR YOUTH WITH DIABETESbyDANA MAYAUGUST 2012Advisor:Dr. Annmarie CanoMajor:Clinical PsychologyDegree:Master of ArtsThe purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which changes inparenting behaviors, in particular monitoring diabetes care completion and...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Physical fighting and gambling are common risk behaviors among adolescents. Prior studies have found associations among these behaviors in adolescents but have not examined systematically the health and gambling correlates of problem-gambling severity amongst youth stratified by fight involvement. METHODS Survey data were used from 2,276 Connecticut high-school adolescents...