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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Alcohol/drug use"”.
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Children and the Law: How Does Early Contact with Law Enforcement Predict Severity and Frequency of Offending Later in Life?
… categories. Mental Health, Age of First Contact, Alcohol/Drug Use and Violence in the Home were predictors for different offence types for males and females in the under 12 sample. In the over 12 sample the following predictors emerged: Alcohol/Drug Use; Age of First Contact; and Child Welfare …
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Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument Long-Term Outcomes and Scale Stability
<p>The Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument-2 (MAYSI-2; Grisso & Barnum, 2006) was developed in 1998 to offer an efficient measure for identifying adolescents within the juvenile justice system in need of further psychiatric evaluation, treatment, or specialized care. Since the instrument's …
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A study of the association of non-structured school days with daily detainee population counts
… athletics, employment, academic failure, alcohol/drug use, peer relationships, family status, family relationships, economic status, race/ethnicity, and gender on rural daily detainee population counts for non-structured days. Comparisons were made for public school year (SY) and summer …
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Exploring the Relationships Between Perceived Health Self-Efficacy, Coping and Health-Promoting Behaviors Among Non-Substance Abusing Vs. Substance Abusing Patients With Hiv Disease
… health. Given that many HIV patients have alcohol/drug use histories, this research project also explores differences between substance-abusing HIV patients and non-substance abusers with respect to health-promoting behaviors. Pearson-product moment correlations indicated that greater …
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Adolescent substance use and family dynamics
… were manifested in adolescents classified as nonusers, users, and/or abusers of alcohol/drugs. Two hundred and thirty-seven adolescents responded to written questionnaires including the Alcohol and Drug Use Index, a reduced form of the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales (FACES …
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Intergenerational Patterns of Sexual Risk Among Adolescents and Their Mothers
… maternal age of sexual initiation and adolescent alcohol/drug use. </p><p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> Similarities between maternal sexual risk and adolescent sexual risk exist with maternal sexual risk predicting their adolescents' sexual risk. In addition, parent-adolescent sexual …
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Transportation trauma and psychological morbidity: Anxiety, depression, PTSD and perceived control in a hospitalized sample.
… The goals of this study were: 1) to use a questionnaire as opposed to a typical diagnostic interview, 2) to confirm that psychological distress is present in currently hospitalized transportation-related collision survivors, 3) to confirm that different types of distress co-occur, 4) …
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A multiple goals/normative approach to family communication surrounding young adults' substance use problems: explicating parents' and siblings' communication challenges and strategies
Recent evidence suggests that substance use can be a pervasive problem for young adults (individuals aged 18-40), with detrimental effects on their employment, health, and relationships. Although family members are often implicated in the etiology of substance use related disorders, research has …