The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter articles from March 2004

The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter archives from March 2004

Self-injury: is this troubling behavior a growing problem in adolescents? Wounds, scars and the visibility of self-injury.
March 1, 2004... Self-injury (also known as self-mutilation and self-harm) has become a more visible mental health issue for adolescents in the past decade. Many Internet chat boards and web-based forums contain wrenching examples of reasons given by teens who...

Girls with eating disorders likely to abuse alcohol, drugs: national report examines eating disorders.
March 1, 2004... The first comprehensive examination of the link between substance abuse and eating disorders revealed that up to 50 percent of individuals with eating disorders abuse alcohol or illicit drugs, compared to 9 percent of the general population,...

... Restrictions on movies containing smoking.(Keep Your Eye On)
March 1, 2004... Teenage anti-smoking activists in Canada have asked Ontario government officials to assign a "restricted" rating on movies that show tobacco use, reports the Toronto Star. The rating would prevent people under the age of 18 from seeing movies...

... Results from national sex education study.(Keep Your Eye On)
March 1, 2004... Although there may be some disconnect between the breadth of sex education Americans want taught and what is actually taught in many places, parents whose children have taken sex ed generally like their school's program, according to the...

... Anxious children can benefit from CBT.(Keep Your Eye On)
March 1, 2004... In order to determine whether individual and family characteristics of children with anxiety disorders who take psychotropic medications differ from those that are unmedicated and whether there is a differential response to...

Self-injury in teens: what to look for and how to get help.
March 1, 2004... * "I cut myself as a way to deal with the pain and frustration in my life." (female, age 19) * "[Self-injury] makes me feel relaxed and in charge of myself." (female, age 14) * "I get so angry and hateful sometimes that I don't know...

Choosing aggressive friends may predict problems.(What's New in Research)
March 1, 2004... Researchers designed a study to investigate the influence of two different types of peers on children's externalizing and internalizing problems: those that the child claimed as friends (self-chosen), and those that claimed the child as a...

Ethnic differences in teenage driving after drinking.(What's New in Research)
March 1, 2004... Young men of Latin American ethnicity are significantly more likely to drink and drive, or to ride in a car with a drunk driver, than are teens of other ethnic backgrounds, according to an article published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical...

FDA panel recommends warning labels on possible SSRI/suicide link.
March 1, 2004... Stronger warning labels on selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants may be coming soon. That's the interim solution recommended by the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee...

The foster care system: can't live with it, can't live without it.(Commentary)
March 1, 2004... Most professionals working with children in the United States have had first hand experience dealing with the foster care system; and few are happy with it. Over half a million children are in foster care at any given time, and it's safe to say...