adolescents
Preventing substance abuse in adolescents: A review of high-impact strategies.
Substance abuse has been an intractable societal concern in the US for more than half...
Measuring collective efficacy among children in community-based afterschool programs: Exploring pathways toward prevention and positive youth development
Citation: Smith EP, Osgood DW, Caldwell L, Hynes K, Perkins DF: Measuring collective efficacy among...
Epigenetic vestiges of early developmental adversity: Childhood stress exposure and DNA methylation in adolescence
Fifteen-year-old adolescents (N = 109) in a longitudinal study of child development were recruited to...
Cumulative-genetic plasticity, parenting and adolescent self-regulation
Background:  The capacity to control or regulate one’s emotions, cognitions and behavior is central to...
A reinforcement model of conduct problems in children and adolescents: Advances in theory and intervention Conduct Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence
Conduct disorders are very common conditions and the most frequent reason for clinical referrals to...
Mindfulness-based approaches with children and adolescents: A preliminary review of current research in an emergent field.
Interest in applications of mindfulness-based approaches with adults has grown rapidly in recent times, and...
Timing matters: long term effects of adversities from prenatal period up to adolescence on adolescents’ cortisol stress response
Objective Altered cortisol response is a vulnerability marker for a variety of stress-related diseases and...