Background Most psychiatric disorders present symptom patterns that cause severe
impairment on the emotional, cognitive and social level. Thus, adolescents who suffer from a …

Punitive school discipline deploys surveillance, exclusion, and corporal punishment to deter
or account for perceived student misbehavior. Yet, education and legal scholarship suggests …

Objective: Substance use initiation during early adolescence is associated with later
development of substance use and mental health disorders. This study used various …

In this study, 85 maltreated foster children and 56 nonmaltreated community children (M
age= 3–6 years) were assessed across kindergarten and first grade to examine the …

BACKGROUND: Children born into poverty face many challenges. Exposure to poverty
comes in different forms, and children may also transition into or out of poverty. In this study …

Context Psychiatric disorders are prevalent among incarcerated juveniles. Most juveniles
eventually return to their communities, where they become the responsibility of the …

Few prospective studies have examined school mobility in children in foster care. This study
described the school moves of 86 such children and 55 community comparison children …

Research Findings: School readiness is a strong predictor of adjustment in elementary
school and beyond. Children in foster care are at particular risk for academic and social …

Purpose The self-medication hypothesis suggests people may develop Alcohol Use
Disorder (AUD) or Non-Alcohol Substance Use Disorder (NA-SUD) following PTSD as a …

Young foster children have invariably faced a variety of risks that are strongly linked to long-
term deficits in functioning across multiple developmental domains. Despite these risks …